Gavin Friday composes music for Anton Corbijn documentary

Gavin Friday has composed music for a new documentary about Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn by director Klaartje Quirijns. “Anton Corbijn Inside Out” is an intimate and revealing portrait of an influential artist and the result of almost four years of filming by Quirijns. The documentary features appearances by many of the artists Corbijn has worked…

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Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn

Gavin Friday, Guggi, Bono, Michael Stipe, Brandon Flowers, Dave Gahan and others tell the story of Anton Corbijn, “the ultimate insider who now finds himself outside the Hollywood system” in Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn, a documentary by Josh Whiteman now making the rounds on the festival circuit.

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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,…

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Gavin Friday contributes to Scott Walker tribute film

Verve pictures are releasing Stephen Kijak’s ‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’ in April of this year, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Walker’s latest album ‘The Drift’, as well as interviews with friends, collaborators, and fans including, among others: David Bowie, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Neil Hannon, Alison Goldfrapp,…

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Three Wishes on RTE

RTE (Irish television) will screen Gavin’s film ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’ on Friday, December 17th at 8.00pm on RTE 1

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Three Wishes for Kosovo

By Gavin Friday From: Irish Independent, September 26, 1999 “Taxi, Barry’s Balloon’s Phibsboro, then I’m off to Artane to see ‘Joe’ the magic man” ” What’s the story Bud?” “I’m just getting a crash course in balloon magic….” “What are you doing, starting up a circus?” “No, I’m going to Kosovo” “Kosovo? Why? Are you…

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Three wishes for Kosovo

Gavin has written a piece for this Sunday’s Independent (Irish newspaper) called ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’. Muc the flying piggy bank’s website should be online this weekend Sunday and will carry the text of the piece on it. The URL of the site will be www.mucoink.com.

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Artists for Kosovo documentary completed

The video documentary ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’ has been completed. The footage was filmed by Gavin Friday & crew in Kosovo earlier this summer. It will be shown on Irish television later this year. Muc the Flying Piggy Bank, part of the Artists for Kosovo project, will start his tour of Ireland in Cork, 28th…

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