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homeFriday 3rd July 2009 - D-Reamix.jpg) Rather than watch the tennis we though we'd get busy instead ergo Alan Prosser's 'Here We Go Again'. Listen under "Discs, Prosser' We're Lovin' it! - 'All Things To All Men' release date September 7th .jpg) We now have a release for 'All Things To All Men' scheduled for September 7th. We've decided to go it alone for now so we got ourselves a brand new shiny label 'User'. We're joined in this venture by Sean Holbrook of 'Run Boy Run' Management - welcome sir. Further to his advice we have James Guinness at Absolute for digital distribution, Hyperactive for club promotions and Fergus & her team over at Raw Material on Press. Excellent! 25th June 2009 - New live Dates! Ibiza is now confirmed for the 17th August - Weh Hey! & more dates are coming in. C U soon. Al & Pete 19th and 20th June - A Shot In The Arm A fantastic weekend for us - our heartfelt thanks to all who came down. The Edinburgh Corn Exchange was a short but sweet p.a. set. Even though the crowd hadn't heard the new songs before they really got into them. Then everything went up a gear and the crowd went mad for the big hits. We initially intended to play East Kilbride as a low key village festival and made no expectations. We couldn't have known that more than four thousand would attend and give it everything. The band was pumpin' and we hammered through 45 minutes of the latest set. The line up was Derek Chai, Bass; Darren Ashford, Drums; Susan Blair, Vocals; me on Vocals & Guitar; and Alan sequencing & synths. Great crowd. Great nite. This weekend was a real shot in the arm for us. 17th June - Marshall Arts We're delighted to announce the exclusive appointment of Kevin Moss at Marshall Arts as our sole international live agent. A major focus over the coming months will be in making the crossover from nightclubs to the live festival circuit both here and in Europe. Welcome on board sir! Thursday 21th May - All Things To All Men - Promo Sampler .jpg) Today under the 'Discs' section is the latest promo of ‘All Things To All Men'. Sporting mixes by Jay Kay, TJInc & Paul Gotel. The package has, of course, an original D:Reamix and D:Ream Dub, very different to anything we've done before. We do hope you enjoy it. There is a real chance of an Ibiza date now in August – will keep you posted. Thursday 21st May - Mixtape update! .jpg) The latest mixtape is now up featuring a nice selection of house cuts. Love & Peas ;-) Alan Friday 24th April - Done! .jpg) Last weekend we mixed all four new titles. You can listen to the 4 new album samplers in the discs section In Memory Of... We hope you feel them like we do. Al & Pete Sunday 1st March 2009 - Dom Phillips' book, Superstar DJs Here We Go!, is published .jpg) Dom Phillips longtime editor at Mixmag, interviewed Peter in 2007 for his new book Superstar DJs which charts the rise, and fall, of 90's clubland. "D:Ream, formed with London DJ Al Mackenzie, would blur the line between full-blown, euphoric ecstasy anthems and the pop charts. Indeed the group's dynamic depended on this tension between two radically different worlds: the smoky world of clubs on one hand, the squeaky clean world of pop on the other. The pair started working together, Mackenzie bringing his DJ sensibilities to Cunnah's raw pop songs. 'He could see there was something there,' said Cunnah. Mackenzie would arrive with a pile of records and demonstrate where Pete was going wrong. '"Listen to this, what is it they're doing, we should do that." He'd sit in a corner, roll up a couple of big spliffs, polish off a packet of Jammy Dodgers and pontificate while I worked the machinery. It was great.' 'Things Can Only Get Better' became one of the most unavoidable hits of the 1990s. It bubbled with optimism and celebration. Like a lot of pop hits, it also had a vague ill-defined sense of something profound about it. Week after week, Cunnah would sing this song as if his life depended on it. Out there in superclubland, dressed up to the nines, pilled up to the eyeballs, his audience flung out their hands too, swept up in Saturday night, enraptured in the moment. If the dizzy heights of the 1990s were about anything, they were about the here and now and aren't we great of hedonism. Cunnah had created the song that captured that." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superstar-DJs-Here-We-Go/dp/0091926939Superstar DJS by Dom Phillips[ENDLINK] Ebury £12.99 November 2008. - 'City of Song: Music in Derry from Overtures to Undertones' .jpg) This is an extract from 'City of Song: Music in Derry from Overtures to Undertones', written by Garbhan Downey, published by Guildhall Press, November 2008. 'The Man Who Made Tony King' There are many Derry musicians who can lay claim to greatness – some even justifiably. But there is only one who can legitimately state to have played a key role in the Irish peace process. Without Peter Cunnah, that essential pop anthem to hope “Things Can Only Get Better” would never have come into being. And as history has shown, without “Things Can Only Get Better”, Tony Blair would never have been elected Prime Minister in 1997. (Doubters among you should ask yourselves, if you can honestly remember one other single feature of that entire campaign.) And without Blair, the peace process was stalling and there mightn’t have been a Good Friday Agreement. Ergo, Pete Cunnah, take a bow. This, after all, is the man who wrote one of the most infectiously good-humoured songs of the 1990s – if not of all time. This is the man who took dance music out of the basement and installed it in living rooms across the world. This is the man who made Tony Blair king. The only question now remaining is, did Blair deserve him? http://www.ghpress.com/'City of Song: Music in Derry from Overtures to Undertones' by Garbhan Downey[ENDLINK] Guildhall Press Other Pages http://www.d-ream.co.uk/news.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/about.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/discs.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/live.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/discs_detail.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/mixtape.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/links.html |