National radio presenter and club DJ Dave Pearce has today announced he is to leave BBC Radio 1 after 13 years to start a new radio project. Pearce, who currently presents the hugely popular Friday night Dance Anthems show on BBC Radio 1, has had a long and prosperous career with the station, presenting everything from the Breakfast Show to Drive Time. His final Dance Anthems show will be broadcast on Radio 1 on Friday 26 September from 11pm-1am. Due to contractual obligations, details of Pearce’s new radio slot cannot currently be made public. A further announcement will be made to media over the coming weeks. Commenting on the end of his time at Radio 1, Pearce said: "I'll always be grateful to Matthew Bannister and Trevor Dann for their vision and giving me the chance to share my passion for music with millions of people. Thirteen years is a long time to be at one place and I am very excited about my new venture, but I will also be sad to leave behind some great broadcasters for whom I have a lot of respect." In addition to his radio work, Pearce has also established himself as one of the country's most in demand club DJs, with regular residencies in Ibiza, Mallorca and Tenerife. He has run record labels, including Nulife, where he had a string of top ten hits, hosted the Dance Years on ITV, and won a British Independent Film Award for Best Soundtrack for the movie SW9. In recent years Pearce has released a number of top selling dance compilation CDs, with total sales of over 1 million. His current Trance Anthems 2008 CD, released on Ministry of Sound in April, has sold over 150,000 copies so far, making him the biggest selling dance compilation DJ in the UK this year. Pearce first came to the airwaves after cutting his teeth on London's pirate radio stations before landing two groundbreaking shows on BBC Radio London. There he presented a dance show, one of the very first to play house music, as well as BBC Radio's very first hip hop show A Fresh Start to the Week - where he famously helped launch the careers of artists such as Public Enemy on whose landmark album - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - he also featured. After a daytime show on GLR, Pearce was snapped up by London's Kiss 100FM as part of the original lineup, where he presented the drivetime show and then the highly popular Dangerous Breakfast Show. After the success of Kiss, it wasn't long before Radio 1 Controller Matthew Bannister and Trevor Dann poached Pearce to join their newly revamped station. In 1995, Pearce started at Radio 1 on the Early Breakfast Show and within months he became the regular stand-in on Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show. A move to weekends followed, taking over from Danny Baker where Pearce introduced the Recovery Session - a breakfast show for ravers at Sunday lunchtimes. The next move was to the Drivetime Show in 1997 where he featured a daily half hour mix - The Mix at Six - and added over a million listeners. At the same time, he also created Dance Anthems, a Sunday night institution for clubbers reliving their weekend antics, which became an instant ratings hit, recording some of the highest audience shares on the station. Pearce also persuaded Radio 1 to launch the dance parties in the late 90s which saw him play to crowds of up to 25,000 people on beaches across the UK alongside DJs such as Carl Cox and Paul Van Dyk. Dance Anthems ran for ten years on Sundays and was moved to a new Friday night slot at 11pm a year ago. In its new slot the show has also added audience to the station. For the last few years Pearce has been synonymous with promoting trance music and discovering new DJs and artists, such as the now world famous Tiesto, who got their first Radio 1 mix slots on Dance Anthems. In the last year, Pearce also developed a new slot to promote unsigned talent for the UK's Bedroom Producers, giving them a rare opportunity to have their work heard by hundreds of thousands of people. Notes to Editors 1. Dave Pearce will not be giving any interviews at this time due to contractual obligations. 2. He will be available for comment from the announcement date of his new radio venture.
apparantly eddies binned as well :- Dave Pearce and Eddie Halliwell axed from Radio 1 In the latest shake-up at Radio 1, Dave Pearce and Eddie Halliwell have been given their marching orders. Dave Pearce said “It's been an incredible 13 years at Radio 1. It's time to move on but I have some exciting new radio projects to come." Eddie Halliwell said: "With these new changes, I have decided to take this opportunity to move on from my weekly commitment at Radio 1, allowing me time to work on other projects that have been put on hold due to my current schedule. Fire It Up!” In other news, Kissy Sell-Out has been given his own weekly Thursday night show (midnight -2am), on Fridays Judge Jules moves forward to 11pm-1am while Kutski follows from 1am-3am. Finally, Heidi and Moda residents, Jaymo and Andy George, join the 'In New DJs We Trust' roster. The moves will take place in October.
Thats a shame about pearce tbh. I never listen to him anymore like, but he does that bedroom producer thing. I reckon his "New Venture" will have something to do with that.
took from radio 1 The In New Music We Trust line-up gets three new presenters, techno DJ Heidi Van den Amstel and Jaymo & Andy George who will play "electro mash up".
He used to rock trees, my first propper clubbing days, was 16 god knows how i got in (fake id's). Ive heard that he sleeps with that hat on also
Bought time eddie halliwell got axed like! They should put someone who's more up-to-date, like Jimmy Saville or Tony Blackburn.
Jules is doin 11pm-til1am on Friday Kutski is gettin his own show on Fridaynite possibly 1am-3am Kissysellout is takin over Eddies slot.
