Announcing a very special (RED) Nights Event – A Concert Series That Saves Lives

Hal Willner presents:

An Evening with Gavin Friday and Friends

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Featuring Laurie Anderson, Antony, Elizabeth Ashley, Bono, Adam Clayton, Andrea Corr, The Edge, Flo & Eddie, Joel Grey, Bill Frisell, Guggi, Scarlett Johannson, Courtney Love, Lydia Lunch, Patrick McCabe, Maria McKee, Shane MacGowan, Eric Mingus, Larry Mullen, JG Thirlwell, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Chloe Webb, Plus Special Guests.

Sunday 4th October 2009
Carnegie Hall – New York City
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Tickets go on-sale Wednesday,
September 16, 11AM EST
Available at CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800
www.carnegiehall.org and the box office.

Ticket price breakdown:
Parquet $250 (front & center) & $150 (left & right)
First Tier $150
Second Tier $100
Dress Circle $90
Balcony $70 & $35

A portion of the proceeds goes to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. www.joinred.com/rednights

• Read a Q&A with Gavin about this event

Gavin Friday and Patrick McCabe will be talking to Tom Dunne on Newstalk.ie on Friday morning July 31st at 11am GMT.

Listen online at Newstalk.ie

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.

Pat McCabe and Gavin Friday will both be on the Marian Finucane Show on RTE’s radio 1 on Saturday morning, July 21st between 11 and 12 GMT.
Listen to the interview.

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.

Peter Murphy talks to author Pat McCabe in Hot Press magazine and asks: ‘How was it revisiting Breakfast On Pluto ten years after?’
“Like anything we’ve ever done, Neil does most of the architecture, he’s made so many movies, he knows instinctively what you shoot and what will work. I wouldn’t change a word of the book, it’s completely and utterly done, not a word I could add or take away that would improve it, and I know that for a fact ‘cos I spent so long on it. But that’s not true of a movie script, you’re always adding to it right up to the end, actors and designers bring so much to it. Gavin Friday for example, the invention of Billy Hatchet, that’s him, he came up with all that. It’s almost 30% of the movie. I spoke to him a little bit about it, but he instinctively understood the character.”

The radio plays Emerald Germs of Ireland are going to be repeated on RTE radio 1 at 7pm on Thursday starting 7th Sept, 2000.