The Dream Academy has been played on NTS in shows including My Ever Changing Moods w/ DJ Lance Rock, featured first on 17 March 2017. Songs played include The Edge of Forever, Sunrising and Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime.

The Dream Academy were a 1980s British folk rock band, comprising singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist (chiefly oboeist) Kate St John and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. They are most noted for their hit single, Life in a Northern Town.

All three members of the band remain active recording musicians, each with their own careers. They are said to have reunited on a forthcoming album, "Angels and Fools", by Gilbert's new…