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[freakytigger]

Dance people: is Dave Pearce a good bloke, a knob, both, neither? I realise how little I know about the bumbling uncle of dance culture.

Comments

[chezghost]

i have always thought of him as a nob, but it's both really. you could argue pete tong is a nob too but i've always found him far easier to respect.

[katstevens]

I've only listened to his show once or twice, not really enough to form an opinion on his knobbishness. However he strikes me as a populist - play recognisable tunes to get dudes in the mood for dancing, a method of which I approve wholeheartedly of course.

[alexmacpherson]

Weirdly I don't have any conception of him at all, I don't think I've ever even listened to his show. He doesn't seem all that relevant to anything I'm interested in...when it comes to dance, that populist all-things-to-all-people thing doesn't tend to be conducive to quality.

[byebyepride]

I quite like dave Pearce. His show pretty much does what it says - and now he has been sidelined by radio 1 in the schedules he is embracing the traditional British political power structure viz. posh boy figurehead for working class taste which middle class taste won't recognise. Well, sort of - except the class thing doesn't work, it's more a metropolitan / peripheral taste thing with all that bosh.