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David James Ball (born 3 May 1959) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and the Grid, and collaborated with other producers including Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide.
David « Dave » James Ball (né le 3 mai 1959 à Chester) est un musicien et producteur de musique électronique anglais, membre des groupes [[Soft Cell] et The Grid. Biographie. Ball grandit à Blackpool avec un père adoptif sévère, ingénieur, qui meurt d'un cancer peu avant qu'il fasse des études [1].
Soft Cell is a British electronic pop duo formed by singer Marc Almond and instrumentalist Dave Ball in 1980. The website features their biography, discography, tour dates and merchandise.
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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...
The duo behind Britain's first synth-pop band look back on their career, from "Tainted Love" to new songs and a musical. Read the interview with Dave Ball, who co-wrote and played on all their hits.
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4 janv. 2021 · Soft Cell’s Dave Ball: “To my mind, Kraftwerk are as influential as The Beatles” By Danny Scott. ( Computer Music, Future Music, emusician, Keyboard Magazine ) published 4 January 2021. The synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple. (Image credit: Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
Dave Ball is a British musician who co-founded the synth-pop duo Soft Cell with Marc Almond in 1979. He also released a solo album, In Strict Tempo, and formed The Grid, a pioneering acid house act.
11 juin 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 ...
