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E-mailFrom Ballymun to Carnegie Hall: An evening with Gavin Friday and friends
Irish singing star Gavin Friday, former singer with the infamous Virgin Prunes and a close friend of U2’s Bono, has assembled some of his most famous friends for a very special one night only concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday night.
“Expect the unexpected, from Joel Grey to Courtney Love, from U2 to Lydia Lunch. It’s a cocktail,” Friday tells Irish Central.
Scheduled to appear just days before his 50th birthday on Thursday, the mysterious rock singer is inviting Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton for individual performances, but not as U2 (as far as we know yet).
One thing is certain, it’s a rare opportunity to see the Irish super group playing individually or with unannounced friends, and tickets are being snapped up.
Slated to participate are Laurie Anderson, Andrea Corr, Courtney Love, Lydia Lunch, Maria McKee, Shane MacGowan, Scarlett Johansson and Rufus Wainwright. Joel Grey, the famous compere from the classic musical Cabaret will be there too (perhaps as Master of Ceremonies?).
“I saw Joel in Cabaret when I was a kid and he just blew my mind, I was obsessed with it,” says Friday.
“He opened up doors for me to the world of Kurt Weil, Berthold Brecht and Charles Isherwood. He was like a touchstone. It’s the era I grew up in Dublin listening to Bowie, T-Rex, and Roxy Music. One of the things about the Virgin Prunes was that we were more popular in Europe than we were anywhere else.”
Friday brought that torch song singing European influence to Bono and U2. “You become the people you hang around, so yeah I would have opened doors after the 1980’s when they had finished Rattle and Hum,” says Friday.
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