Gavin Friday
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Gavin Friday (born Fionan Martin Hanvey, on 8 October 1959, in Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer and painter. He was a founding member of the post punk group Virgin Prunes and has recorded several solo albums and soundtracks. He has maintained a close friendship with U2's Bono since both were children, and they collaborated on the soundtrack for the Jim Sheridan film, In the Name of the Father. In 2003 they wrote Time enough for tears, the original theme song for Sheridan's film In America, sung by Andrea 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 with Cillian 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 Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Shanteys, produced by Hal Willner, was released on the ANTI- label. 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.
Taking time out from work on his fourth solo album with Herbie Macken, Gavin 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, Gavin 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'.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves, 1989
- Adam 'n' Eve, 1992
- Shag Tobacco, 1995
- Peter and the Wolf, 2002
[edit] Singles
- "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)
[edit] Soundtracks
- Bad Influence, 1990
- Short Cuts, 1993
- In the Name of the Father, 1993
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 1996
- Mission Impossible, 1996
- Moulin Rouge!, 2001
- Breakfast on Pluto, 2005
[edit] Scores
- Angel Baby, 1996
- The Boxer, 1997
- In America, 2003
- Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2005
[edit] Collaborations
In 1984, Gavin 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. Friday is the only singer from outside The Fall to have shared vocals with the notoriously difficult Smith on a Fall track, although Smith has collaborated with other bands on their tracks.
