of Sound and hosted trance nights and released a new brand called Delirium. Career in radio BBC Radio 1 Pearce joined BBC Radio 1 in April 1995, and stayed there until 1 August 2008. taking over the weekday early breakfast show from Bruno Brookes. His first show was sitting in for Pete Tong on the Essential Selection. He also became the stand in for Chris Evans on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Later that year he took over the weekend mid-morning slot on Radio 1 and created The Recovery Session – a breakfast show for clubbers. In February 1997, he took over the weekend breakfast show then in October became the presenter of drivetime on Radio 1 taking over from Kevin Greening where he introduced a daily mix of dance music – the Mix at Six. That year Pearce devised and created Dance Anthems on Sundays at 7pm which achieved the station's third highest audience share. He presented the show for 10 years. He also created and presented the Radio 1 dance parties which were broadcast on beaches across the UK to crowds of up to 25,000 people with guest DJs including Paul van Dyk, Carl Cox, Sasha and Boy George. He undertook a national tour with Leeds club Up Yer Ronson and then launched his own national dance anthems tour. He achieved his first gold album in 1999 for his compilation Dave Pearce Dance Anthems, released on Universal. In 1998, Pearce started a new late drive show Monday to Thursdays 6-8pm. He became the first main Radio 1 DJ to hold a weekly residency in Ibiza at Eden nightclub which he held for 10 years working with various brands including Euphoria, Slinky and Gatecrasher. In the remaining years at Radio 1 he toured extensively in Europe with residencies in Ibiza, Mallorca, Tenerife, Corfu and Zante. Pearce hosted Radio 1's Into the Millennium show live from an outdoor stage in Glasgow and was the first voice on BBC Radio 1 in the new millennium. Pearce celebrated 10 years of Dance Anthems at Radio 1 in August 2007. The 5-hour special show included input from David Morales, Faithless, Pete Tong, Judge Jules and a phone-in from Tiesto. BBC Radio 6 Music Pearce returned to BBC radio on Sunday 5 October 2008 hosting a new show on BBC Radio 6 Music from 8pm to 10pm, playing dance music from the last 30