Live music

Gavin Friday is touring on the back of his latest album, catholic, his first in 15 years. As he remarks at the Olympia, the project has been received far better in Europe than it has here, where he is more often written off as Bono’s best friend.

This seems a shame. Since he first emerged fronting the Virgin Prunes in the 1970s, Friday has engaged with the notion of Irishness as no other music artist of his generation has done. This is nowhere more evident than on catholic, whose cover features him dressed as Michael Collins lying in state.