Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were'
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
'I have a fear of grown men in short trousers' … Gavin Friday Photograph: James Mooney
I like this article/interview in the Guardian
You can't be what you were.
You can't go back to what London was like in the early 80s.
We're going through a recession now, but the recession we had then, with the steel claw of Maggie Thatcher bashing anything that moved, was a very different environment.
With revolutionary bands that were run by angst, or anger, or kicking against the so-called pricks, you can't suddenly reinvent that.
