Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s When That Great Ship Went Down, and Fatal Flower Garden feature on The Harry Smith Project: Anthology Of American Folk Music Revisited, a 2-CD/2-DVD box set culled from a series of concerts staged by Hal Willner that took place in London, New York and Los Angeles between 1999 and 2001, paying tribute to Harry Smith and his influential Anthology.
In 1952 renowned musicologist, filmmaker and painter, Harry Smith went through his vast collection of blues, old-time country, Cajun, and gospel 78s to compile the groundbreaking Anthology Of American Folk Music box set, which had a profound influence on musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen.
Gavin’s featured in an additional bonus clip on the latest DVD of RTE’s candid camera show ‘Naked Camera‘. In the clip you see Gavin being picked up by a rather odd taxi driver.
“Gavin Friday, along with Mr. Fixer the taxi driver, on a never broadcasted part of The Naked Camera
Unfortunately, he cops on too quickly that he’s just has been set up…amost. “The One that got away”. 2007.”
DVD Times reviews the new ‘Music’ edition of the Romeo + Juliet DVD. Reviewer Eamonn McCusker writes:
‘And it is that score that one remembers most, in particular how well it fits the film and how, were it not for Gavin Friday, The Butthole Surfers and composers Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, one wouldn’t be at all impressed by MTV-meets-Shakespeare logic of its making.’
A new DVD re-release of Baz Luhrman’s film Romeo + Juliet – dubbed the “Music Edition” – highlights the music of the film.
The Romeo + Juliet soundtrack including Gavin Friday’s Angel as well as songs by Radiohead, Garbage, Des’Ree and Stina Nordenstam was a huge hit in the 90′s, selling 8 million copies.
