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newsToady 4th March - Update! Update! Update!.jpg) We have finished the album!!! Dave Stewart, he of Eurythmics fame, once said to me "You never know when to finish an album, only when to abandon it". We could tweak it forever perfecting every little imperfection but this means not getting on with our lives. We've some remixes outstanding to complete while meantime the album's here in demo form for your pleasure. Listen under Audio, In Memory Of... P & A Monday 8th March - Drop Beats Not Bombs .jpg) We've decided to release Drop Beats Not Bombs as a DJ Promo only for now. Coming this Monday 8th March, it features sublime deep tech mixes from Deepchild, head honcho of Trapez Reccords and Sweden's rising star & Kant Records artist; Eric Ericksson. Also included is our own tuff & triballistic "Brassneck" Dub Al & Pete 29th January 2010 - New Live Dates Added .jpg) See "Live" for more details Monday 11th January - First Mix of 2010! .jpg) Alans latest mix is finally here. Listen under "Mix" Monday 21st December - Happy Christmas .jpg) 4 track set of Remixes commissioned under our new moniker 'Braskneck'. Listen under Audio. Friday 11 December - The New Album .jpg) In Memory of Album sampler. This is where we're up to with all 10 titles. Listen under 'Audio' We hope to release with a label t.b.a. as early as possible next year. Wishing you a happy Christmas & New Year. Pete & Al Wednesday 2dn December - BBC Radio 2 .jpg) The interview we recorded on the 28th October was broadcast early this morning on thehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wr0n Janice Long[ENDLINK] show. It's up there for the next seven days. Our thanks to Janice & her team for inviting us in for what was a most enjoyable chat. A & P Wednesday 18 November - Promo postponed .jpg) We've decided not to release this promo for the time being as we are very close to completing the album. We don't feel we can give our full commitment to a single release while in full creative flow. Meanwhile the mixes are here for your pleasure. Pete & Al Monday 7th September - The Brand New Single! .jpg) Available now on iTunes click here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=328097251'All Things To All Men'[ENDLINK] 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/index.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 http://www.d-ream.co.uk/video.html http://www.d-ream.co.uk/store.html |