Gavin Fridayjim sheridan – Topic – Gavin Friday – Official Site http://gavinfriday.com Official Site Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:16:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Soundtrack: In The Name Of The Father http://gavinfriday.com/discography/soundtrack-in-the-name-of-the-father-bono-gavin-friday-jim-sheridan/ http://gavinfriday.com/discography/soundtrack-in-the-name-of-the-father-bono-gavin-friday-jim-sheridan/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:28:30 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/?page_id=3644 Gavin Friday - In The Name Of The Father (soundtrack)

In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical film directed by Jim Sheridan. It is based on the true life story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the IRA’s Guildford pub bombings.

In the Name of the Father won the Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Pete Postlethwaite), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Emma Thompson), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The songs In The Name Of The Father and You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart, co-written by Gavin Friday, Bono and Maurice Seezer were released as singles.

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The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson. Day-Lewis plays Danny Flynn, a boxer and former IRA man, who is trying to stay straight after his release from prison.

The Boxer was nominated for three Golden Globes in the Picture, Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Director (Jim Sheridan) categories. It also competed for the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 1998.

Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer composed the score of The Boxer and wrote two songs for it: In The Shadow Of A Gun and Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.

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In America is a 2003 film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiographical screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten focuses on an immigrant Irish family’s efforts to survive in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter.

The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay for Sheridan, Best Actress for Samantha Morton and Best Supporting Actor for Djimon Hounsou.

The score, composed by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards.

Time Enough For Tears was nominated in the 2003 Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song, The Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Song, and won the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Song.

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First single from the soundtrack to Jim Sheridan’s In The Name Of The Father.

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Second single taken from the soundtrack of Jim Sheridan’s In The Name Of The Father, with vocals by Sinéad O’Connor.

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This BBC Weather ‘Be One Step Ahead’ trailer which has been running on BBC television for the last couple of months features the track “All our troubles have flown away” from the Friday/Seezer soundtrack for Jim Sheridan’s movie ‘In America’.

The soundtrack CD is available from:
Amazon.co.uk
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MP3 downloads from:
iTunes (USA)
iTunes (UK)
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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2010/10/26/all-our-troubles-have-flown-away-in-bbc-trailer/feed/ 0 Prestigious 50 ct contract http://gavinfriday.com/2005/08/15/prestigious-ct-contract/ http://gavinfriday.com/2005/08/15/prestigious-ct-contract/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:16:51 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/2005/08/15/prestigious-50-ct-contract/ The Sunday Independent reports (reg. req.) on Gavin and Maurice’s collaboration with Quincy Jones:

‘Irish Renaissance man Gavin Friday and his musical partner Maurice Seezer, [who] have landed the prestigious contract to work with living legend Quincy Jones on the soundtrack for the new 50 Cent movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin”m (directed by Jim Sheridan). The pair will skip the country for LA to start work on the new project which will “be along the lines of Eminem’s huge smash-hit movie”, an insider tells me. The film, which goes on release in December, will also coincide with silver-tongued Gavin Friday’s silver-screen debut with Irish actor Cillian Murphy in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto (starring Liam Neeson). Gavin first met 50 Cent in May in Toronto. In June, Gavin had a meeting with Quincy Jones in New York. It obviously went well because last weekend Quincy came to Dublin to “seal the deal”.’

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2005/08/15/prestigious-ct-contract/feed/ 0 Friday/Seezer team up with Quincy Jones http://gavinfriday.com/2005/08/03/fridayseezer-team-up-quincy-jones/ http://gavinfriday.com/2005/08/03/fridayseezer-team-up-quincy-jones/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:14:54 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/2005/08/03/fridayseezer-team-up-with-quincy-jones/ From Variety.com – Jones knows the score:

“Quincy Jones has signed on to compose the original score for Paramount’s ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’,’ his first film score in the two decades since ‘The Color Purple.’ Jones, who has been nommed for seven Oscars, will be working with composers Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer, director Jim Sheridan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who’s toplining and writing songs for the film. Story, penned by Terence Winter, centers on an orphaned street kid who makes his mark in the drug trade, then leaves the violence behind to pursue a career in rap. Jones has penned 33 film scores, including “In the Heat of the Night,” “In Cold Blood,” “The Italian Job,” “Cactus Flower,” “The Wiz” and “The Color Purple,” which he also co-produced. He also wrote “Soul Bossa Nova,” the “Austin Powers” theme.”

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Tamara Conniff, Hollywood Reporter
Jan 29, 2004
Jim Sheridan is an intense man. His thoughts shift easily from the death of William Shakespeare’s son and the meaning of “Hamlet” to James Joyce’s obsession with death to the merits of schlepping a third-hand air conditioner through the streets of Manhattan on a very hot day, as seen in his Oscar-nominated film “In America.”
Sitting in a garden restaurant on a mild and sunny Los Angeles afternoon, Sheridan joins U2′s Bono, songwriter and performer Gavin Friday, composer Maurice Seezer and singer Andrea Corr to toast the success of “In America.” The original song “Time Enough for Tears” was written for the film by Bono, Sheridan, Friday and Seezer and performed by Corr. And even though the song failed to take home a Golden Globe and was shut out of the Oscar nominations, the group is thrilled by the film’s three Oscar mentions — for leading actress Samantha Morton, supporting actor Djimon Hounsou and original screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten.
Bono says it’s important that smaller films and nonradio-friendly songs like the delicate “Time Enough for Tears” receive attention. “These are gems that people need to know about, otherwise they’ll fall into the dirt,” Bono says.
Sheridan, Friday and Bono have a long history of supporting each other creatively. The trio’s friendship dates to the late 1970s, when Sheridan ran Dublin’s alternative theater, the Project Art Center, where Bono (with U2) and Friday (with the Virgin Prunes) performed their first gigs. Friday says that Sheridan, in an effort to improve his and Bono’s stage personas, instructed the two frontmen in the art of mime. The trio and Seezer first worked together on the score and an original song for Sheridan’s award-winning 1993 film “In the Name of the Father.”
“In America,” which follows an Irish family who emigrates to the United States in search of the American dream, comes at a strange political time, given the anti-American sentiment raging through Europe because of the Iraq war. Bono noted that being shut out of the Golden Globes, which is voted on by the international press corps, was not surprising, and he hopes that the film will fare better in American awards.
“The film takes an unpopular position because it’s pro-American and pro-working people,” Bono says.
For Sheridan, the semiautobiographical film also is about dealing with loss. In the picture, the family comes to terms with the premature death of son and brother Frankie. In real life, Sheridan was 18 when he lost his brother Frankie, who was 11, to a brain tumor. Sheridan says he and his family were haunted by Frankie’s death; writing the film with his daughters (who moved with him and his wife to New York City in the early 1980s) was cathartic.
“The Irish have too much of a preoccupation with death,” Sheridan says. “This film is about (all of us) moving away from this fascination.”
Bono smiles and nods in a agreement, “It’s the (Irish) rain that makes us melancholic.”
However, while the Irish enjoy their suffering, they balance it with a good party, Seezer says.
The score to the film reflects this spirit. In fact, Sheridan’s direction to Friday and Seezer was to “make fun of the film” and incorporate the true sounds of Irish immigrant music. The result is purely Irish, with the music adding bittersweet levity to devastating emotion.
In many ways, “In America” is a love letter to New York and its boundless possibilities. Sheridan smiles: “Sorry, I love America.”

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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.

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