Gavin Friday
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Gavin Friday was born in Dublin in October 1959. He survived a Christian Brothers education to become a singer, composer and painter. He was the founder member of the legendary avant-garde punk group 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, who was born in Dublin in September 1960. He studied piano, cello and harmony in the Royal Academy of Music and didn"t like punk. He went to Trinity College Dublin to study the bible, played piano in bars, conducted the College singers until he met Gavin through a mutual friend.
Friday-Seezer albums include "Each man kills the thing he loves", "Adam'n'Eve", and "Shag Tobacco". Film scores include "In the Name of the Father", "In America", "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and "The Boxer". Stage Shows include the Kurt Weill Extravaganza "ICH LIEBE DICH".
Gavin Friday stars alongside Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson and Brendan Gleeson in Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" (2006), a film based on the book that author Patrick McCabe dedicated to Gavin.
