Biography


Dave Pearce has been a driving force in the UK Dance Scene for many years. Known for his uplifting energetic “Big Room “ Trance “and “House Music” sets featuring many of the classics he helped break through his popular BBC Radio 1 Dance Anthems shows

Dave has sold over 1 million compilation CDs, achieving Gold Sales on albums for Ministry Of Sound, Universal and BMG, including Transcendental Euphoria, Dave Pearce Dance Anthems and Dave Pearce Trance Anthems

Dave has DJ’d at major festivals and clubbing destinations across the world including London, Ibiza, Athens, Bahrain, Dubai, Mumbai. He has played all the major UK Dance Festivals including Creamfields, Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem, Godskitchen Global Gathering . He has featured in the coveted DJ magazine “Top 100 Dj’s In The World Poll “ three times.

2018 has been a massive year for Dave Pearce seeing him achieve an unprecedented 4 consecutive Top Ten albums on @iTunes UK Dance Albums chart. His Trance Anthems album (March 2018) reached number 1 on the Official UK Dance album chart and became a best seller at Amazon, Asda and HMV – the latest Dance Anthems album (Nov 2018) Reached number 2 on the Official UK Dance Album chart

Dave has also ben championing new Trance music with his Delirium Trance Compilations and he kicked off this year in Jan with Delirium Trance 2018 which went Top Ten in the UK iTunes Dance chart in January 2018. His latest Delirium Summer Trance 2018 album hit the NO 2 spot on @iTunes Dance Album chart and No 3 on the Official UK Charts Dance Albums

2018 has seen Dave in high demand playing many festivals and major events including headlining Ministry Of Sound Arena at Knebworth Cool Britannia Festival, Leicester Racecourse, Blackpool Festival, Manchester Pride, Moondance Festival in London, 100 years of RAF Rave and major venues including Victoria Warehouse in Manchester

He rounds of 2018 with a Dance Anthems through the night takeover on Britain’s most listened to radio station BBC Radio2

Dave has held numerous residencies at top international venues including Ministry Of Sound in London, Eden Ibiza and BCM Mallorca.
Last year Dave headlined a sold out Trance Sanctuary event at The Egg in London and played major international venues including The Gallery at Ministry Of Sound in London and Es Paradis in Ibiza. He also played many UK Festivals.

Last September Dave was part of BBC radio 1’s 5oth birthday celebrations with Radio1 Vintage and he presented a Dance Music Documentary alongside Paul Oakenfold and Goldie on Sky TV. His Delirium Summer Trance album was rated as “Album of the month” in Mixmag

In addition to Djing extensively Dave has been spending time during the last two years in the studio returning to his trance roots. His debut release on his own Delirium label “So Damn Beautiful“ reached no2 in the Beatport Worldwide Trance chart and UK top 20 Cool Cuts Chart following it’s worldwide premiere on Armin Van Buuren’s show – A state Of Trance (with heavy support from the likes of Markus Schulz, Ferry Corsten, and Paul Oakenfold).
Since then he has had numerous Top Ten Beatport releases including Trance Sanctuary which was rated one of the Top 5 Tunes of Miami last year by Trance International

Dave first came to national prominence in the mid 90’s creating the cult
BBC Radio 1 show Dance Anthems which he presented for 13 years attracting record audiences of millions of listeners. He has also presented numerous Dance TV Shows including the ITV1 network clubbing series Dance Years, MTV Dancefloor Chart, MTV Top 100 Dance Anthems and shows on Chartshow TV, The Box and Clubland TV.

He has DJ”d alongside some of Dance musics biggest names including Faithless Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Paul Van Dyk , Steve Aoki, Nicky Romero .

Dave had numerous hit records on his Nulife label including Ian Van Dahl- Castles in the Sky and Rui Da Silva – Touch Me. He was also responsible for delivering the first hits for Above and Beyond under their alias Oceanlab with their Trance Anthem “Satellite”

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