Gavin Friday

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Gavin Friday
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Gavin Friday (born Fionán Martin Hanvey, 8 October 1959) is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter, best known as a founding member of the

The Virgin Prunes
.

Early life

Fionan Hanvey was born in

Northside, between Finglas and Glasnevin.[1] When he was fourteen years old and living on Cedarwood Road, between Finglas and Ballymun, he met Bono and Guggi at a party to which he had not been invited. Bono said: "We caught him trying to steal something of the house. Classic teenage stuff... but we became friends."[2]

Career

Friday was a founding member of the

The Virgin Prunes[3] and has recorded several solo albums and soundtracks.[citation needed
]

In 1986, after the demise of the Virgin Prunes, Friday 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. He, Guggi and Whisker showed paintings, while Bono opted to exhibit photos taken in Ethiopia. Friday's part of the show was entitled I didn't come up the Liffey in a bubble, an expression often used by his father.[4][5]

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.[6] Later, Friday and Seezer composed the score for the Jim Sheridan films The Boxer and In America which was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards.[7]

He has maintained a close friendship with

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[11]

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.[12]

In 2005 Friday and Seezer collaborated with Quincy Jones on incidental music for the 50 Cent biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin'.[13] In 2001 they scored the film Disco Pigs by Kirsten Sheridan.[14] Two years later Friday and Seezer and their ensemble also collaborated with Bono on Peter & the Wolf in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation.[15]

In September 2006 a 2-CD collection of

ANTI- label.[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.[17]

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

Disney songs "The Siamese Cat Song" and "Castle in Spain".[18]

Taking time out from work on his fourth solo album with Herb Macken, Friday teamed up with English composer,

Galway Arts Festival. The play's main theme is entitled 'Dreamland'.[21]

In 2009, Friday and Macken worked on Friday's fourth studio album, set for release in 2010.[22] On 6 April 2010 Record company Rubyworks announced they signed Gavin Friday and that a new album was on its way.[23] The new CD was titled catholic and was released in Ireland on Good Friday: 22 April 2011.[24]

Filmography

After contributing to the documentary Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe (2000),[25] Friday's first acting experience was in the Kirsten Sheridan film Disco Pigs (2001), in which he had a bit part.[26]

In 2005 Gavin Friday played Billy Hatchett in the

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) – IRE No. 15, AUS No. 56[28]
  • "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

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.[29] Twelve years later, Friday collaborated with the Heads (former members of Talking Heads minus David Byrne) 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
.

In 2010, Friday collaborated with David Ball again on a cover of Suicide's "Ghost Rider" for the Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series. In 2011, he contributed a cover version of "The Fly" to AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, a tribute album to U2's Achtung Baby.[30] In 2013, Friday collaborated with Shannon McNally on the traditional "Tom's Gone to Hilo" for the Sea shanty-compilation Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (2013).[31]

Personal life

Entrance to Friday's property on Vico Road, Killiney, County Dublin

Friday lives in a house on Vico Road, Killiney, a southern suburb of Dublin, next door to Bono and his wife Ali Hewson.[32][33] He is godfather to their daughter, actress Eve Hewson.[34]

References

  1. ^ "Finglas and Glasnevin where Friday went to school". 5 April 2012. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0-06-077674-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  3. ^ Jason Ankeny (ed.). "Virgin Prunes biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  4. ^ Peter Murphy, ed. (August 2013). "Still Life of a Painter". Hot Press. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  5. ISBN 90-800997-1-6
    .
  6. ^ Caroline van Oosten de Boer (ed.). "Gavin Friday Biography". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  7. ^ "Friday and Seezer nominated for UK gong". Hot Press. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  8. ^ Brian Boyd, ed. (10 October 2009). "Prune power". Irish Times. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  9. ^ "The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards". HFPA. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  10. ^ Tamara Conniff (ed.). "In L.A., an Irish party toast to 'In America'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 October 2009. [dead link]
  11. ^ "The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards". HFPA. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  12. ^ "FiLmS Full: The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) - Philip Ridley". Filmsfull.blogspot.com. 3 December 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Interview: Quincy Jones". IGN Movies. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  14. ^ "Disco Pigs film details". Irish Film & TV Research Online. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  15. ^ "Peter & the Wolf". The Irish Hospice Foundation. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  16. ^ "Rogue's Gallery". ANTI. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  17. ^ Caroline van Oosten de Boer (ed.). "Three Pruned Men lined up for Rogue's Gallery". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  18. ^ John L Walters, ed. (20 June 2007). "Reviews – Forest of no return". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  19. ^ "Nothing Like The Sun, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 November 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  20. ^ Siobhán Bourke, Jane Daly (ed.). "The Revenant". Irish Playography. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  21. ^ "The Revenant". The Revenant Theatre Company. Retrieved 20 October 2009.[permanent dead link]
  22. ^ "New album next year, says Gavin Friday". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  23. ^ "Gavin Friday signs to Rubyworks: new album on the way". GavinFriday.com. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  24. ^ "Sign up for news about Gavin Friday – catholic – the forthcoming album". GavinFriday.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  25. ^ Brady, Tara (7 September 2010). "Shimmying his way back into the limelight". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  26. ^ "Full cast and crew for Disco Pigs". IMDb.com. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  27. ^ "Breakfast on Pluto interview with Pat McCabe and Neil Jordan". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 January 2006.
  28. ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 12 Jun 1994". ARIA. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  29. ^ "Coil Discography". Brainwashed.com. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  30. ^ Q 'releasing' U2 Achtung Baby covers album feat. Jack White, Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Killers & more... Archived 15 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Q the Music, 2011-10-10
  31. ^ "Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  32. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  33. ^ Petersen, Anne Helen (22 November 2015). "Inside Enya's Irish Kingdom". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  34. The Irish Independent
    . 6 December 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2024.

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