Dead Can Dance announce Irish date!

jmc

The Olympia Theatre
proudly presents:
DEAD CAN DANCE
March 10th 2005
A Special Fully Seated Concert

Tickets from €38.50 (inc. booking fee) go on sale tomorrow (Saturday), October 30th at 9am from Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.

www.DeadCanDance.com
www.Brendan-Perry.com
www.LisaGerrard.com

Almost 25 years since they formed and nearly 10 years since Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard split to concentrate on solo careers, DEAD CAN DANCE have just announced that they are to return for a select tour that will take in a very special Irish concert in the intimate surroundings of Dublin's Olympia Theatre on March 10th 2005.

Returning to The Olympia for their first appearance here since 1996, Dead Can Dance will be performing works from their vast back catalogue as well as debuting new pieces at what is set to be a truly special evening.

Their Olympia date is the opening night of the tour that will take in Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, The Hague, Brussels, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, and Warsaw. They will also embark on a tour of the U.S. in September 2005.

Responsible for some of most truly original, evocative and beautiful music of the past 3 decades – both through their work in Dead Can Dance and their solo projects – Perry and Gerrard have honed and mutated music from so many times and time zones - sounds from the Renaissance and Middle Ages, from North Africa and the Mediterranean - much of it raised to dizzying peaks by Gerrard's extraordinary vocal talent.

In recent years, Gerrard has also become a much sought-after composer of soundtracks. In many ways this has been a logical progression.
Much of the work of Dead Can Dance had a cinematic quality that led to the group’s music being used in the cult movie ‘Baraka’, TV commercials and even a car chase scene in ‘Miami Vice’!

Among the films she has scored or contributed to are ‘Gladiator’, ‘Insider’, ‘Ali’, ‘Whale Rider’, ‘Heat’, ‘Baraka’, ‘Mission Impossible 2’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Tears of The Sun’, ‘Nadro’, ‘One Perfect Day’, ‘Passion of the Christ’, ‘Man on Fire’, ‘Layer Cake’, ‘Constantine and ‘El Nino de la Luna’.

Gerrard received Golden Globe nominations for ‘Insider’ and ‘Ali’, Grammy and Oscar Nominations and a Golden Globe Award for the score of Gladiator and four international awards for ‘Whale Rider’. She also wrote music for the mini-TV series Salem’s Lot and the San Francisco Ballet has performed to her work. Most recently, Gerrard worked on the film score for ‘Man on Fire’ starring Denzel Washington.

Now back home in Australia (she has previously lived in England and Ireland) she also collaborated with Irish composer, Patrick Cassidy for their Immortal Memory album - released on 4AD in January of this year.

Perry, meanwhile now lives in his mother’s home county of Cavan. Having released his ‘Eye of the Hunter’ album in 1999, he recently contributed vocals to the ‘Clouds Without Water’ by Zouk. In 2001 Perry established The Quivvy School of Samba (aka The Salamanders) with a small group of friends from the neighbouring town of Belturbet in order to facilitate the need for a musical collective that would cater for the needs of the local community.

- Background:
Over the course of their career, Dead Can Dance has featured a multitude of members, but two musicians have remained at the core of the band — guitarist Brendan Perry and vocalist Lisa Gerrard.

Perry had previously been the lead vocalist and bassist for the Australian-based punk band the Scavengers (he moved from London to New Zealand with his family when he was 14), but in 1980 Perry left the group and began experimenting with electronic music, particularly tape loops and rhythms.

In 1981, Perry formed Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard, Paul Erikson, and Simon Monroe. By 1982, Perry and Gerrard decided to relocate to London; Erikson and Monroe decided to stay in Australia.

Within a year, Dead Can Dance had signed a record deal with 4AD and in the spring of 1984, they released their self-titled debut album.

More at: www.deadcandance.com/faq.html

DISCOGRAPHY:
Dead Can Dance (4AD 1984)
Spleen And Ideal (4AD 1985)
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (4AD 1987)
The Serpent's Egg (4AD 1988)
Aion (4AD 1990)
Into The Labyrinth (4AD 1993)
Toward The Within (4AD 1994)
Spiritchaser (4AD 1995).

COMPILATIONS:
A Passage In Time (Rykodisc 1991)
1981-1998 box set (Rhino 2001)
Wake (4AD 2003)

VIDEOGRAPHY:
Toward The Within (Warners 1994).

bambam

wow, that came out of the blue. thanks for the heads up mate. Gonna see can I dig up some tickets this evening. I reckon this one is going to sell out quickly

Gyck

I just got tickets... I can't wait!