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Infobox musical artist| name = Gavin Friday| image = Gavin friday clarence hotel.jpg| caption =| image_size = 250| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Fionán Martin Hanvey| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1959|10|08|birth_place = Dublin , Leinster , Republic of Ireland|Ireland | death_date =| origin =| instrument = Singing|Vocals | genre = Alternative rock Soundtrack Post-punk Cabaret Film score | occupation = Vocalist, musician, singer-songwriter , Record producer|producer , actor| years_active = 1977–present| label = Rubyworks | associated_acts = Virgin Prunes | website = http://www.gavinfriday.com/ gavinfriday.com| notable_instruments = Gavin Friday (born Fionán Martin Hanvey , 8 October 1959) is an Ireland|Irish singer and songwriter , composer , actor and Painting|painter .
Career
Gavin was born in Dublin and grew up in Ballygall a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside (Dublin)|Northside located between Finglas and Glasnevin where he went to school http://www.leavingcert.net/skoool/examcentre_senior.asp? id=3705 retrieved 5 April 2012.. He was a founding membercite web |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5768/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Virgin Prunes biography |publisher=Allmusic |editor= Jason Ankeny |accessdate=2009-10-13 of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes and has sound recording and reproduction|recorded several solo (music)|solo album s and soundtrack s.
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 photos 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.cite web |url= http://wordpress.hotpress.com/petermurphy/2009/04/29/still-life-of-a-painter/|title=Still Life of a Painter |publisher=Hot Press |editor= Peter Murphy |accessdate=2009-10-19 cite book |last= van Oosten de Boer |first= Caroline |title= Gavin Friday - The Light and Dark |publisher= Von B Press |year= 1991 |month= August |isbn= 90-800997-1-6 |pages31-38=
He has maintained a close friendship with U2 's Bono cite news |url= http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1003/1224255764949.html |title=Prune power |publisher=Irish Times |editor= Brian Boyd |accessdate=2009-10-13 |date=2009-10-10 since both were children, and they collaborated on the soundtrack for the Jim Sheridan film In the Name of the Father (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.cite web |url= http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1993|title=The 51st Annual Golden GlobeAwards |publisher=HFPA |accessdate=2009-10-18 In 2003 they wrote "Time Enough for Tears", the original theme tune for Sheridan's film In America , as sung by Andrea Corr .cite news |url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=2079131|title=In L.A., an Irish party toast to 'In America' |editor= Tamara Conniff |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |accessdate=2009-10-17 |deadurl=yesDead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.cite web |url= http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/2003|title=The 61st Annual Golden GlobeAwards |publisher=HFPA |accessdate=2009-10-18
In 1995 he performed ''Look What You've Done (To My Skin),'' one of two songs (the other sung by P.J. Harvey ) written by Philip Ridley and Nick Bicat for Ridley's second feature film as writer and director, The Passion of Darkly Noon . http://filmsfull.blogspot.com/2010/12/passion-of-darkly-noon-1995-philip.html? utm_source=twitterfeed& utm_medium=hellotxt
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.cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/biography/ |title=Gavin Friday Biography |publisher=GavinFriday.com |editor= Caroline van Oosten de Boer |accessdate=2009-10-13 Since then Friday and Seezer composed the score for the Jim Sheridan movies " The Boxer (film)|The Boxer " and " In America (film)|In America " which was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards .cite web |url= http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2726067.html|title=Friday and Seezer nominated for UK gong |publisher=Hot Press |accessdate=2009-10-18
In 2005 Friday and Seezer collaborated with QuincyJones on incidental music for the 50 Cent biopic '' Get Rich or Die Tryin' (film)|Get Rich or Die Tryin' .cite web |url= http://movies.ign.com/articles/665/665477p1.html|title=Interview: QuincyJones |editor= IGN Staff |publisher= IGN Movies |accessdate=2009-10-18 In 2001 they scored the film Disco Pigs by Kirsten Sheridan .cite web |url= http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php? fid=57107|title=Disco Pigs film details |publisher=Irish Film & TV Research Online |accessdate=2009-10-18 Two years later Friday and Seezer and their ensemble also collaborated with Bono on Peter & the Wolf in aid of the St. Francis Hospice, Raheny|Irish Hospice Foundation .cite web |url= http://www.peterwolf.org/about.html|title=Peter & the Wolf |publisher=The Irish Hospice Foundation |accessdate=2009-10-18
