Category — Releases

Gavin Friday and Dave Ball’s cover of Suicide’s ‘Ghostrider’ is now available on vinyl and for download from Blast First Petite.

The single was recorded as part of a 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP tribute series to the Suicide vocalist Alan Vega. The download comes in two formats: mp3 and high quality lossless FLAC file. It includes the single’s artwork.

Buy the vinyl 10″ or Download ‘ Ghostrider’ . The limited edition vinyl 10″ of the song contans additional tracks by Thomas Brinkmann (‘Diamonds, Furcoats and Champagne’ ) and Alan Vega (‘Puss On Tha Time Warp’). It is also available as Limited Edition Radio CD.

Listen to the song on MySpace.

Gavin Friday sings the song ‘Lipstick’ on Irish band Preachers Son’s album ‘Life, Love and Limb’.

Preachers Son are Kila’s Brian Hogan, Engine Alley’s Emmaline Duffy-Fallon and José Carlos Anselmo Flores. They recorded their debut album with producer Ciaran Cahill and it was mixed by Dave Bascombe (who also worked on Gavin Friday’s own “Adam ‘n’ Eve”). Their first single ‘X For Sandra’ is being released on Reekus on April 16th. The album is currently being mastered and will be out later this year.

Listen to Gavin Friday sing Lipstick in full on the band’s website.

Gavin Friday’s song ‘Angel’ is featured on ‘Odyssey’, a 3-CD set of producer William Orbit’s work compiled for Ministry of Sound, due out on 25th January.

‘Odyssey’ is Orbit’s first compilation. It features 42 tracks divided into 3 discs (see tracklisting). Discs 1 and 2 are unmixed, with many tracks reinterpreted to a greater or lesser extent, and Disc 3 is a continuous mix. Orbit has written sleeve notes on each track and invites fans to add their own memories and information on the tracks through Twitter (@WilliamOrbit) and his blog.

• Odyssey on Amazon.com
• Odyssey on Amazon.co.uk

Gavin Friday and Dave Ball (Soft Cell) have recorded a version of the Suicide song ‘Ghostrider’ as part of a 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP tribute series to the Suicide vocalist Alan Vega. The song will be released early 2009 on Blast First Petite. Artists taking part in the tribute are Bruce Springsteen, Grinderman (Nick Cave), Primal Scream and Peaches among others.
Read more about the project on Blast First’s website and alanvega.com.

update: The song will now be released in May 2010.

Back in May, producer Howie B presented a podcast for Fabric. During the second part he played his remix of Gavin’s version of Singin’ in the Rain, originally recorded for Lemon Magazine.
Listen to Gavin Friday – Singin’ In The Rain (Mixed by Howie B) – Dub Plate and the entire podcast. Or download the full podcast mp3 from Odeo.

Gavin has contributed to a charity single, “The Ballad of Ronnie Drew” in honour of The Dubliner’s singer Ronnie Drew. The proceeds will benefit the Irish Cancer Society at Ronnie Drew’s request. The track will be available in Ireland only as a download on Friday, February 22 and week later on CD.

The song was written by Bono, The Edge, Simon Carmody and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and features appearances by Kila, the Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, the Frames’ Glen Hansard, Sinead O’Connor, Andrea Corr, Damien Dempsey, Ronan Keating, Chris de Burgh, members of the Dubliners, and Gavin Friday.

Gavin’s featured in an additional bonus clip on the latest DVD of RTE’s candid camera show ‘Naked Camera‘. In the clip you see Gavin being picked up by a rather odd taxi driver.

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