The Last Dance
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The Last Dance is a darkwave rock band from Southern California signed to Dancing Ferret Discs.
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[edit] Biography
Jeff Diehm (vocals), Rick Joyce (guitar), Tony Tullai (bass) and Ian Hauus (drums) formed The Last Dance in the early 1990s in Orange County, California. As a small local band for several years, The Last Dance released two cassette albums, Everyone and Angel; in 1995, they released an EP, Tragedy. By the mid-1990s, they had crafted several club favorites, including "Fairytales" and "Do You Believe in Angels?" "Fairytales" was the title track on their first full-length album, which released in 1996. This was followed by their first US tour in the summer of 1997.
Their next full-length, Perfect, was released 2001. By this point, Hauus had been replaced by Ivan "Lucky" Dominguez on drums. The band toured the US again and Europe for the first time with Switchblade Symphony.
In 2001, tragedy struck The Last Dance. Dominguez died of pneumonia on December 18th, while the band was touring in Denmark. The last show that he played with the band was on November 29th in Munich, Germany; the last song that he played with the band was a cover of "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo (coincidentally, it was also the last song the band recorded for Whispers in Rage). The band played a memorial show for Dominguez 15 days later and replaced him with Tom Coyne. However, even as of 2005 The Last Dance lists Coyne as a "performing drummer"; Ivan Dominguez is still listed prominently among their members as the band's "Friend and Brother". The last track of The Last Dance's 2003 album, Whispers in Rage, contains Dominguez's drumming, and Dominguez's death played somewhat into the writing of the album's other songs.
Over their career, The Last Dance has toured the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Starting with their 1999 album, One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine, they have released several albums that they only sold while on tour; these albums most frequently contain remixes of songs that appeared on their most recent full-length. Their most recent remix album, Reflections of Rage (2003), contained remixes of several songs from Whispers in Rage as well as songs dating from earlier in their career. Cyrusrex of Skinny Puppy, Thomas Rainer of L'âme Immortelle, and Rachel McDonnell of The Crüxshadows were among those who appeared on Reflections of Rage. Perhaps the most unique aspect of Reflections of Rage was that The Last Dance did a darkwave-tinged cover of Britney Spears' song "Oops, I Did It Again".
The Last Dance released their next album, Once Beautiful, September 20, 2005, on Dancing Ferret Discs.
A music video for the song "Once Beautiful" was shot by Sandy Collora (Batman: Dead End) which can be seen at http://www.myspace.com/thelastdance.
In September of 2005, the band toured the U.S. for six weeks with a film crew in tow. A film of the tour is currentlly in production by Lifeline Entertainment directed by Rocky Costanzo. It is due out in the spring of 2007. To view the movie trailer, visit tldmovie.com
In 2007, the band has not toured in favour of playing sporadic festivals around the US and Europe, including the Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival in Germany and Dragon Con in Atlanta (9/28/06)
The Last Dance is sponsored by the Bleeding Edge gothic line of merchandise.
[edit] Members
[edit] Current members
- Jeff Diehm - lead vocals
- Rick Joyce - guitar
- Peter J. Gorritz - bass
- Tom Coyne - drums (performing member)
- Stevyn Grey - drums (performing member)
[edit] Former members
- Ivan Dominguez - drums
- Ian Haas - drums (1990-96)
- Tony Tullai - bass (1990-96)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Tragedy EP (1995, Apollyon Records)
- Fairytales (1996)
- Perfect (2002, 7 Sin Records and Apollyon Records)
- Now and Forever (2002, Mystine Records and Apollyon Records)
- Whispers in Rage (2003, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Reflections of Rage (2004, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Once Beautiful (2005, Dancing Ferret Discs)
[edit] Remixes and special releases
- Everyone & Angel
- Staring at the Sky (1998)
- One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine (1999)
- Duo-Milia (2000)
- Now and Forever After (2006)
