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They’ve been available from some outlets since early summer, but we thought we ought to flag up the latest pair of limited edition, 70th anniversary 10″s from Alan Vega before they disappear for good. Blast First Petite – the superb boutique label run by Mute’s Paul Smith – launched the 10″ series back in 2008, […]

"everyone from the Fall, PIL, New Order, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and even Bruce Springsteen are called in for reference in a brew that is dangerous, primal, and excessive."

Thanks to Dark Entries magazine some childhooddream comes a bit true as I am able to interview people whom I really admire and as it is all...

Duke Special is een Noord-Ierse singer songwriter met een gezonde en originele hang naar het verleden. Nick Cave, Elliott Smith, Tom Waits, Van Morrison en Randy Newman behoren tot zijn voorbeelden. Het werk van schrijver Berthold Brecht en componist Kurt Weil heeft een grote impact op dat van Duke. Niet zo gek dat in een gesprek mer Duke al gauw de naam valt van Gavin Friday, die andere Ier die al in de jaren tachtig het werk van Weil en Brecht aan de man bracht. Duke Special bracht onlangs een driedubbel cd uit. Maandag 26 april treedt hij op in Paradiso/Bitterzoet in Amsterdam en een dag eerder is Duke Special te zien op het Belgische Dranouter festival in De Panne. Zwartejas sprak begin april al met Duke Special in Amsterdam.

I learned about Gavin Friday through the soundtrack to IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER on which he does a fantastic, raspy duet with Bono for the ...

Redman AKA is a graphic designer who has worked with Gavin on various projects.

An Irishman blogs about working with Gav. Nice picture too.

"How do you move on from being Dublin's rock'n'roll Lucifer? By becoming U2's 'aesthetic midwife', outdressing 50 Cent and roping in the Salvation Army for your latest album. Mike Atkinson meets Gavin Friday."

Thanks to Odhran Smith as your man in Ireland, for this exclusive interview with Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes about his time with The Fall and his friend Mark E. Smith

It Might Get Loud, the movie featuring Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, got its first Irish airing last night at the IFC in Dublin – to a hugely positive r...

I remember. Look forward. Backwards. A day. Never to come. Looked for the words of a singer in a band. Lyrics with the 1991 If I Die, I Die… CD. Crazy. Lost the words. Bought the CD in 1998 d…

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1989. A man. Boy. No real man (not like fathers). Locked. Away. Stares. A river. Cries. A river. Need to sleep. Love lost. A fool romantic. Tortured heart. Could have been so good… for you. E…

[All throughout the month of November, all NW4NW entries will be based on requests made by you, dear readers. Because of the amount of requ...

Radio interview.

(RED)Nights concert, Oct 4, 2009

And now the last of my Halloween song favorites for this year ... Generally speaking, I don't have a lot of time for vampire stories. Sure, I love the notion of the undead, but I don't buy into the hoary...

It was an event I really meant to go to, but circumstances didn't allow it. For a start, it was wicked expensive. Secondly, I had a few other things cooking that weekend, and I just can't be everywhere at once....

10-4-09 Gavin Friday at Carnegie Hall NYC

So, only two weeks later... It all began with a dream. As teenagers, Bono and Gavin Friday would play music together or with friends, and ...

had the great pleasure of working the other night with two grand wizards of sound mixing, david schnirman (right) (FOH antony and the john...

It began like any other week... Dianna and Jackson emailed me a shot from the premiere of "Whip it", she is wearing Pamela Barish: But wh...

Yeah, women like to bash Courtney Love. Fuck em.

So, the other day in my post I mentioned where I was going to be Sunday night. And I promised to give you a full review of the show when I g...

Gavin Friday’s celebrity-filled birthday bash at Carnegie Hall ranks with U2’s current tour as the concert of th...