Actor Cillian Murphy (Cork, 1976) has worked with Gavin Friday on two films: Kirsten Sheridan’s “Disco Pigs” (1996) in which Gavin had a cameo as Paschal Stankard in a pub scene, and Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast on Pluto” (2005) in which Gavin played glam rock band leader Billy Hatchett.
Cillian on Gavin: “He was in Disco Pigs, actually, had a small part and I remember saying ‘God, this guy is fantastic’ and then Neil thought of casting him in that role and he just… eats it up, you know, he’s wonderful.”
Gavin also worked on the music of both films. He composed the score for Disco Pigs with Maurice Seezer and recorded two songs for Breakfast on Pluto, Sweet’s “Wig Wam Bam” and his duet with Cillian, a cover of Lee Hazlewood’s “Sand”.
Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s unreleased score for Disco Pigs, a 2001 Irish film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Enda Walsh, adapted from Walsh’s 1996 play of the same name. Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy star as Cork teenagers who have a lifelong, but unhealthy friendship that is imploding as they approach adulthood. Gavin Friday has a part in the movie. He would later play opposite Cillian Murphy again in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast On Pluto.
Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Gallagher, Charles Bark, Eleanor Methven, Eoghan Harris
Film synopsis: Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but in bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. They are also partners in crime, with an appetite for recklessness, exploration and destruction. But days before their 17th birthday the perfect balance of their world begins to shift. Pig’s sexual awakening and increasing jealousy begins to threaten their private universe. Unable to contemplate the loss of Runt, Pig’s unpredictable nature spirals out of control in a trail of violence and destruction. The inseparable are about to separate, and which one will survive will depend on which one can break free.
The Kirsten Sheridan film Disco Pigs (2001) for which Gavin and Maurice did the score is out on DVD this month. You can pre-order it from BlackStar. Gavin has a little cameo in this film too. No soundtrack album was released for this film, so this DVD is the currently the only way to hear the score.
“Sing you sinners, dance you Saints
Anyway your body ‘n’ souls inclined.
Laugh you lovers at those who hate
in each an Adam and Eve entwined…” Gavin Friday - Saint Divine
Actor Cillian Murphy (Cork, 1976) has worked with Gavin Friday on two films: Kirsten Sheridan’s “Disco Pigs” (1996) in which Gavin had a cameo as Paschal Stankard in a pub scene, and Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast on Pluto” (2005) in which Gavin played glam rock band leader Billy Hatchett. 
