# Anybody else out there seen Dead Can Dance live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918 "2003-07-03T01:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/1 "2003-07-03T01:20:02Z")
I saw them about 10 years ago at the Moore in Seattle… What a hair-on-the-back-o’-the-neck raising experience! The tix was about $20. And you? ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/2 "2003-07-03T01:38:41Z")
Yes, I saw them on the Spiritchaser tour (1996?) and then I saw Brendan Perry solo in 1999. Both shows were fantastic… I wish they’d released a couple more live albums, based on bootlegs I’ve heard they have tons of material they only ever performed live and a lot of it is pretty amazing. -fh ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/3 "2003-07-03T02:14:13Z")
I guess it’s just you and me, then. Yeah, more live DCD CD’s! ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Shellhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e56c9b/32.png) [@Old\_Shellhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Shellhead)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/4 "2003-07-03T04:10:26Z")
Yeah, it is just you two guys! _envy_ I live a few blocks away from the Mayfair Theatre, which is where Toward the Within was recorded/filmed. Unfortunately, the place was pretty much destroyed in the Northridge earthquake, and nothing has happened with it. But this was nine years ago! I’m really confused why this theatre hasn’t been renovated/removed. Every time I pass it, I think about what an amazing recording that was… sigh. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/5 "2003-07-03T04:29:10Z")
Saw them in Portland, oh, 1996? It was good. The acoustics were very good-- at a sit-down opera house style venue. HOWEVER I can’t stand to hear him sing, though. Ruins a song to hear him belt out these cheesy awkwardly phrased platitudes in English so earnestly. Makes me cringe, like watching an elementary school play. "Sonambulistic, maniacal. . in the dark. . " AGH! Her singing rawks though. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/6 "2003-07-03T07:24:22Z")
You’re disqualified from this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/7 "2003-07-03T07:55:19Z")
[Linda Richman] I’m feeling all _ferklempt_ … I’ll give you a topic … Dead Can Dance are not dead and they can’t dance … discuss amongst yourselves! [/Linda Richman] ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/8 "2003-07-03T13:33:17Z")
I’ve seen them 3 times in Toronto, first time (Aion?) 3rd row centre and was blown away! A friend was further back in the crowd and said the sound was the best he had heard at a concert. I saw the next tour (Toward the Within?) at the same theatre (Danforth Music Hall) and sat further back and was again amazed at the performance. I saw the Spiritchaser tour at a bigger hall (Massey) and was still in awe (although Brendan was a bit of a hothead…kinda like a music teacher fed up with the students). I was excited to see Lisa Gerrard when she released The Mirror Pool, but the tour came through town when we had gone on vacation…I was very sad. She was also scheduled to be on the Lillith Fair tour but had to back out due to financial reasons…I was very sad. I can only hope that she will tour to support her new disc in the fall. I was somewhat disappointed with Brendans solo release when I first heard it and decided to give his show a miss. I have since listened to the disc a few more times and it is growing on me. I should have gone…I am sad. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/9 "2003-07-03T18:58:20Z")
I wanted to see them when they played in Berkeley way back when (just after their release of _Into the Labyrinth_, I believe). Unfortunately, I did not know _when_ they would be playing…until the night of the concert, by which time it was too late. I, too, am sad. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/10 "2003-07-03T20:33:13Z")
In summer 1996, they came to Seattle, and I thought long and hard about whether to pay next month’s rent or go see them in concert. Rent, tragically, won, and so I missed out on the show. I’ve regretted not going homeless ever since. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/11 "2003-07-03T20:47:44Z")
I went to the same show as **Darwin’s Finch**. And I don’t recall seeing him there… \ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/12 "2003-07-03T20:49:08Z")
:smack: Never mind, now I see why I didn’t see him there. Reading comprehension is my friend. One more for good measure: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DeskMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DeskMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeskMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/13 "2003-07-03T20:50:25Z")
I saw them in the early 90’s (maybe 91-92? I’m terrible with years) at Berklee School of Music in Boston. It was beautiful. They used all sorts of weird, old instruments and she stood at a podium as she sang. It was very moving. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-seen-dead-can-dance-live/185918/14 "2003-07-03T21:14:45Z")
I have unfortunately missed all of their concerts, and now will never see one (unless they get back together) … On the upside, [Lisa Gerrard](http://www.lisagerrard.com) does have an album coming out in September. And _maybe_ a tour …