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Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance is an Australian post-punk group from Melbourne, Australia, formed in August 1981 with Paul Erikson on bass guitar, Lisa Gerrard (ex-Microfilm) on vocals and percussion, Simon Monroe (Marching Girls) on drums and Brendan Perry (also of Marching Girls) on vocals and guitar. Gerrard and Perry were a couple who met as members of Melbourne's Little Band scene. In May 1982, the band left Melbourne in Australia and moved to London, England, where they signed with alternative rock label 4AD … (read more at Wikipedia)

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Peel seemed to have discovered the band in 1983 and invited them to do a session for his show well before they released a single or an album. A year later, they also did a second session. Tracks from the group's singles and albums from 1984 and 1985 featured regularly on Peel's shows though he subsequently lost interest. The group continued making records until 1998 when they split. They reformed in 2011 when they released and toured a new album, Anastasis. They released a new album in 2018 called Dionysus.

Festive Fifty Entries[]

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Sessions[]

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DEAD CAN DANCE John Peel 19th November 1983

1. Recorded: 1983-11-19. First broadcast: 28 November 1983. Repeated: 15 December 1983, 26 January 1984.

  • Instrumental (Orion) / Labour Of Love / Ocean / Threshold

2. Recorded: 1984-06-02. First broadcast: 13 June 1984. Repeated: 04 July 1984, 20 September 1984

  • Flowers Of The Sea / Penumbra / Panacea / Carnival Of Light

Other Shows Played[]

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Wild in the Woods (Remastered)

1984
1985
1986
1987

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