Dave Pearce

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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, Doha.  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.

Dave kickstarted the New Year with a marathon 4 hour Dance Anthems takeover on NYE “Live” on BBC Radio 2 and two albums in the Top Ten UK Album Dance Chart iTUNES

2018 was 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 also championed new Trance Music in 2018 with his Delirium Trance Compilations with Delirium Trance 2018 (which went Top Ten in the UK iTunes Dance chart in January 2018.) His next 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 saw 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.

Dave has held numerous residencies at top international venues including Ministry Of Sound in London, Eden Ibiza and BCM Mallorca.

In addition to Djing extensively Dave has been spending time during the last few 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 2017 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 and hosted the Radio 1 Drivetime show. 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 TV with Paul Oakenfold and Goldie. He has also made numerous shows and specials for BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 , Commercial radio and even BBC Radio 4

Dave has DJ”d alongside some of Dance music’s biggest names including Faithless, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Paul Van Dyk , Steve Aoki, Nicky Romero and many more.

Dave has also been responsible for numerous hit records through his Nulife label record 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"