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The SBL Podcast

074 - In Conversation with Richard Yale - Dead Can Dance

The SBL Podcast

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4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we’re catching up with Richard Yale, bassist for Dead Can Dance, and Tour Manager/Backline Tech for the likes of Muse, Metallica and the Brand New Heavies. Formed in Melbourne by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance de-camped to London in 1982 and began creating some of the most far reaching goth music you are ever likely to hear. At this point, Perry and Gerrard became the core nucleus of the band supported by an ever-expanding cast of guest musicians. In 2011 ba...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott Devine here, back with another episode of the SPL podcast for you.

0:06.1

And this week in the hot seat, we've got the awesome Rich Yale.

0:10.4

Now, Rich got called for the Dead Can Dance comeback tour back in 2011.

0:15.0

If you don't know who Dead Can Dance are, by the way, they are a massive atmospheric goth band from back

0:20.8

in the 80s and 90s. So he's

0:22.7

going to talk in the podcast about getting

0:24.6

that gig, but for one reason or another,

0:26.7

quite a few shows on that tour were cancelled,

0:29.2

which is why he started

0:30.7

getting into backline tech production

0:33.0

and tour manager work as well.

0:35.3

And that's led him to be working

0:36.8

backstage with bands such as

0:38.7

Muse, Metallica, the brand new heavies, you know, like really, really cool bands, which has

0:45.4

given him a really unique insight into the workings of big arena tours and obviously an extra

0:51.7

string to his bow when he's not busy gigging himself.

0:55.0

So on that note, I'm going to hand over to Nick and the awesome Rich Yale.

1:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the SBL podcast.

1:02.5

We're joined today by Richard Yale all the way from North Wales.

1:05.3

Hey, Rich, how's it going?

1:06.6

Hey, man. How you doing?

1:07.6

Good.

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