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Video: You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart – Sinead O’Connor, Gavin Friday, Bono

Video of ‘You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart’ from the In The Name of the Father soundtrack. Vocals by Sinead O’Connor, written by Gavin Friday, Bono and Maurice Seezer

Documentary: New York Tumble – Gary Jermyn – Made in Manhattan

‘The Man who saved With or Without You’. That’s how Bono describes Gavin in “New York Tumble” a new documentary to be aired on RTE TV in Ireland. Film maker Gary Jermyn filmed Bono, Gavin and Guggi in New York in 2001, talking about their friendship. It features interviews with celebrities such as The Edge,…

Gavin Friday talks Lypton Village

1982 interview from U2 Info Service, by Geoff Parkyn Apart from the fact that Edge’s older brother Dik Evans plays guitar in The Virgin Prunes, there are links between the two bands that go back to their childhoods, and recently Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes shed some light on their names: “The U2 connections…

Irish all stars record The Ballad of Ronnie Drew

Gavin has contributed to a charity single, “The Ballad of Ronnie Drew” in honour of The Dubliner’s singer Ronnie Drew. The proceeds will benefit the Irish Cancer Society at Ronnie Drew’s request. The track will be available in Ireland only as a download on Friday, February 22 and week later on CD. The song was…

Gavin records ‘chantey’ songs with Hal Willner

Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer, Dave-id, Guggi, Bono and Andrea Corr and a full ensemble have been working with producer Hal Willner in a Dublin studio this past week. The impromptu ensemble came together to record songs for a tribute album of ‘chantey and seamen’s work songs’.

Oscar Wilde tribute on RTE1

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.

‘Take Me Back To ’72…’

Gavin Friday remembers the Virgin Prunes From The Independent, October 7, 2004 Virgin Prunes – A Terrible Beauty Re-released Blame it on the Prods and the Plymouth Brethren… Blame it on the Christian Brothers and the GAA… Blame it on Georgie Best and the cider drinking Boot Boys…. Blame it on Sister Nora, my career…

The Boys Who Tried Wolf

Peter and the Wolf auction, Christie’s New York, November 21, 2003 Ruth Barohn and Christopher Conroy It was a Friday night. And not just literally. Three years to the day after musician and artist Gavin Friday narrated the Prokofiev classic Peter and the Wolf” at Dublin Castle, with the orchestra from the Royal Irish Academy…

Peter and the Wolf at Christie’s

On Friday, Bono’s Peter and the Wolf paintings will be on view at Christie’s in New York. Details of Auction and Viewing: Public Viewing: One day only, Friday November 21, 2003 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza Tel. 212-636-2000 Cost: Free and open to the public.

An Evening at Christie’s

U2 fan describes the invitation only Peter and the Wolf reception at Christie’s in L.A (October 14, 2003): An Evening at Christie’s. “After a while, a lovely Irishwoman was introduced. It turns out she’s the President of the Irish Hospice Foundation. She gave a lovely speech telling the story of how Gavin got involved with…