Guests Gavin Friday, Paul Page of Whipping Boy and music journalist Billy O hAnluain join Vincent Woods to celebrate the spirit and music of Lou Reed.
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Gavin Friday – This is who I am – Sunday Times 25-11-2012
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“Sometimes I’m 53, and other times I’m 15, which is a tip to Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray.”
Gavin Friday’s Weekend Tipple – Dubliner Magazine 15-3-2012
From the Dubliner magazine, 15-3-2012
Interview (Dutch): “The only role that suits me is that of the outcast” – Handelsbeurs Magazine
Gavin Friday plays the Handelsbeurs in Gent in February – the show is sold out. Here’s an interview (in Dutch) from the venue’s magazine.
Gavin Friday on RTE 1’s The Week – David Bowie 65
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Gavin Friday, John Kelly and Gerry Leonard talk to RTE’s Last Week about David Bowie who turned 65 on January 8th.
Gavin Friday on the Dave Fanning Show – David Bowie 65
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Gavin Friday, Joe Elliot and Bernard Clarke in conversation with RTE’s Dave Fanning about David Bowie who turned 65 on January 8th.
Interview: “I’m acting my age, not my shoe size” – Irish Daily Star
Mark Kavanagh talks to Gavin Friday on the eve of his shows in Limerick and Dublin.
“I love the intimacy of live gigs. I love going to gigs. I like to be able to see the music, feel it.”
Interview (Dutch): “The deeper the recession, the more interesting art is” – De Morgen
Nice two-page spread from Belgian newspaper ‘De Morgen’ (19-11-2011)
Interview (Dutch): “I was a complicated, shy, difficult child” – Humo
This week’s Humo Magazine (Belgium) features a 3-page-interview with Mr Friday
Interview: “I think music should have a roof on it” – Something for the weekend
The Irish Sun newspaper (“Something for the weekend” – 12-08-2011) talks to Gavin Friday about ‘catholic’, Irish family relationships and his upcoming gig at Electric Picnic.
On Irish fathers: “I started writing a lot after the death of my father. Coming from an Irish background family relationships can be strange. Over the generations there was a lot of conflict with fathers and their sons. I didn’t get on great with my own Da. He didn’t understand me and we had this sort of war. “These Irish men didn’t know how to show compassion or love to their own children so it was like this monkey on yer back. But when they’re gone, you go `Wow, is that what I was fighting against? Was that what was driving me?’ That experience had a profound effect on me, but not in a negative way because these are the people who bring you into the world. But the truth is that most of them love their children, they just aren’t very good at showing it. They had the Catholic Church lashing them around the head for decades. Then our generation came along and suddenly started talking back.”We weren’t looking at the Catholic Church or any government for guidance. We were listening to David Bowie and the Sex Pistols, so you told yer Da to `fuck off’ and they thought that we were from outer space.”
On Electric Picnic: “I’m very nervous on one level but then again, I’m very excited. “Although I’m glad I’m playing in a tent. I think music should have a roof on it. I’m on about 9.30pm on the Friday but I don’t think there will be a lot of the Catholic material in the set. I’m looking at dipping into the last 20 years of my career, I might even open with a revamped Virgin Prunes song.”
(thx to John for the photo & ocr scan)
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