[citation needed] In the early 1980s in Copenhagen, D-A-D started playing together under their original name Disneyland After Dark.

Pedersen came up with the name based on the idea that when the lights are out in Disneyland, anything can happen.

The band's debut concert was at the youth club Sundby Algaard.

The largest concert the band played as the opening act for the Böhse Onkelz on their farewell festival on 17 June 2005, about 120,000 people on the Euro Speedway Lausitz.

[3] He also plays drums for the band The Whiteouts and has also written a song for the Danish movie Bleeder.