Cold Dance

Cold Dance was an English gothic post punk band, between 1982 and 1985, formed from a Hull pub covers band called Useless Information, the brainchild of drummer Kevin Hunter and bass player Paul Green. The original line-up of Cold Dance included Kevin Hunter and Paul Green, with Tim Donovan on keyboards and Tim Arundell, Useless Information’s former sound technician, on guitar. The final piece of the jigsaw, vocalist Diane Dubois, joined after she and several other interesting candidates auditioned for the role.
(read more on Hull Music Archive)
==Links to Peel==
John Peel liked their debut EP – the highest stamp of approval possible – and played it many times, to the band’s delight. One night, Peel announced on his show that he was coming up to Hull to play in a charity football match at Boothferry Park and said that he hoped that “some of the local bands would drop by the dressing room and pay [him] a visit—especially this lot,” and, with that, he started to play the Cold Dance EP. Of course, the band were overjoyed, and accepted the invitation. As things transpired, Peel came to Hull but didn’t play in the football match as it was around the time that he had come off his bike en route to Broadcasting House, and he was still feeling a bit under par, so the band was able to have a nice long chat with him before the other DJs came off the field and hit the showers. Diane thanked Peel for playing the band’s record, and he replied by thanking the band for making great music; the band were understandably elated by his comment. Years later, Kevin had a chat with Peel backstage at Reading Festival and was delighted and a wee bit flabbergasted to discover that Peel remembered the records and said that he would have liked to have heard a session from Cold Dance – a possibility that came tangibly close for the band on several occasions but never quite materialised.   
==Shows Played==
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*24 April 1984: Choice (7" - No Glamour In Industry) Xcentric Noise
*Peel April May 1984: Choice (7" EP - No Glamour In Industry) Xcentric Noise FIFTH 1
*30 May 1984: Choice (7" EP - No Glamour In Industry) Xcentric Noise FIFTH 1
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*06 August 1985: Medusa (7") Xcentric Noise
==External Links==
*Hull Music Archive
*Discogs
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