6.72°C Ben Wood and The Bad Ideas are set to feature on a compilation album being released in New York. The collection is a tribute to the life of Poly Styrene, frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, who died in April after a long battle with cancer.
The band have recorded a version of the X-Ray Spex song “Obsessed With You”, which will feature alongside other bands’renditions.
Lead singer Ben Wood of Colchester said, “This is a great opportunity and a nice bite of the Big Apple for The Bad Ideas. We are really pleased to be one of only two bands from the UK featured on the record; the rest are all American. It is important to have our stamp as Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex were from London. We are proud to be flying the Union Jack across the pond.”
The Essex-based band are due to release the single on iTunes as well as other internet retailers on September 26 through Back2Forward Records. The band’s debut album is due for release later this year.
The X-Ray Spex tribute album is due for release on the internet and in physical form at Halloween, and all proceeds will go to a charity of the Poly Styrene family’s choice.
