We first saw Kevin in ‘77 wearing jodhpurs onstage with his art-punk band the Killjoys! He’s formed a new version of Dexys, made an album, starts a tour in October, and looks back here at central moments in his life, some recent ones so huge and affecting “that I put them to music” and they’ll be performed as a drama in the first half of these upcoming theatre shows. This touches - in vivid detail - on bands that inspired him, repaired relationships, a health crisis, what it took to be a singer in the first place and what’s requires now to put the show back on the road, along with …
… memories of music before the Beatles
… playing Jim Reeves and Ricky Nelson in a social club band in 1975 “after the bingo”
… the touching shift of power in his relationship with his 102 year-old father: “he was like a child again, he needed me”
… Roxy Music on Top Of The Pops, “I couldn’t believe you could be avant garde AND commercial”
… life on the Top Rank circuit supporting the Specials: “you learnt not to play at an audience but play for them”
… making Searching For The Young Soul Rebels in ten days with producer Pete Wingfield dancing in the studio
… “Come On Eileen doesn’t belong to me anymore”
… the alarming spectacle of an ‘80s Hear & Now package tour and what it taught him
.. the song he wrote for his grandchildren (one of whom is 31)
… a possibly terminal diagnosis in 2024 and “like Wilko Johnson, the relief I felt”
… and the Tim Buckley song he just recorded without knowing who wrote it!
Order the new Dexys album ‘Love’ here: https://dexysofficial.lnk.to/love
And tour tickets here: https://dexys.tmstor.es/Live
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