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- Synth pop pioneers Soft Cell – legendary frontman Marc Almond and producer/instrumentalist Dave Ball – will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of classic album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret with a series of UK live shows starting 10th November.
www.on-magazine.co.uk/interview/marc-almond-dave-ball-soft-cell/
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Ball and future Soft Cell partner Marc Almond met at Leeds Polytechnic in 1976, where they were both studying Fine Art, and started writing and recording together in 1978, before performing their first gig together as Soft Cell at Leeds Polytechnic in December 1979.
Jun 20, 2020 · It is now more than 40 years since Ball first met Marc Almond on his first day at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977. Four years later the duo would be number one in 17 countries with their synthpop...
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That story of Britain’s very first synth-pop duo can be traced back to Dave Ball’s enrolment day at Leeds Polytechnic. “I had to find someone who knew where to go,” he says. “I saw this guy in gold-lamé jeans, leopard-skin top, dyed black hair and loads of make-up, and thought he must be in the art department! Marc was actually the first person I s...
“Marc and I were still living in a bedsit in Leeds,” recalls Dave. “There was a payphone in the corridor downstairs and Marc took the call. I heard him screaming. It was insane. We were in the charts and being asked to do Top Of The Pops! “It was all so odd. We were living in this awful housing-association block, being flown on Concorde to New York...
With work starting on their second album, The Art Of Falling Apart, it was clear the Soft Cell sound was evolving. “The first album was a perfect pop album, but the second was more grown-up,” says Dave. “We had more life experience and were a bit jaded from being in a successful band. We were knackered and had taken too many drugs!” The LP’s first ...
No one can be sure what Soft Cell’s sound would have evolved into if the band had stayed together, but Dave believes house music, which dominated the end of the decade’s dance scene, would have made its mark. It’s a fascinating idea, but the reunion record – Cruelty Without Beauty– that came in 2002 was a simpler evolution of the musical DNA Soft C...
Jun 11, 2020 · As for Almond’s 22-year-old musical partner Dave Ball, “he has the build and moustache of a second-row rugby forward charmingly combined with the gentle face and dark brown voice of a trainee...
Aug 9, 2019 · Marc Almond recalls how Soft Cell’s sudden success ultimately destroyed them, and how he and Dave Ball overcame their differences for a triumphant reunion. Alex Green reports.
6 days ago · Happily, Marc Almond says he’s learning to embrace ‘queer’, not least because he now finds the word ‘gay’ “a bit jazz hands”. He lets out a laugh. “Queer has a kind of darker affinity to it – it covers people who aren’t in the mainstream, who are out on the periphery,” he says. The sort of people, of course, that Almond ...
Marc Almond & Dave Ball of Soft Cell are back on the road to play classic album 'Non Stop Erotic Cabaret' in full. Here's a chat with both.
