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Video: In the Name of the Father – Gavin Friday and Bono
Video for In the Name of the Father by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer. Lyrics for In the Name of the Father by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer.
Trailer for the film In the Name of the Father (director: Jim Sheridan)
Gavin Friday and Hal Willner score Abel Ferrara movie
Gavin Friday has teamed up with producer Hal Willner to create the score for ‘Chelsea on the Rocks‘, a new movie by director Abel Ferrera (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York).
Willner and Friday recorded the score as a live improvisation to the picture over two days in Manhattan earlier this month. Musicians included Tony Garnier and guitarist G.E. Smith (from Bob Dylan’s backing band) as well as drummer Jim White from The Dirty Three.
The film, starring Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Grace Jones, is set in New York’s Chelsea Hotel and is currently in post-production. ‘Chelsea on the Rocks’ is expected to premiere at this year’s Cannes Festival.
Breakfast in Berlin
Breakfast on Pluto will be screened at the Berlin film festival on February 11th.
Complete list of screenings:
Sat, Feb 11 21:30 Zoo Palast 1
Sun, Feb 12 10:30 CinemaxX 7
Sun, Feb 19 17:00 International
You can download a nice pdf flyer about the film on the festival website.
Fourth Irish Film and Television Awards
Gavin Friday will attend the Irish Film and Television Awards today at Dublin’s RDS. ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ tops the list of nominees, having being shortlisted in ten categories.
“IFTA lifetime member and Pierce Brosnan will be joined by fellow actors Gabriel Byrne, three-time IFTA nominee Liam Cunningham (‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, ‘Murphy’s Law’, ‘Showbands’), Stephen Rea and Gavin Friday along with directors Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and Ken Loach.”
IFTA TV coverage is on at 9pm on RTÉ Two with Kathryn Thomas hosting the ‘RTÉ Guide Red Carpet Style Show’. It will be followed by the award ceremony on RTÉ One at 9.30pm.
10th-anniversary DVD re-release of Romeo + Juliet
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.
Hitchcock at the IFI
Musician & composer Gavin Friday will introduce Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds at the Irish Film Institute on Sunday, August 20 at 2pm, as part of the ‘The film music of Bernard Hermann’ season. Read more.
Gavin Friday lands role in ‘Breakfast on Pluto’
You may have picked up some rumours already and we can now confirm that Gavin will indeed play a role in Neil Jordan’s new film ‘Breakfast on Pluto’.
The film is written by Neil Jordan and Pat McCabe after McCabe’s 1999 novel.
The Breakfast on Pluto cast consists of Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea and Gavin Friday.
‘In America’ soundtrack details
The ‘In America’ soundtrack will be released on Warners in the U.K. and Ireland on November 21st. In the U.S.A. the album is on Atlantic Records, out on November 25th.
Track listing:
1. Time Enough For Tears
2. Some things you should wish for
3. All our troubles have flown away
4. Mr American Dream I
5. Fe Fi Fo Fum
6. Painting an Angel
7. Mr American Dream II
8. Hell’s Kitchen Suite
9. Happy Holiday
10. I’m an alien
11. Bad Blood
12. The whole world has had a bad day
13. Mateo goes home
14. The third wish (In America finale)
15. All our troubles have flown away finale
All tracks written by Friday/Seezer and performed by the Friday/Seezer Ensemble, except Time Enough For Tears which is Bono/Friday/Seezer, sung by Andrea Corr.
