Saturday 31st January

7.30pm - 1.00am

DAVE PEARCE
Trance Anthems 

Support

PANEQ
Fearuring Paige Macauldy (LIVE)

at The Gaiety Southsea, Portsmouth 

ABOUT DAVE PEARCE 

Dave Pearce has been a driving force in the UK Dance Scene for many years. Known for his uplifting energetic “Big Room Anthemic Trance “and “Dance Anthems” sets which feature many of the classics he helped break through his legendary Dance Anthems Radio 1 show, his Ibiza residencies and of course his iconic Nulife record label.

Known by many as the “King of UK Trance Anthems”, 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.

Still at the top of his game, April 2024 saw Dave marking 6 years in the Top Ten Official UK Dance Album charts with his Number 1 Trance Anthems album making it the longest selling dance album in the Top Ten.

2024 saw Dave headline shows in Ibiza legendary superclubs "Amnesia" and "Eden" as well as countless mainstage performances at UK Festivals and UK Club appearances. He also supported the Pet Shop Boys on their 2024 UK Arena Tour.

2025 kicked off to a flying start on New Years Day with a sold out London show at The Steel Yard for "Trance Sanctuary" and now Dave is on a huge 2025 tour encompassing numerous Festivals and clubs including Ministry Of Sound.

He will be appearing in Europe once again, with tour dates in Malta and Ibiza this summer. Dave has also been invited to support the Pet Shop Boys on their iconic Dreamworld Tour at Cardiff Castle and Warwick Castle this summer.

Dave first came to national prominence in the mid 90’s creating and presenting the cult BBC Radio 1 show “Dance Anthems” which he hosted for over 10 years, attracting record audiences of millions of listeners and the third highest audience reach on the station.

For many years he also hosted the Radio 1 Drivetime show with an audience of over 4 million listeners a day. Previously he presented the Breakfast show on London’s KISS FM. He has also presented numerous Dance TV Shows including the ITV1 clubbing series Dance Years, MTV Dancefloor Chart, MTV Top 100 Dance Anthems and shows on Chartshow TV, The Box and Clubland TV.

Recently he presented a Dance Documentary on Sky Arts with Paul Oakenfold and Goldie and made many shows and specials for BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, UK commercial radio and BBC Radio 4.

Before all that back in the 80's, Dave played a major part in the emerging UK Club and Dance scene. He created the BBC’s first Hip Hop Show ‘A Fresh Start To The Week’ – he is featured on the iconic Public Enemy album “It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back”.

Dave became the A&R director of  Urban Records and signed the UK’s biggest selling Acid House album – ‘Urban Acid’ and iconic house track Jimi Polo – ‘Better Days’. He worked on the BBC's first Dance Music show on BBC 2 – ‘Behind the Beat’.

Dave was one of the first BBC DJs to play House music weekly on his BBC Radio London shows and did the first UK Radio interview with house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles and also the last major interview with him on a BBC 6 Music special before Frankie sadly passed away.

A longer biog of Dave's music history is available at www.davepearce.co.uk 

Dave has also been responsible for signing many Top Ten hit anthems through his Nulife record label including the platinum selling Ian Van Dahl ‘Castles in the Sky’ and the UK No 1 hit 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’ and Top 40 hits including Love Inc ‘You’re a Superstar’, Lou Reed vs Groovefinder ‘Satellite of love’, Warp Brothers ‘Phat Bass’ and True Steppers feat Victoria Beckham ‘Out Of Your Mind

Dave has featured in DJ Magazines Top 100 DJs in the world three times and has worked alongside some of the world’s most prolific DJ's.  Dave also champions new music on his weekly Delirium podcast and syndicated radio show which is regularly ranked No1 in the world on Mixcloud’s Global Trance and Progressive chart.

Dave’s own music productions on his Delirium label have been supported by artists including Paul Oakenfold, Armin Van Buuren , Markus Schulz, Above & Beyond and Ferry Courston.
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During lockdown Dave created a weekly Trance Anthems live stream reaching audiences of over 500k. It now continues on Sunday nights at 7pm on homerave.tv.