Gavin Friday
Cast
- Born
- October 8, 1959 · Dublin, Ireland
- Birth name
- Fionan Martin Hanvey
The singer, composer and painter Gavin Friday was born in Dublin in October 1959. He was the founder member of the legendary Irish band The Virgin Prunes. His debut exhibition of paintings 'I Didn't Come Up The Liffey in a Bubble' was in 1988. Since 1985 he has composed and performed with his longtime musical partner Maurice Seezer, first in a a live setting, running a 'cabaret club' in Dublin called 'The Blue Jaysus'. In 1988 they were signed to Island Records. Friday-Seezer studio albums include 'Each man kills the thing he loves' and `Adam'n'Eve'. In 2002, Gavin Friday and the Friday/Seezer ensemble performed the Kurt Weill tribute 'Ich Liebe Dich' at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Cast
- 2026GuggiSelf
- 2025A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance (archiveFootage)
- 2023Peter & the WolfNarrator (voice)
- 2020The 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Virtual Red Carpet LiveSelf
- 2020Windmill LaneSelf - interviewee
- 2017Made in EuropeSelf
- 2013GuthSelf
- 2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. HowardSelf - Interviewee
- 2010Music of Ireland: Welcome to AmericaSelf
- 2010Music of Ireland: Welcome HomeSelf
- 2010Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Gavin FridaySelf
- 2009Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
- 2009Do you love me like I love youSelf
- 2008The CollaboratorsSelf
- 2007The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk MusicSelf
- 20074th Irish Film and Television AwardsSelf
- 2006Scott Walker: 30 Century ManSelf
- 2006A Portrait of an Artist: The Making of 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'Self
- 2005Breakfast on PlutoBilly Hatchett
- 2005Vertigo 2005: U2 Live from ChicagoSelf
- 2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf
- 2003Other Voices: Songs from a RoomSelf
- 2002Sex, Drugs & Ruck 'n' RollSelf
- 2001Disco PigsPaschal Stankard
- 2000Aidan Walsh: Master of the UniverseSelf - Interviewee
- 1995Top TenSelf
- 1986Virgin Prunes - Sons Find DevilsSelf
- 1983Virgin Prunes Live at the HaçiendaSelf
- 1982Whatever You Didn't GetSelf - performer
- 1982Non Stop PopSelf - performer
- 1962The Late Late ShowSelf
- —Peter and the WolfNarrator