- Gavin Friday
Infobox musical artist
Name = Gavin Friday
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Background = Socialite, solo_singer
Birth_name = Fionan Martin Hanvey
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Dublin , Ireland
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Instrument = Vocals
Genre =Alternative rock Soundtrack
Occupation = Vocalist,musician , producer,actor
Years_active = 1977 — present
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Associated_acts =Virgin Prunes
URL = [http://www.gavinfriday.com/ gavinfriday.com]
Notable_instruments =Gavin Friday (born Fionan Martin Hanvey,
8 October 1959 ,Dublin ) is an Irishsinger andsongwriter ,composer and painter.Career
Gavin grew up in
Glasnevin , a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside. He was a founding member of thegothic rock groupThe Virgin Prunes and has recorded several soloalbum s andsoundtrack s. He has maintained a close friendship withU2 'sBono since both were children, and they collaborated on the soundtrack for theJim Sheridan film "In the Name of the Father". In 2003 they wrote "Time Enough for Tears", the originaltheme tune for Sheridan's film "In America ", as sung byAndrea Corr .In 2005 Gavin Friday played Billy Hatchet in the
Neil Jordan film " Breakfast on Pluto". On the soundtrack he sings "Wig Wam Bam" and "Sand", a duet withCillian Murphy .His main collaborator since beginning his solo work in 1985 has been multi-
instrumentalist ,Maurice Seezer .In September 2006 a 2-CD collection of sea shanties called "", produced by
Hal Willner , was released on theANTI- label. Friday contributes to two tracks including the lewd "Baltimore Whores" and "Bully in the Alley" with ex-Virgin Prunes bandmatesGuggi 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.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 reopenedRoyal Festival Hall . Sharing a stage with artists such asGrace Jones ,Nick Cave ,Pete Doherty and curatorJarvis Cocker , Friday performed the classicDisney tracks "The Siamese Cat Song" and "Castle In Spain".Taking time out from work on his fourth solo album with Herb Macken, Friday teamed up with English
composer ,Gavin Bryars , theRoyal Shakespeare Company andOpera North for a new interpretation ofShakespeare 's Sonnets touring as part of the 2007 Complete Works Festival. Opening inStratford-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'.Friday and Macken composed the music for the
Patrick McCabe play, "The Revenant". The play's main theme is entitled 'Dreamland'. "The Revenant" is set to open for the first time as part of the 2007Galway Arts Festival .Discography
Albums
* "
Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves ", 1989
* "Adam 'n' Eve ", 1992
* "Shag Tobacco ", 1995
* "Peter and the Wolf", 2002ingles
* "You Can't Always Get What You Want", 1987
* "Man of Misfortune", 1990
* "I Want to Live", 1992
* "King of Trash", 1992
* "Falling off the Edge of the World", 1993
* "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart", 1994
* "In the Name of the Father", 1994
* "Angel", 1995 (Soundtrack from the film "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet ")
* "You, Me and World War III", 1996
* "The Last Song I Will Ever Sing", 1996 ("Basquiat " film soundtrack)oundtracks
* 1990 "Bad Influence"
* 1993 "Short Cuts "
* 1993 "In the Name of the Father"
* 1996 "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet "
* 1996 ""
* 2001 "Moulin Rouge! "
* 2005 "Breakfast on Pluto"cores
* "Angel Baby", 1996
* "The Boxer", 1997
* "In America ", 2003
* "Get Rich or Die Tryin' ", 2005Collaborations
In 1983 Friday appeared on the title track of Dave Ball's "In Strict Tempo".
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 singerMark 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.
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.External links
* [http://www.gavinfriday.com Official Site]
* [http://www.virginprunes.com Official Virgin Prunes Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/mrgavinfriday Official MySpace profile]
* [http://www.Last.fm/group/Gavin+Friday Last.fm Gavin Friday group]
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