Gavin Friday is among the many artists who join Paul Brady on his new album The Vicar Street Sessions, presenting highlights of Brady’s 23-gig run at the Dublin venue 14 years ago. The album also features Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor, Ronan Keating, Mark Knopfler and Bonnie Raitt.
The Vicar Street Sessions: Volume 1 will be released on Monday April 27.
Patrick McCabe’s play Brady – The Revenant, with original music composed and performed by Gavin Friday, will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, this Sunday at 8pm. In The Revenant we meet Francie Brady, many years since the events of The Butcher Boy, we meet Francie Brady. Brady now inhabits a form of rarefied space, returning from…
Starring Stephen Rea and with original music by Gavin Friday, Patrick McCabe’s radio play “Country & Irish” airs this Saturday, at 9.45pm GMT on BBC Radio 3. In the Irish Midlands – where sentiment and psychopathy do an old-time waltz, and no-one gets out of the ballroom alive, Donie ‘Jellybelly’ Burris’s life is in free-fall.…
Gavin Friday’s performance of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 40 with Kate Ellis and Kaleidoscope, recorded last week, will be broadcast tonight on RTE Radio 1 at 10pm GMT. You will be able to listen to it on the RTE website.
Gavin will be dropping in to talk to Dan Hegarty on RTE’s 2FM this Tuesday (28/8) at midnight (GMT), ahead of his performance at next weekend’s Electric Picnic.
Gavin Friday will be on Barry Egan’s “In Conversation” on Radio Nova (Ireland, 100 FM and online) this Sunday evening at 7pm GMT, for an hour long talk in anticipation of his upcoming show at the Electric Picnic festival.
Gavin will be spinning discs and talking with Cathal Murray on The Weekend on One on RTE Radio 1 tomorrow morning (Saturday, August 18) at 7am GMT (the show starts at 6am). You can listen to the show online on the RTE Radio 1 website.
Gavin Friday will be talking to Barry Egan on Radio Nova 100FM’s ‘In Conversation’ this Sunday (September 12th) from 6pm to 8pm GMT. Highlight of the 2-hour interview was Gavin’s recital of his classic song ‘Apologia’ at Egan’s request.
Tune in to BBC Radio 2 tonight to hear Gavin talk about Jacques Brel in Marc Almond’s three part documentary ‘Behind the Brel: The Story of a Musical Genius‘ in which Almond delivers a personal exploration of the life and works of the Belgian singer. Other contributors include Rod McKuen, who made If You Go…
103.2 Dublin City FM is airing the radio documentary “Accents and Prestige”. Produced and presented by Heather MacLeod and Gerard Counihan with support of the BCI Sound and Vision Broadcasting Funding Scheme, “Accents and Prestige” discusses and explores how accent affects our everyday lives, what accent means to us and the psychology behind recognising, mimicking…