This is the setlist of ‘Gavin Friday and Friends’ as performed at Carnegie Hall.
Act 1
- Apologia – Gavin
- Children Of the Revolution – Gavin, Flo & Eddie, Bono, The Edge, Herb Macken
- I Want To Live – Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton, Flo & Eddie, Maurice Seezer
- He Got What He Wanted – Gavin, Antony, Maurice Seezer
- Paul McGuinness memories of the Virgin Prunes
- Courtney Love memories of the Virgin Prunes
- Sweethome Under White Clouds – Gavin, Guggi, Dik, JG Thirlwell, Herb Macken (piano), Maurice Seezer (on drums!)
- Caucasian Walk – Gavin, Guggi, Dik, JG Thirlwell, Herb Macken (piano), Maurice Seezer (drums)
- Thief Of Your Heart – Martha Wainwright, Maurice Seezer
- Ballad Of Immoral Earnings – Gavin & Maria McKee, Maurice Seezer
- The Light Pours Out Of Me – Gavin & Courtney Love
- Mr Pussy – Gavin, Scarlet Johansson & Rufus Wainwright
- Benares Song – Gavin & Rufus Wainwright
- A Rainy Night In Soho – Shane MacGowan, Maurice Seezer
- Falling Off The Edge Of The World – Gavin, Maria McKee, Joseph Arthur, Jenni Muldaur, Flo & Eddie
Act 2
- Cabaret / Money – Joel Grey
- Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves – Gavin & Joseph Arthur, Jenni Muldaur
- You Take Away The Sun – Gavin
- Patrick McCabe reading from first chapter of Breakfast On Pluto
- King Of Trash / 21st Century Boy – Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton and Flo & Eddie
- Knives In The Drain – Lydia Lunch
- Caruso – Gavin & Eric Mingus, Maurice Seezer
- ‘Red’ ( a Poker Face improv) – Lady Gaga
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Angel – Gavin, Antony and Flo & Eddie
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Love Is Just A Word – Gavin, Chloe Webb and Flo & Eddie
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Another Blow On The Bruise – Gavin & Edge
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Time Enough For Tears – Andrea Corr, Gavin
- The Last Song I’ll Ever Sing – Bono, Maurice Seezer
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Improv – Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn
- Sonnet 40 – Gavin, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Larry Mullen, Edge, Shane MacGowan
- Sweet Jane – Gavin, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, The Edge, John Zorn, Larry Mullen, Edge, Shane MacGowan, Bono, Flo & Eddie, Maurice Seezer
- Jean Genie – Gavin, The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Eric Mingus, Courtney Love, Jenni Muldaur, Flo & Eddie, Andrea Corr, Herb Macken, Shane MacGowan (playing Bill Frisell’s guitar upside down) etc, etc
The band:
Doug Weiselman – musical director, arranger, clarinet, saxophone
Thomas Bartlett – keyboards
Steven Bernstein – trumpet, arranger
Knox Chandler – guitar
Bill Frisell – guitar
Hank Roberts – cello
Erik Sanko – bass
Jim White – drums
The Revenant is a play by Patrick McCabe, for which Gavin and Niall ‘Herbie’ Macken wrote the main theme, entitled ‘Dreamland’. The premiere of the play took place at the Arts Festival in Galway on July 16th, 2007.
By PATRICK MCCABE
Directed by Joe O’Byrne
Music by Gavin Friday & Herbie Macken
With Peter Trant
The Oxford Dictionary defines the word as: a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.
Life’s but a walking shadow: if there is a world which defines him it is this one-of penumbra. Once he had a name: but its outline has blurred, belonging as it did to a world of sumptuous and saturated colour. He might have been a character bestriding John Hinde’s sixties photographic heaven. But now he moves cautiously – as if pursued, hunted. As he probes his way across the heart’s moorland landscape. Haunted by a monochrome vision of the past. Which, as Faulkner has written, being far from irrelevant, is not even past. In this supernova of darkness, The Revenant continues, nightly, to plead his case.
He might be lost in a Rembrandt etching. Only one thing remains constant: the grey colour of the tombstone they’ve erected over his name. And over those whose voices once lit up the little town. Which no longer exists. For the grey of this play is that which borders a memoriam card. Which this time, now reads: the small town, the end of history.
Gavin Friday and Herbie Macken have composed the music for the new Patrick McCabe play entitled ‘The Revenant’. The play’s main theme is entitled ‘Dreamland’.
‘The Revenant’ is set to open for the first time as part of the Galway Arts Festival on July 16th, 2007.
This will be the first public airing of an original Friday/Macken composition.
We expect to hear much more from Friday and Macken in the near future as they have been writing together prolificly over the last few months.
A German cultural primer for Gavin Friday fans
Billed as Gavin’s personal tribute to German culture, the recent Tomorrow Belongs To Me shows left several members of the audience scratching their heads. Those who recognised little of the performed material might have wondered exactly how such an apparently random collection of songs reflected Germany’s contribution to the world of the arts. Those more in the know might still have struggled to locate Ave Maria, Bela Lugosi and Iggy Pop in a German context. As ever, there is method to Gavin’s madness. In this feature, we explore precisely how he mined both Germany’s and his own artistic past to create this unique performance.
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As performed on July 28, 2006
ACT ONE
Intro ….’i feel love’ [ Giorgio Moroder]
1. Ave Maria [Bach]
2. In Germany before the War [ Randy Newman]
3. Berlin [Lou Reed]
4. Falling in Love Again [Marlene Dietrich]
5. Lili Marlene [Marlene Dietrich]
6. The Tears of a Lady [Fassbinder / Peer Raben]
ACT TWO
7. Installation No.1 [Einstuerzende Neubauten]
8. The Hall of Mirrors [Kraftwerk]
9 Showroom Dummies [ Kraftwerk]
10. I want More [Can]
11. ‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’
ACT THREE
12. Nosferatu [Popol Vuh]
13. Bela Lugosi is Dead [Bauhaus]
14. Metal Postcard [The Banshees]
15. Theme for Thought [Virgin Prunes]
ENCORE ONE
16.Nightclubbing [Iggy Pop / Bowie]
17. Daddy Cool [ Boney M / Munich Musick Factory]
ENCORE TWO
18. Radioactivity / 99 Red Balloons [Kraftwerk / Nena]
19. Tomorrow Belongs to me [FINALE] [ from the musicals Cabaret and
Annie... and a little bit of Celtic 'Reich' Tiger]
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