Tag: 2011

Questions for Douglas Pearce from OpenSpace.ru: 1. What was the thought process behind your decision: to start DIJ’s jubilee tour here, in Russia, after six years of silence? What are your feelings about our country? Offers to tour the World have constantly come in since my retirement from live performances in 2005 but 2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of the foundation of Death In June and it’s first release ‘Heaven Street’ and it’s first live performance. ‘6’ being the number of the month of June I thought these signs were…

1) For DIJ the masks, or better “The Mask” (you encountered in Italy), have always represented an icon, like uniforms. Can you explain us the symbolism of these masks? There is no “symbolism”. There just ‘IS’. It ‘is’ good looking. It ‘is’ different. It ‘is’ now an icon. It ‘is’ instantly recognizable as Death In June. It ‘is’ established and sort after – even to the point of it once being stolen after the Death In June performance in Israel (and since in Italy)! It ‘is’ Magickal and it ‘is’…

A few years ago you announced that there will be no more Death in June live shows. But fortunately, in 2011 we’re going to have you perform in Moscow. What made you get back on the road? Realistically it’s a culmination of events. 2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of the foundation of Death In June, the release of the group’s first 12” e.p. ‘Heaven Street’ and the first performance in 1981 so coupled with the offers I was getting to perform live again I thought this was as good a…