Tomorrow Belongs to Me
A musical/visual tribute to 20th Century German Music, Art, Film and Literature
Tomorrow Belongs To Me was Gavin Friday’s two-night tribute to German culture, performed at Liberty Hall on July 27 and 28, 2006.
Sponsored by Beck’s, Gavin also contributed to the brewer’s label art project. Other artists participating included Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koons.
Gavin: “It’s a bit more than a one man show, I open up my pocket and lots of people come out! I don’t know if it’s the Killiney air but since I moved there I’ve started writing again seriously, like a madman actually, and I was asked earlier in the year, by the Dublin Theatre Festival, if I’d put on ‘Ich Liebe Dich’, the Kurt Weill tribute I did a few years back.
In the end it wasn’t going to happen, the time wasn’t right, but I started asking myself why I like things German and I think it all goes back to when I was a kid, the profound effect of seeing ‘Cabaret’, then Bowie brought me to Berlin – making albums like Low – and Iggy with Lust for Life. Then you discover Can, Neu, Kraftwerk… and I realised I could develop a show around that.
I started looking at the old movies, at the art and intelligence of the country in the C20th. Everyone looks at the arsehole Hitler but what that country produced was unbelievable! And the show is not just German artists but artists who lived in Germany for a few years, people who wrote about Germany, people who recorded in Germany.”
“It’ll be theatre, rock, pop, electronic, visuals, acting, singing, performing, showing extracts of movies – it’s humorous and it’s dangerous, a bit of everything!
If you look at the way that music is changing, with the download revolution, none of us can imagine what will happen in the next ten years and I believe the rock show too has to be reinvented – how people perform must be reinvented. The reason U2 are successful as a live band is that they reinvent their show all the time and they put the money into it. And even if the lemon doesn’t work they still get into it ! And there’s no product behind this show. Why can’t there just be a passion ? It will be so inviting and beautiful, imagine having fun with Friday!”
