{"id":316300,"date":"2026-02-25T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316300\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:21:11","slug":"gavin-friday-i-had-my-manhood-hanging-in-front-of-2000-people-the-crowd-went-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316300\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Friday: \u2018I had my manhood hanging in front of 2,000 people\u2026 the crowd went mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Dublin songwriter and singer on the death of Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, the night at Carnegie Hall he\u2019ll never forget and how he ended up baring all on stage while supporting The Clash\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gavin Friday. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e4361082-5eff-4fac-b96e-62cd9205f1df.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gavin Friday. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gavin Friday is singer, songwriter and composer from Ballygall, Co Dublin. He was a teenager when he met Bono and Guggi. While Bono went on to form U2, Guggi and Friday became founding members of the Virgin Prunes. Friday has worked on soundtracks, including for Breakfast on Pluto and Romeo + Juliet. He now lives in Dublin with his partner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dublin songwriter and singer on the death of Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, the night at Carnegie Hall he\u2019ll never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29425,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-316300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aoife-rooney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}