Gavin Friday
Gavin Friday was the lead singer and principal visionary of one of Ireland's most ambitious, challenging The Virgin Prunes.
After leaving the Prunes in 1986, he teamed up with pianist Maurice Roycroft (whom Friday renamed The Man Seezer).
The duo's 1989 debut, ‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves’, found him making unexpected moves into a sort of modern-day cabaret style, albeit with all the Bowie-isms of his vocal delivery intact.
In 1993, Friday and Roycroft collaborated with Bono to write three tracks for the Jim Sheridan directed and Oscar nominated film ‘In the Name of the Father’ which included the lead track of the same name and ‘You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart’ as performed by Sinéad Ó’Connor.
The work ‘Angel’ from 1995’s ‘Shag Tobacco’, found its way onto the movie soundtrack for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and more soundtrack success continued for Friday and Roycroft in the form of the score for the movie ‘The Boxer’, again directed by Jim Sheridan, in 1998.
In 2002, Friday and Roycroft again collaborated with Bono on the work, ‘Time Enough For Tears’, which was the lead song from another Oscar nominated Jim Sheridan movie ‘In America’
