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Irish Opinion : Gavin Friday – Movies.ie

Irish singer, songwriter and composer Gavin Friday is no stranger to film. Since founding Virgin Prunes (legendary avant-garde post-punk group), in 1977, he (with music partner Maurice Seezer), has composed various albums and soundtrack, for films like ‘Short Cuts’, Jim Sheridan’s, ‘In the Name of the Father’ and Neil Jordan’s ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ (in which…

Interview: Friday on my mind – IMRO magazine 2005

From mQ – The IMRO magazine by Jackie Hayden – 26.10.05 These are busy times for Gavin Friday, what with his heavy involvement in overseeing the re-release of the Virgin Prunes back catalogue, his first substantial film role as a showband singer in Neil Jordan’s version of Pat McCabe’s Breakfast On Pluto, writing songs for…

Download: Gavin Friday – Toazted interview

Download a 1996 Kink FM interview in two parts from Toazted.com.

Baking tapes – the Virgin Prunes re-release interview

After the work on the re-releases had been completed, Virginprunes.com caught up with Gavin in late August to find out how the project had progressed from initial idea to final execution. Keen to explain the process, in this first installment of the interview Gavin takes us through the building of the relationship with Mute Records…

Article: Kiss my ring – Sunday Independent

From the Sunday Independent: How Gavin Friday kissed John Charles’s ring THE lord (of the ring) works in mysterious ways. Who would have thought, 30 years after his death, that John Charles McQuaid’s ring would find its resting place onperformance artist Gavin Friday’s finger, courtesy of Bono (a god of our times?)? McQuaid was the…

Interview: ‘I know my stuff and I love music’ – Sunday Mirror 2002

The Sunday Mirror interviewed Gavin about his DJ stint: ROCK star Gavin Friday may have launched his new career as a DJ but you won’t see him dancing about for a while. The former Virgin Prunes frontman’s record-spinning debut was at BP Fallon’s second Death Disco Dublin event last week. Gavin said: “I had surgery…

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…

‘ I was just trying to hang out with the Pope’

Excerpts from an interview with Peter Murphy in the Sunday Independance, August 2000. ‘[ painting was ] the only thing I was good at in school – it was the only thing I got an Honour in, I did crap in my Leaving. But when we were on tour in our mad days of the…

Brought 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 my favourite albums or poems. Books like Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront‰ — I probably relate to both Heathcliff and Cathy! Wilde’s The Picture Of…

Interview: 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 permission . . . I’ve been waiting a year for new gates, ” he mutters from the other side. He turns a key in a…