Indie rock queen Courtney Barnett has teamed with American star Jack White to tackle a controversial song that has become sacred to alternative music fans in recent years, Shivers. 
Molly Meldrum banned the The Boys Next Door's 1979 version - sung by Nick Cave at just 18 and penned by the late cult songwriter Rowland S. Howard when he was only 16 - because it includes the opening line "I've been contemplating suicide / but it really doesn't suit my style."
Barnett has received glowing reviews so far, which is no mean feat as Shivers has variously been a millstone or a totem for anyone involved. The Screaming Jets were pilloried for covering it in 1992, despite doing a creditable job, while Marie Hoy was praised for her version in the movie Dogs in Space, which starred Michael Hutchence.
Whilst it was Howard's most popular and acclaimed song, he said Cave's famously pained delivery departed from the irony he intended when he wrote it. Howard didn't like playing it after that as he considered Cave's Shivers a cover version.
Similarly the song came to set a template for Nick Cave's gothic stage persona and angst-ridden vocals right at the start of his career.
In recent years Spoon's Britt Daniel did a terrific version with his side-project, The Divine Fits. But in general, alternative music fans don't have much time for anything bar versions sung by Cave or Howard.
White produced the song and on   October 16 it will be out as a 7-inch vinyl release.