Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer receive IMRO and ASCAP award

Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer received an Irish Music Rights Organisation and ASCAP award for the ongoing success of their film compositions in the USA in 2013. “Gavin and Maurice have created some of the most inspiring, moving and memorable soundtracks in Irish film and TV across the last decade that have gone on to…

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Gavin Friday and Friends – setlist

This is the setlist of ‘Gavin Friday and Friends’ as performed at Carnegie Hall. Act 1 Apologia – Gavin Children Of the Revolution – Gavin, Flo & Eddie, Bono, The Edge, Herb Macken I Want To Live – Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton, Flo & Eddie, Maurice Seezer He Got What He Wanted…

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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’.

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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…

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You can count on Friday

RTE Late Late Show, Tribute to Jim Sheridan, October 31, 2003 by Patrick Lynch Gavin and Maurice were among the many guests who appeared on a two hour tribute show to film director Jim Sheridan on Ireland’s Late Late show on Friday night. Gavin told host Pat Kenny they have worked with Sheridan since 1993’s…

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Wolf on Lyric FM, Gavin and Maurice on Mystery Train

Tonight on Lyric FM in Ireland, a one-hour documentary about Peter and the Wolf on October 31st, at 7pm. Both Gavin and Maurice are interviewed. Lyric FM broadcast in Ireland and online. Gavin and Maurice appeared on John Kelly’s Mystery Train tonight at 8pm to talk about and play some of the In America soundtrack…

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Friday/Seezer record Peter and the Wolf

Gavin, who is recovering from back surgery, Maurice, and the Friday/Seezer ensemble will be going into Windmill Lane studio early next month to record Peter and the Wolf as the Irish Hospice Foundation’s 2002 project. The cd will be released with an illustrated booklet. In recent years, the IHF has released similar projects to raise…

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The Nighttown Boys

by Peter Murphy Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer give Peter Murphy a blow-by-blow guide to soundtracking The Boxer. HUNCHED OVER their cappuccinos at the back of Tosca s restaurant, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer look for all the world like two mafiosi plotting the details ofa particularly tricky hit and not the chartbusting kind, either.…

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