Interviews
Dave Fanning show January 07, 2004
RTE 2FM DJ Dave Fanning rang Gavin during his show devoted to ‘celebrity auctions’ on Wednesday. We caught the tail end of the interview, just after Gavin announced the Peter…
Read MoreGavin’s Top 11 albums
from Hot Press, August 1989 Jacques Brel – Live At The Olympia 1961 Patti Smith – Horses Elvis Presley – The Memphis Session 1969 Lou Reed – Berlin T-Rex –…
Read MoreBrought To Book
from Hot Press, August 1990 by Joe Jackson `A habit I have, is going back to three or four books I continually read, and which I treat like they are…
Read MoreInterview – Freedom of Expression
From the Irish Times: Gavin Friday has formulated his lifelong passion for German music, art, literature and film into a personal tribute show – with the help of a German…
Read MoreInterview: Gavin Friday – ‘I’m beginning to like myself’
From Tribune.ie by Una GAVIN Friday saunters up his steep driveway on Vico Road to the green metal sheets covering the entrance to his Dalkey home. “Bloody Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown planning…
Read MoreInterview – Rogue’s Gallery: ‘No time to rehearse, just go in and learn your part and sing it…’
GavinFriday.com talks to Gavin about the Chanteys and Sea Songs tribute album and its all star line-up. Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Antony and the Johnsons, Bono and yourselves… that’s quite…
Read MoreHot Press magazine: The return of the slaughterhouse six
By Peter Murphy Back in their terrifying heyday, they threw pigs’ heads around on stage, covered themselves in muck, provided Marilyn Manson with a career and wrote ‘Community Games’ for…
Read MoreWhat does Gavin Friday know?
From ‘Dubliner’ magazine, October 2004 If I had to define fame, I’d say that’s it’s being fucked. Life on the road? When I am touring, I love performing, but I…
Read MoreHollywoodwood Reporter meets Clan Sheridan
In L.A., an Irish party toast to ‘In America’ Tamara Conniff, Hollywood Reporter Jan 29, 2004 Jim Sheridan is an intense man. His thoughts shift easily from the death of…
Read MoreNPR: All Things Considered
NPR’s Melissa Block talks to Gavin about the music of Peter and the Wolf. (Excerpt: start of Peter and the Wolf intro) Melissa Block: No doubt you recognise the theme.…
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