Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer together with Quincy Jones recorded incidental music for Jim Sheridan’s film 2005 crime drama Get Rich or Die Tryin’ starring 50 Cent. The music was not included on the film’s Original Soundtrack CD.
Topic: Score
Score: Disco Pigs (unreleased)
Unreleased score for Disco Pigs, a 2001 Irish film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Enda Walsh, adapted from Walsh’s 1996 play of the same name. Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy star as Cork teenagers who have a lifelong, but unhealthy friendship that is imploding as they approach adulthood. Gavin Friday has a part in the movie. He would later play opposite Cillian Murphy again in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast On Pluto.
Disco Pigs
Based on a play by Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs was director Kirsten Sheridan’s, daughter of Jim Sheridan, first film. Gavin and Maurice recorded the music for the film. The soundtrack was never released in any format.
Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Gallagher, Charles Bark, Eleanor Methven, Eoghan Harris
Synopsis:
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but in bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. They are also partners in crime, with an appetite for recklessness, exploration and destruction.
But days before their 17th birthday the perfect balance of their world begins to shift. Pig’s sexual awakening and increasing jealousy begins to threaten their private universe. Unable to contemplate the loss of Runt, Pig’s unpredictable nature spirals out of control in a trail of violence and destruction. The inseparable are about to separate, and which one will survive will depend on which one can break free.
Chelsea on the Rocks
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.
Stills from the movie.
‘In America’ score nominated for Ivor Novello award
Gavin and Maurice’s score for Jim Sheridan’s ‘In America’ has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award. The awards ceremony will take place in London in May this year.
The IVORS are internationally respected as the premier award ceremony to reflect the talent of British songwriters and composers and their contribution as the creative source of the music industry’s prosperity.
The event is presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with the Performing Right Society.
Gavin scores on Lyric FM
Lyric FM, ‘The Green Room’ will be airing an hour long “Gavin Friday Christmas soundtrack special” on Saturday, December 27th. Gavin will be talking about score and play some of his favourties. You can listen to Lyric FM online from their website.
‘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.
‘In America’ release postponed
The release date for Jim Sheridan’s In America has been put back till November 26. You can watch a trailer including Gavin and Maurice’s music on Fox Searchlight’s site. The song for the film, written by Friday, Seezer and Bono and sung by Andrea Corr has been recorded. Gavin and Maurice will be working with Sheridan within the next few weeks to add the song to the film.
‘In America’ screening
Jim Sheridan’s new film (score by Friday/Seezer) was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival with a new title: “In America”.
Consolation Champs reviews the film.
Disco Pigs out on DVD
The Kirsten Sheridan film Disco Pigs (2001) for which Gavin and Maurice did the score is out on DVD this month. You can pre-order it from BlackStar. Gavin has a little cameo in this film too. No soundtrack album was released for this film, so this DVD is the currently the only way to hear the score.
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