In September 2006 a 2- Compact disc|CD collection of sea shanties called '' Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys '', record producer|produced by Hal Willner , was released on the ANTI- label.cite web |url= http://www.anti.com/artists/view/38l |title=Rogue's Gallery |publisher=ANTI |accessdate=2009-10-16 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.cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/2008/06/21/three-pruned-men-lined-up-for-rogues-gallery-dublin/ |title=Three Pruned Men lined up for Rogue's Gallery |publisher=GavinFriday.com |editor= Caroline van Oosten de Boer |accessdate=2009-10-16
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 musician|artists such as GraceJones , Nick Cave , Pete Doherty and curator Jarvis Cocker , Friday performed the classic Disney tracks "The Siamese Cat Song" and "Castle In Spain".cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jun/20/popandrock.reviews |title=Reviews - Forest of no return |publisher= The Guardian |editor= John L Walters |accessdate=2009-10-16 | location=London | date=2007-06-20
Taking time out from work on his fourth solo album with Herb Macken, Friday teamed up with English people|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'.cite news |url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/nothing-like-the-sun-courtyard-theatre-stratforduponavon--none-onestar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-438250.html |title=Nothing Like The Sun, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon |publisher=The Independent |editor= Lynne Walker |accessdate=2009-10-13 | location=London | date=2007-02-28
Friday and Macken composed the music for the Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe Play (theatre)|play , The Revenant .cite web |url= http://www.irishplayography.com/search/play.asp? play_id=2630 |title=The Revenant |publisher=Irish Playography |editor= Siobhán Bourke, Jane Daly |accessdate=2009-10-13 The Revenant opened as part of the 2007 Galway Arts Festival . The play's main theme is entitled 'Dreamland'.cite web |url= http://www.therevenanttheatrecompany.com/music.html |title=The Revenant |publisher=The Revenant Theatre Company |accessdate=2009-10-20
In 2009 Friday and Macken worked on Gavin's 4th studio album, set for release in 2010.cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/2009/06/25/new-album-next-year-says-gavin-friday/ |title=New album next year, says Gavin Friday |publisher=GavinFriday.com |accessdate=2009-10-13
On April 6, 2010 Record company Rubyworks announced they signed Gavin Friday and that a new album is on its way.cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/2010/04/06/gavin-friday-signs-to-rubyworks-new-album-on-the-way/ |title=Gavin Friday signs to Rubyworks: new album on the way |publisher=GavinFriday.com |accessdate=2010-04-06 The new CD is titled catholic (album)| catholic and was released in Ireland on Good Friday: April 22, 2011.cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/2011/02/18/sign-up-for-news-about-gavin-friday-catholic-the-forthcoming-album/ |title=Sign up for news about Gavin Friday – catholic – the forthcoming album |publisher=GavinFriday.com |accessdate=2011-02-28
Acting
Friday's first acting experience was in the Kirsten Sheridan film Disco Pigs (2001), in which he played a bit part.cite web |url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236157/fullcredits#cast|title=Full cast and crew for Disco Pigs |publisher=IMDB |accessdate=2009-10-19
In 2005 Gavin Friday played Billy Hatchett in the Neil Jordan film Breakfast on Pluto (film)|Breakfast on Pluto based on Irish author Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe 's book, which had been influenced by Friday's album Shag Tobacco .cite web |url= http://gavinfriday.com/2006/01/10/shag-tobacco-influenced-breakfast-on-pluto/|title=Breakfast on Pluto interview with Pat McCabe and Neil Jordan |publisher=The Irish Times |accessdate=2006-01-10 On the soundtrack he sings " Sweet (band)|Wig Wam Bam " and "Sand", a duet (music)|duet with Cillian Murphy .
'' Get Rich or Die Tryin' (film)|Get Rich or Die Tryin' , 2005
Collaborations
In 1983 Friday appeared on the title track of Dave Ball (musician)|Dave Ball 's In Strict Tempo .cite web |url= http://www.discogs.com/Dave-Ball-In-Strict-Tempo/release/200169? ev=rr |title=Dave Ball - In Strict Tempo |publisher=Discogs.com |accessdate=2009-10-16
In 1984, Friday collaborated with cult England|English post-punk group The Fall (band)|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 (album)|Scatology by Coil (band)|Coil .cite web |url= http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/ffk1.php? site=coil08 |title=Coil Discography |publisher=Brainwashed.com |accessdate=2009-10-16
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 (band)|Blondie ), Andy Partridge ( XTC ), Shaun Ryder ( Happy Mondays / Black Grape ) and others.
In 2011, he contributed a cover version of " The Fly (song)|The Fly " to AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered , a tribute album to U2 ’s Achtung Baby . http://news.qthemusic.com/2011/10/q_curates_cover_album_of_u2s_a.html Q 'releasing' U2 Achtung Baby covers album feat. Jack White, Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Killers & more..., Q the Music , 2011-10-10
References
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.facebook.com/gavinfridaynews Official Facebook page
http://www.Last.fm/group/Gavin+Friday Last.fm Gavin Friday group
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