Reviews
Irish Times reviews Casement Sonata: “a strange and rare gift”
Malcolm MacClancy discusses Gavin Friday’s The Casement Sonata in today’s The Irish Times. He writes: “The Casement Sonata lies in a submerged tradition of modern Irish letters that includes Patrick…
Read MoreReview – Biorhythm Live: Emotion
By Pat Lynch The 2nd of three events in the Bio Rhythm exhibition currently running at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin featured Gavin and BP Fallon amongst a cast…
Read MoreGavin Friday on Yeats – review
Gavin Friday on Yeats with Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill Seen at the National Library, June 30, 2010 Demand for Gavin Friday, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill performing work by…
Read MoreGavin Friday and Friends at Carnegie Hall – Press Round Up
The reviews are pouring in. Here’s what’s being said in the press about ‘Gavin Friday and Friends’ at Carnegie Hall: Jon Pareles of the New York Times: “Mr. Friday has…
Read More‘Friday gave an inspired performance’
Londonist reviews the 4-hour Rogue’s Gallery show in London on July 28th, 2008 Other fixtures were Ed Harcourt and Gavin Friday. Harcourt’s heartbreaking “Farewell Nancy” sounded less mournful with the…
Read MoreRogue’s Gallery: A smattering of highlights
JournalOnline.co.uk reviews Rogue’s Gallery in Gateshead: “A smattering of highlights (there were too many to mention) would be the aforementioned Oscar winner, Mr Robbins taking the lead mic for My…
Read MoreBloomsday Breakfast 2003 review
From the Irish Independent, dated Tuesday 17 June: “Actress Elizabeth P Moynihan’s reading of Molly’s soliloquy went down a storm, while Gavin Friday’s Nighttown song, accompanied on the kazoo, was…
Read MoreReview: Chills abound with Interference – Hot Press
Review of the June 6, 2003 Interference concert at Vicar Street, by Peter Murphy: Interference were always on the outside of the in-crowd, a peculiar hybrid of muso chops and…
Read MoreAfter Schools Education Project DJ night
Gavin and Guggi started their DJ set in Lillie’s Bordello on April 30, 2003 with an Aidan Walsh tune and some classy 30’s/40’s music. Raising some 10000 Euro for charity,…
Read MoreBloomsday Breakfast review
In the Evening Herald on June21st, Senator David Norris wrote the following on Gavin’s 2002 Bloomsday appearance: “Gavin Friday produced a real gem, having discovered a 1928 recording of a…
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