Topic: Alan Vega

Single: Ghostrider – Gavin Friday & Dave Ball

Ghostrider - Gavin Friday & Dave Ball (single)

10″ single released on BLAST First (petite)
Catalogue #: PTYT 027
Release date: May 31st, 2010

“Mr Gavin Friday, solo artist, one time singer with The Virgin Prunes in a unique collaboration with David Ball, musical maverick of Soft Cell & The Grid and now of The Nitewreckers create a specially recorded, re-coded, poptastic dancefloor shudder-fest version of Suicide’s “Ghostrider”.

Gavin Friday and Dave Ball record Suicide’s Ghostrider

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.