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.
Readers based in the USA might be interested to learn that part of the Virgin Prunes back catalogue is available from Amazon MP3 service. Full albums available are: The Moon Looked Down and Laughed, Over the Rainbow, Heresie and A New Form of Beauty.
Songs can be purchased either individually from $0.99 or as traditional albums for $12.99 (prices correct at the time of writing). Longer songs cost slightly more, apparently rising in 99c increments for each additional 7 minutes.
At present, the Amazon MP3 store is open to customers in the USA only.
Gavin Friday appears on the Hal Willner curated Harry Smith Project: Anthology American of Revisited 2-CD/2-DVD boxed set and the Harry Smith Project Live DVD, available separately.
Both releases, in stores now, feature highlights from a series of Harry Smith tribute concerts staged in London, New York and Los Angeles by Hal Willner in 1999 and 2001.
For more info, please check out this ecard.
No credit card? Get your local bookstore to order the Peter and the Wolf boxed set from Bloomsbury. Details as follows:
Peter & The Wolf
by Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer, and Bono
publishers: Bloomsbury
ISBN 0747570604
Audio CD on Hardback, boxed set 64 pages.
(Dutch book shops have the set listed at € 26,50.)
