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Gavin Friday

Gavin Friday (born Fionán Martin Hanvey, 8 October 1959) is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter.

Career

Gavin was born in Dublin and grew up in Glasnevin,[1] a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside. He was a founding member[2] of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes and has recorded several solo albums and soundtracks.

In 1986, after the demise of Virgin Prunes, Gavin devoted himself to painting for a while, sharing a studio with Bono, Guggi and Charlie Whisker. This resulted in the exhibition Four Artists - Many Wednesdays (1988) at Dublin’s Hendricks Gallery. Friday, Guggi and Whisker showed paintings, while Bono opted to exhibit photo's taken in Ethiopia. Gavin's part of the show was entitled I didn’t come up the Liffey in a bubble, an expression often used by Friday's father. [3] [4]

He has maintained a close friendship with U2's Bono[5] since both were children, and they collaborated on the soundtrack for the Jim Sheridan film In the Name of the Father, including the title track "In the name of the father", "Billy Boola" and "You made me the thief of your heart", which was sung by Sinéad O'Connor and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.[6] In 2003 they wrote "Time Enough for Tears", the original theme tune for Sheridan's film In America, as sung by Andrea Corr.[7] The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. [8]

His main collaborator between 1987 and 2005 was multi-instrumentalist, Maurice Seezer. They signed to Island Records in 1988 and released three albums together, before parting with the company in 1996. [9] Since then Friday and Seezer composed the score for the Jim Sheridan movies "The Boxer" and "In America" which was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards. [10]

In 2005 Friday and Seezer collaborated with Quincy Jones on incidental music for the 50 Cent biopic "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" [11]. In 2001 they scored the film "Disco Pigs" by Kirsten Sheridan. [12]. Two years later Friday and Seezer and their ensemble also collaborated with Bono on Peter & the Wolf in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation.[13]

In September 2006 a 2-CD collection of sea shanties called Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner, was released on the ANTI- label.[14] Friday contributes to two tracks including the lewd "Baltimore Whores" and "Bully in the Alley" with ex-Virgin Prunes bandmates Guggi and Dave-id. The reunion of Friday, Guggi and Dave-id was the first time they had recorded together since the Virgin Prunes broke up in 1985.[15]

Friday worked again with Hal Willner in June 2007, appearing in the concert "Forest of No Return - the Vintage Disney Songbook" as part of the Meltdown Festival presented at London's newly reopened Royal Festival Hall. Sharing a stage with artists such as Grace Jones, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty and curator Jarvis Cocker, Friday performed the classic Disney tracks "The Siamese Cat Song" and "Castle In Spain".[16]

Taking time out from work on his fourth solo album with Herb Macken, Friday teamed up with English composer, Gavin Bryars, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North for a new interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets touring as part of the 2007 Complete Works Festival. Opening in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Friday presented his take on Sonnet 40 ('Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all') and narrated Bryars' 40-minute piece 'Nothing Like The Sun'. [17]

Friday and Macken composed the music for the Patrick McCabe play, The Revenant. [18] The Revenant opened as part of the 2007 Galway Arts Festival. The play's main theme is entitled 'Dreamland'.[19]

As of 2009 Friday and Macken are working on Gavin's 4th studio album, set for release in 2010.[20]

Acting

Friday's first acting experience was in the Kirsten Sheridan film Disco Pigs (2001), in which he played a bit part.[21]

In 2005 Gavin Friday played Billy Hatchet in the Neil Jordan film Breakfast on Pluto based on Irish author Patrick McCabe's book, which had been influenced by Friday's album Shag Tobacco.[22] On the soundtrack he sings "Wig Wam Bam" and "Sand", a duet with Cillian Murphy.

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • "You Can't Always Get What You Want", 1987
  • "Each Man Kills The Things He Loves", 1988
  • "You Take Away the Sun", 1989
  • "Man of Misfortune", 1989
  • "I Want to Live", 1992
  • "King of Trash", 1992
  • "Falling off the Edge of the World", 1993
  • "In the Name of the Father" with Bono, 1994
  • "Angel", 1995 (Soundtrack from the film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet)
  • "You, Me and World War III", 1996

Soundtracks

Scores

Collaborations

In 1983 Friday appeared on the title track of Dave Ball's In Strict Tempo.[23]

In 1984, Friday collaborated with cult English post-punk group The Fall, on three tracks: "Copped It" and "Stephen Song" appeared on the album The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, and "Clear Off!" was a track on the "Call For Escape Route" EP. On all three tracks, Friday and Fall singer Mark E. Smith alternated vocals, occasionally backing each other up.

In the same year Friday provided vocals for the track "The Tenderness of Wolves" on the album Scatology by Coil.[24]

Twelve years later, Friday collaborated with The Heads (former members of the Talking Heads without David Byrne) which consisted of Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth on a song called "Blue Blue Moon." This was included as the last of 12 tracks on The Heads' 1996 album No Talking Just Head. The song is credited to Gavin Friday, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, T. "Blast" Murray and Tina Weymouth. The remaining eleven tracks included collaborations with Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde), Michael Hutchence (INXS), Debbie Harry (Blondie), Andy Partridge (XTC), Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays/Black Grape) and others.

References

  1. ^ Jack Gleeson (ed.). "Man Friday, Northside Dublin". The Northside People. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  2. ^ Jason Ankeny (ed.). "Virgin Prunes biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  3. ^ Peter Murphy (ed.). "Still Life of a Painter". Hot Press. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  4. ^ van Oosten de Boer, Caroline (1991). Gavin Friday - The Light and Dark. Von B Press. ISBN 908-0099-716. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |pages31-38= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Brian Boyd (ed.). "Prune power". Irish Times. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  6. ^ "The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards". HFPA. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  7. ^ Tamara Conniff (ed.). "In L.A., an Irish party toast to 'In America'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  8. ^ "The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards". HFPA. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  9. ^ Caroline van Oosten de Boer (ed.). "Gavin Friday Biography". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  10. ^ "Friday and Seezer nominated for UK gong". Hot Press. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  11. ^ IGN Staff (ed.). "Interview: Quincy Jones". IGN Movies. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  12. ^ "Disco Pigs film details". Irish Film & TV Research Online. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  13. ^ "Peter & the Wolf". The Irish Hospice Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  14. ^ "Rogue's Gallery". ANTI. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  15. ^ Caroline van Oosten de Boer (ed.). "Three Pruned Men lined up for Rogue's Gallery". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  16. ^ John L Walters (ed.). "Reviews - Forest of no return". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  17. ^ Lynne Walker (ed.). "Nothing Like The Sun, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  18. ^ Siobhán Bourke, Jane Daly (ed.). "The Revenant". Irish Playography. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  19. ^ "The Revenant". The Revenant Theatre Company. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  20. ^ "New album next year, says Gavin Friday". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  21. ^ "Full cast and crew for Disco Pigs". IMDB. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  22. ^ "Breakfast on Pluto interview with Pat McCabe and Neil Jordan". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2006-01-10.
  23. ^ "Dave Ball - In Strict Tempo". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  24. ^ "Coil Discography". Brainwashed.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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