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Jun 7, 2023 · It’s fair to say that Dave Ball has been in the wars over the past year, with a fall downstairs the prelude to a succession of health issues, but the Soft Cell keyboard player sounds in...
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Jun 20, 2020 · THESE days Dave Ball, the other one in Soft Cell, is 61 years old, and living with synths and keyboards and a heart condition in south-east London.
Ball was born in Chester, Cheshire, England, later adopted and brought up in Blackpool. He studied at Arnold School before studying art at Leeds Polytechnic, where he met Marc Almond; they formed the synthpop duo Soft Cell in 1978, the band lasting until 1984.
Jun 11, 2020 · Dave Ball, now 61, is breaking a lifetime of perceived impassive silence to promote his autobiography, Electronic Boy: My Life In and Out of Soft Cell. He wrote it at the urging of friends.
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Soft Cell’s third album proper, 1984’s This Last Night In Sodom, is as close as you’ll get to hearing a band splitting up in the studio. It’s a maelstrom of drugs, rough sex and the sense that at least one, if not both, of its wired musicians will die on tape before the final song. Yet even at that time, Marc and Dave weren’t thinking that Soft Cel...
The chance to finally meet up again was instigated when Universal’s reissue department suggested a Soft Cell boxset to mark 40 years since Marc and Dave first met at Leeds Polytechnic in 1978. Universal had previously had success with Marc’s acclaimed solo boxset Trials Of Eyeliner in 2016 and both were separately receptive to the idea. However, Ma...
In one respect, it’s little wonder their pop stardom failed to last, considering they began as the archetypal art-college band, making what Marc calls: “TV advert-type weird little songs with my voice put through all kinds of effects so that I sounded robotic and inhuman… We thought we’d be really lucky if we could maybe get to support The Human Le...
Although they kept it together enough to record debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, Marc and Dave quickly took advantage of fame. Dave acknowledges: “Suddenly, you’ve got money in your pocket, people are offering you various powders and pills, the clubs that would normally bar you are inviting you in for nothing and you’re attracting potential par...
Sep 7, 2021 · Soft Cell masterminds Dave Ball and Marc Almond look back on the “enjoyable chaos” of Britain’s first ever synth-pop duo. This was the reunion no one had seen coming. The fractious ...
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Jun 23, 2020 · Born into a single-parent household in Chester in 1959, Ball was given up for adoption when he was 18 months old. He grew up in Blackpool with adoptive parents Donald and Brenda Ball – who changed his first name from Paul to David – and younger sister Susan, also adopted.
