Hot Press Magazine – 28-2-2013
From this week’s Hot Press Magazine, Gavin’s Bowie Essentials, in no particular order:
Gavin Friday’s Bowie Essentials – Hot Press magazine
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Gavin Friday’s Weekend Tipple – Dubliner Magazine 15-3-2012
From the Dubliner magazine, 15-3-2012
Interview (Dutch): “I was a complicated, shy, difficult child” – Humo
This week’s Humo Magazine (Belgium) features a 3-page-interview with Mr Friday
Review (French): “Spellbinding atmosphere” – Epicure
“Overall, the album’s atmosphere is spellbinding. The single Able is a great title for everyone’s ears.”
“Album of the Year” – Gavin Friday, catholic
Record dealer Johannes Bulthuis from Amsterdam writes in Parool magazine:
“As a seller in record shop Phantasio I try my hardest to flog this one. Already, this is the album of the year for me.”
Gavin Friday’s “Lord, I’m Comin'” in BillBoard’s “Death” Top 5
Gavin Friday’s song “Lord, I’m Comin'” from the album ‘catholic‘ is listed in BillBoard Russia’s “Top 5 Songs about Death”. From their September 2011 issue. (Thx to Leo)
Interview: “Songs about love will always be the truest” – Untitled Magazine
A 7-page Gavin Friday feature/interview in ‘Untitled Magazine‘ (previously known as Carson Magazine – the drama surrounding the name change is amusing – Google it…).
Colleen Nika asks Gavin what decisions went into making ‘catholic’ reality and whether his work on film scores influenced the compositional process:
“I wanted to make another album – the break didn’t necessarily need to last so long, but life gets in the way sometimes. I’d written a lot of songs over the years and I know I wanted to work with someone I’d never worked with before for this one. I knew I didn’t want to be a slave to ProTools, either. You can’t be too calculated going into the process – I wanted to leave room for possibilities. I wanted edgy but someone that I understand -Ken Thomas name came up and it made sense. He’d been around longer than me, worked with Cocteau Twins and Throbbing Gristle, and brings a great drama to his production.”
“It definitely influenced it. I wanted acoustic songs that became cinematic soundscapes. The whole album feels so English; we recorded it in Dublin in my house, but mixed it in Yorkshire. Thomas’s son helped engineer it and I invited friends to play on some tracks – there was a great synchronicity between all of us. We had so many songs to play with, but once we finished “Lord I’m Comin’; and we knew we were onto a winner. It only took us six weeks to record the whole thing.”
Order Untitled magazine (issue #2, 2011) from their website.
Review (French) : “Sweet ballads like whispered confessions” – Hard Rock magazine
A positive 7 out of 10 from France’s Hard Rock magazine: “With his voice and velvet arrangements, Gavin Friday envelops the listener and caresses them as if he’s pacifying his own evils. It’s a beautiful “crooner” CD which in the end is crowned in bliss by the Nick Cave-ian “Lord I’m Coming”.”
Interview (French) : “The child has grown up a lot” – Elegy
Elegy magazine from France asks: “Do you still feel able to see the world with the innocent and primitive eyes of a child?”
Gavin: “I always relate to the child in me. But the child has grown up a lot.”
Elegy: “Are your lyrics always about your personal emotions?”
Gavin: “Yes, they always have been, more or less.”
Elegy: “The best songs on the album talk about love, or the loss of love…”
Gavin: “Up to a certain point, yes. But the loss must be confronted to make it positive. Otherwise we let it turn us into victims.”
Review (German): “An overcast, melancholic sound…” – Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Germany writes that songs like ‘Perfume’ and ‘Able’ remind them of Barry Adamson and Angelo Badelamenti. Not bad company. But they don’t like it much. Fair enough.
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