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)
==Links to Peel==
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 ==
*None
==Sessions==
* Both sessions released on Garden Of The Arcane Delights • The John Peel Sessions 4AD / BBC. #1 released on 12" - John Peel Session 19.11.1983 Vinyl 180. #1 and "Carnival Of Light" from #2 released on 1981-1998 4AD.
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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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*Peel February March April 1984: Frontier (LP - Dead Can Dance) 4AD
*23 February 1984: Wild In The Woods (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*27 February 1984: The Fatal Impact (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*29 February 1984: Ocean (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*03 March 1984 (BFBS): Ocean (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*12 March 1984 (BBC World Service): Ocean (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*Peel March 1984: Wild In The Woods (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*17 March 1984 (BFBS): Wild In The Woods (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*19 August 1984 (BFBS): Carnival Of Light (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*26 August 1984 (BFBS): Flowers Of The Sea (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*02 September 1984 (BFBS): In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*17 September 1984: Carnival Of Light (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*20 September 1984: Flowers Of The Sea (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*Peel 1984 Bits And Pieces: Threshold (album - Dead Can Dance) 4AD CAD 404
*16 December 1984 (BFBS): Flowers Of The Sea (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
;1985
*01 April 1985: Carnival Of Light (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*07 April 1985 (BFBS): Carnival Of Light (12" - Garden Of The Arcane Delights) 4AD BAD 408
*03 December 1985: Avatar (album - Spleen And Ideal) 4AD CAD 512
*03 December 1985 (BBC World Service): Mesmerism (album - Spleen And Ideal) 4AD CAD 512
*07 December 1985 (BFBS): Avatar (album - Spleen And Ideal) 4AD CAD 512
;1986
*01 January 1986: De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow) (album - Spleen And Ideal) 4AD CAD 512
*18 January 1986 (BFBS): Mesmerism (album - Spleen And Ideal) 4AD CAD 512
;1987
*29 June 1987: Frontier (v/a album - Lonely Is An Eyesore) 4AD
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Official site
*Discogs
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