Bono attends Wolf launch

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Bono, Gavin Friday and Marie Donnelly (Irish Hospice) attended the ‘invitation only’ launch of Bono’s Peter and the Wolf paintings exhibition at City Hall in Dublin on Friday evening. Introduced by Barry Devlin, Gavin thanked everybody involved, as did Marie Donnelly. Bono then read from a prepared speech.

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Will the Real Gavin Friday Please Stand Up?

“Bono, Bono, Bono, Bono, nobody has had to learn to listen to that word more than me.”

Sounding a bit like Jan Brady, Gavin Friday tells the Sunday Independent about the difficulty being “Bono’s best friend.”

Perfect Circle of Friends

Bono and Gavin Friday attended an exclusive after-show party thrown by REM in Dublin Wednesday night. According to the Irish Mirror, Bono and Gavin partied with the members of REM, Michael Stipe’s family, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, and several other close friends at a private location.

“It was quite a small intimate affair,” a source told the Mirror. “They stayed there until the early hours of Thursday morning and seemed to have a lot of fun.”

French Retreat

According to the Sunday Independent, Bono will be heading to his home in the South of France tomorrow with his family and pals Gavin Friday, Guggi, and Simon Carmody for some well-deserved R&R.

Out for Art

The Edge and Bono attended the opening of artist Charlie Whisker’s exhibition at Solomon Gallery in Dublin last night. Whisker has contributed illustrations to several U2 album designs and is the artist who created the metal gates at Bono’s home. Whisker is also the man to whom Gavin Friday and Guggi turned to learn to paint when the Virgin Prunes ended. In January 1988, Whisker, Guggi, Bono and Gavin showed their work in an exhibition called ‘Four Artists, Many Wednesdays’.

The drummer talks

Larry Mullen guest presented Irish designer Lainey Keogh’s collection at the Brown Thomas Fashion Show in Dublin last night.

Many eyebrows were raised when, asked by host Cat Deely what U2 were up to, Larry answered – live on Irish television: “Same shit, different decade”. He seemed embarrassed at the crowd’s response.

Larry continued to reveal he had not been invited to the Golden Globe Award show.

The male celeb models, including The Edge were led by Gavin Friday, who walked down the stage to the end of the catwalk, unzipped his pants and kneeled as a 6ft inflatable spire, with red light on top popped up from between his legs. Edge exuded cool, while Guggi finished the set with his 5 sons – including toddler in pram.