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’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.
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.
