Biography
Gavin Friday is an Irish composer, singer-songwriter, actor and painter. Born Fionán Martin Hanvey in Dublin in 1959, he was a founding member of the post-punk band The Virgin Prunes and has maintained a long collaboration with musician Maurice Seezer since the mid-1980s.
Friday has composed scores for several films, including In the Name of the Father (1993), The Boxer (1997), Disco Pigs (2001), In America (2003) and Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005). He has also appeared as an actor in Disco Pigs (2001) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
