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The long-awaited (...and much-delayed)
follow-up to Dexys Midnight Runners' classic 1985 album "Don't Stand Me Down" was finally released
on 4th June, 2012.
"One Day I'm Going To Soar", a collection of songs composed over the
last twenty years, signals the return of Kevin Rowland and former band members Mick Talbot, Pete Williams, Jim Paterson,
Lucy Morgan and Neil Hubbard (alongside new recruit, Madeleine Hyland) under the now-shortened name of "Dexys".
The songs which chart Rowland's childhood memories through to his failed attempts at love and a displaced sense of national
identity are, as previously promised in interviews, "lyrically autobiographical" while, musically, the songs see
Rowland continue his love afair with classic Soul music and, more specifically, the Memphis sound of Al Green. "One Day
I'm Going To Soar" has already been hailed by many as one of the albums of the year and a fitting addition
to Dexys' legacy of work.
Full
track-listing:
1) NOW; 2) LOST; 3) ME; 4)
SHE GOT A WIGGLE; 5) YOU; 6) I'M THINKING OF YOU;
7) I'M ALWAYS
GOING TO LOVE YOU; 8) INCAPABLE OF LOVE;
9) NOWHERE IS HOME; 10) FREE;
11) IT'S O.K. JOHN JOE
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The long-lost post-Dexys songs of the mighty Kevin
Archer finally found their way to a public release on 18th May 2009! The CD which features the previously unreleased
ten-track album AND nine bonus tracks (including the unreleased 1985 song "Where Do We Go From Here") is also accompanied
by a sumptuous 16-page booklet full of info and images (Including a newly-redesigned front cover!)
Featuring at various points on the CD are no less than NINE ex-Midnight Runners, in the shape of: Kevin Archer,
Helen O'Hara, Steve "Brennan" Shaw, Steve Wynne, Big Jimmy Paterson, Geoff Blythe, Andy Leek, Vince Crane and
Mick "Woody" Woodmansey! (...AND former Dexys producer, Pete Wingfield) so anybody who has been feeling starved
of great music lately need look no further! The full track-listing is: 1. It
Could Have Been Love *; 2. Walking On The Line; 3. Apples & Oranges (The International Hope Campaign); 4. Bedlam *; 5. East To West *; 6. She's So Strong *;
7. Gregory Right *; 8. There's No Deceiving
You; 9. Thought
As Much *; 10. Ballad
Of The Blue Ox Babes *; (Bonus tracks:) 11. The Last Detail; 12. Take Me To
The River; 13. Pray Lucky;
14. Yes Let's; 15. Four Golden Tongues Talk; 16. What Does Anybody Ever Think
About; 17. Where
Do We Go From Here *; 18. Thought As Much (Demo); 19. Russia In Winter * = previously unreleased There are also some additional tracks available
for download from Cherry Red Records! |
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After a twenty-seven year gap, The Bureau's
much-delayed follow-up to their 1981 debut album has finally been released! The album entitled "...And Another
Thing" features former Dexys Midnight Runners, Pete Williams, Geoff 'J.B.' Blythe, Steve
Spooner, Mick Talbot, Paul Taylor and Crispin Taylor - alongside Archie Brown and
Rob Jones - with an excellent collection of soulful new material.
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| In January 2008 Kevin Rowland spoke to Nigel
Williamson of Uncut Magazine about work on the new Dexys album: I have it in my head - the lyrics, the music and the track-listing. I'm in the process of
demo-ing the songs with Andy Lewis who's on Acid Jazz and has worked with Paul Weller. We've just finished the first
two songs and there's a version of what will be the final track on the album, "It's OK Johanna" already
on MySpace. It's different from what I've done before. I've never been interested in recreating the past, but
it will be a Dexys album. I don't know when it will be ready or who will play on the record. I want to get everything
100 percent right, and know that it's the best I can do and every note is there for a reason. Then I'll see who's
right for the songs. If it's a hit album, that would be nice. But that's just a by-product of why I'm doing it.
The only way I can be satisfied is to make the record I'm hearing in my head on my own terms. |
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