years. Noel Gallagher was the first celebrity guest to pick his favourite dance anthem, which was Strings of Life by Rhythm is Rhythm. He created a weekly bedroom producer slot showcasing new talent. Pearce also presented occasional shows on BBC Radio 2 including New Year's Eve parties and he wrote and presented a series on disco. Pearce presented Dave Pearce's Top 100 Dance Anthems on MTV. During this period he toured extensively and achieved gold album sales with Dave Pearce Trance Anthems 2008 and 2009 on Ministry of Sound and released a 10 CD retrospective of dance – Dance Years. BBC Radio 2 Pearce's 6 Music show ended on Sunday 3 April 2011 before he moved to a new 10 part weekly Thursday nostalgic dance show (airing 11pm till midnight starting 14 April 2011) on BBC Radio 2. He also sat in on Janice Long's show. From April 2012, Pearce presented a weekly Saturday night show: Dave Pearce Dance Years (airing from 10pm – midnight) till 26 September 2013. Guests on the show included Calvin Harris, Pet Shop Boys, Disclosure, Duke Dumont, Todd Terry, Marshall Jefferson, Boy George and David Guetta. Dave returned to Radio 2 in a new 11 part weekly slot, airing on Wednesday nights starting on 8 October 2014. Pearce has continued to tour extensively including performing at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai and various festivals including BugJam and Birmingham Pride. In Summer 2013, Pearce took residency at BCM in Mallorca and released a new album, BCM Mallorca 2013. Dave Pearce Anthems A new show started on 1 March 2014 called "Dave Pearce Anthems", a three-hour weekly syndicated show for UK radio stations, broadcast on Saturday nights. It was aired on UTV Radio, Fire Radio, Hampshire Hit Radio and Energy FM. It was discontinued in 2016 before being re-launched in 2018 by Blue Revolution. The new Dance Anthems show airs on Energy FM and Hampshire Hit Radio. References External links Dave Pearce Trancecast RSS feed Dave Pearce Presents The Trancecast RSS feed BBC Radio 1 presenters BBC Radio 2 presenters BBC Radio 6 Music presenters English radio DJs English record producers Living people People from Surrey 1963 births Electronic dance music DJs