Gavin Friday will be showing and discussing his favourite tv and film clips in conversation with Dutch writer and comedian Raoul Heertje, host of VPRO’s Winter Guests (Wintergasten), on Dutch national television (Ned 2) at 8.25pm on Monday, January 2nd. The complete show will be repeated on Saturday, January 14th at 1.55pm.
Raoul Heertje: “Friday is a real artist in my opinion, someone who does what he thinks has to be done. He is completely autonomous and I get the impression he nurses his talent carefully. Woody Allen once said all his work is about love, sex and death. I think Friday’s the same. He deals with big, intense subjects. I dig that.”
Previous guests on the show include the director David Lynch, the economist Jeffrey Sachs, the writer Isabel Allende and musicians Iggy Pop and Antony.
Winter Guests (Wintergasten) is the international version of Dutch broadcaster VPRO’s successful format Summer Guests (Zomergasten). The program features a renowned guest who shows and talks about his or her favorite television and film clips, and about his or her work and life.
Wintergasten, VPRO (Dutch television)
Monday, January 2, 8.25-10pm on Ned 2.
Wintergasten official website
You can see Gavin Friday live at Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 19th.
Gavin Friday will be on RTÉ’s The Saturday Night Show tomorrow evening. (RTÉ One, Saturday, May 7 at 9.45pm) He will be interviewed by the show’s host Brendan O’ Connor and will perform a song from the new album ‘catholic’.
You can now watch the The Saturday Night Show on the RTÉ player.
Gavin was on the panel of John Kelly’s arts show ‘The View’ on February 6, 2001.
The panel consisting of Philip King, Allanah Gallagher and Gavin Friday, discuss Almost Famous, Popstars, Sex and the City and 4 Blondes.
You can watch the entire show on demand on the RTE website.
Direct link to stream.
Gavin Friday is featured in VPRO television’s “R.A.M”, for a special series on artists and their city, this Sunday, February 20, at 7.13pm on Net3 (The Netherlands). Gavin will be discussing ‘Lypton Village’. The programme will be repeated on Saturday, february 26th at 1.40pm, and will be available for viewing online. Gavin’s item starts about 35 minutes into the programme.
RTE1 (Ireland) will be airing a Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde tribute that Gavin contributed to together with Bono this Monday 27th at 10.30 pm.
150 renowned public figures were filmed by director Bill Hughes, speaking 150 of Wilde’s finest lines, epigrams and verses. Proceeds will go to Amnesty International. A DVD release is expected.
Gavin will be performing a 40 minute acoustic gig for RTE’s Other Voices, presented by John Kelly. The show will be recorded in St James’ Church in Dingle, County Kerry, on December 15th for later airing. For tickets see Irish Music Central, only 60 seats are available on the night.
Gavin and Maurice are recording an orchestral ‘Angel’ tomorrow for a Gay Byrne 8 part musical programme going out from the end of June on RTE, Ireland.
Gavin and Muc are going to be guests on “Saturday Live” on RTE 1 (Irish television) on the 18th of December. Their host for the evening will be Dana.
This week’s RTE Guide (Ireland) features a piece about Gavin and Kosovo.
Gavin has recorded a show for Radio One (Ireland) to go out between 6pm – 8pm on Christmas Day called ‘John Kelly’s Christmas Cardigan’. Gavin, Maurice and a couple of other musicians recorded ‘Fatal Flower Garden’ (one of the Harry Smith songs) to be aired on the show.
Gavin has been asked to perform at the Liss Ard festival in Skibbereen, West Cork, but he’s decided to decline the invitation to concentrate on recording.
He has recorded a TV appearance with Pat McCabe for RTE (Irish television) performing a cover version of Lynsey de Paul’s song ‘Sugar Me’ with the RTE orchestra.
