The video for Gavin Friday’s song Able, directed by Kevin Godley and produced by Ned O’Hanlon has been nominated for an Irish Music Television (IMTV) Video Music Award in the category ‘Best Male’.
Winners will be announced at the IMTV Awards 2011 on Wednesday, 30th November at the Sugar Club in Dublin, Ireland.
Gavin Friday’s music video ‘Able’ premiers today, taken from his current album ‘catholic’.
Click to watch Gavin Friday – Able – the video
Gavin Friday enlisted the expertise of highly acclaimed and renowned director Kevin Godley and producer Ned O’Hanlon for its making. Both Godley and O’Hanlon have both worked on many creative projects in the art and entertainment medium with star artists such as U2, Paul McCartney, Blur, Rolling Stones, Oasis to name but a few.
Watch The Fortune Teller online
The Fortune Teller, the acclaimed creation of New York City puppet maker Erik Sanko and designer Jessica Grindstaff, returns to the stage by popular demand at the Here Theater in New York City, October 28th–December 4th, 2010. (Click here for tickets)
The Fortune Teller features a grotesque array of 15 artfully handcrafted figures in a dark comic tale unfolding in a fantastic Victorian world. Seven characters representing the seven deadly sins convene at a dead millionaire’s estate to claim their inheritance as determined by a fortune teller. One by one, each is delivered what they have coming to them, but perhaps not what they are expecting—a brutal, but suitable, demise. Featuring the gravelly, recorded narration of Irish vocalist Gavin Friday and an eerie score by Sanko and Grammy-winning film composer Danny Elfman, this sinister puppet theater spectacle is a perverse, but gleeful morality tale for grown-ups.
Reviews
“For those souls with a taste for the elegantly macabre, attendance is highly advised. To miss it – now that would be a sin”
-The Village Voice”
“A morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly… the set, a regular wunderkammer, keeps opening up to reveal new sets and images, little Victorian dioramas… macabre and engaging.”
- The New York Times
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
Amazon.com
MP3 downloads from:
iTunes (USA)
iTunes (UK)
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Full 30-minute interview with Gavin by BigThink.com.
Gavin talks to BigThink.com about growing up in Ireland, forming bands, Lipton Village, working with Maurice Seezer and how his birthday party at Carnegie Hall came together.
Gavin Friday, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Eric Mingus performing When that great ship went down at the Harry Smith Night in New York, November 1999
Check out this animated video of Edgar Allan Poe’s For Annie as read by Gavin Friday on Hal Willner’s Poe tribute album “Closed on account of rabies“. The video was made by Jim Clark, “poetryanimations” on YouTube.
From The Silhouette Old Time Mystery Radio Show’ by Duke Special and friends, at the Fringe Festival in Dublin on September 10, 2008
