Dexys - Nowhere Is Home

Dexys - Nowhere Is Home (Live at Duke of York's Theatre) - 2014

Not only did 2012’s outsider opera of an album, One Day I’m Going To Soar, completely revive the reputation of Kevin Rowland and Dexys, it also provided the focus for one of the more ambitious series of concerts of recent times. The release of Nowhere Is Home sees that theatrical presentation given the cinematic treatment it deserves, while acting as a victory lap for this most stylish of comebacks.

Dexys are not a revival band. They are going forward not backward. They changed their name from Dexys Midnight Runners to Dexys in 2012 to say “we’re the same people, but we’re different now!” Dexys is not just Kevin Rowland. It is an eight-person ensemble with a nucleus consisting of Kevin Rowland, Lucy Morgan and Sean Read.

CD 1
01. Now (Live 24th April 2013)
02. Lost (Live 24th April 2013)
03. Me (Live 24th April 2013)
04. She Got A Wiggle (Live 24th April 2013)
05. You (Live 24th April 2013)
06. I'm Thinking Of You (Live 24th April 2013)
07. I'm Always Going To Love You (Live 24th April 2013)
08. Incapable of Love (Live 27th April 2013)
09. Nowhere Is Home (Live 24th April 2013)
10. Free (Live 27th April 2013)
11. It's Ok John Joe (Live 27th April 2013)

CD 2
01. The Waltz (Live 27th April 2013)
02. Geno (Live 24th April 2013)
03. Listen To This (Live 27th April 2013)
04. Until I Believe In My Soul (Live 27th and 24th Edit April 2013)
05. Tell Me When My Light Turns Green (Live 27th and 24th Edit April 2013)
06. Until I Believe In My Soul Part 2 (Live 27th and 24th Edit April 2013)
07. Liars A to E (Live 27th April 2013)
08. Old (Live 24th April 2013)
09. This Is What She's Like (Live 27th and 24th Edit April 2013)

CD 3
01. Nowhere Is Home (Live 19th April 2013)
02. The Waltz (Live 20th April 2013)
03. She Got A Wiggle (Radio Edit)
04. Incapable Of Love (Radio Edit)


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Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar

 Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar - 2012

One Day I'm Going to Soar is a concept album with an unreliable narrator, a comeback LP about being stuck in a self-defeating cycle, and a soul record dedicated partly to exposing its singer as an untrustworthy shit. For devotees of bandleader Kevin Rowland-- and there are many, despite the last Dexys album having come out 27 years ago-- this is exactly what they've been hoping to hear. For anyone else, an hour in Rowland's company will be more of an effort, though probably one worth making. The new record picks up where 1985's Don't Stand Me Down left off. That album was a commercial disaster that became a cult favorite for its emotional complexity and its formal daring, as tracks cut mid-song into long conversations between Rowland and bandmates. Some of these were awkwardly revealing chit-chat, some statements of belief. Dexys Midnight Runners, as they were known in the 80s, always had a reputation for passion and honesty, but there was an uncomfortable intimacy about the Don't Stand Me Down work which made it their most difficult but gripping record. 

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01. Now
02. Lost
03. Me
04. She Got a Wiggle
05. You
06. I'm Thinking of You
07. I'm Always Going to Love You
08. Incapable of Love
09. Nowhere Is Home
10. Free
11. It's O.K. John Joe

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Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar

 Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar - 2012

One Day I'm Going to Soar is a concept album with an unreliable narrator, a comeback LP about being stuck in a self-defeating cycle, and a soul record dedicated partly to exposing its singer as an untrustworthy shit. For devotees of bandleader Kevin Rowland-- and there are many, despite the last Dexys album having come out 27 years ago-- this is exactly what they've been hoping to hear. For anyone else, an hour in Rowland's company will be more of an effort, though probably one worth making. The new record picks up where 1985's Don't Stand Me Down left off. That album was a commercial disaster that became a cult favorite for its emotional complexity and its formal daring, as tracks cut mid-song into long conversations between Rowland and bandmates. Some of these were awkwardly revealing chit-chat, some statements of belief. Dexys Midnight Runners, as they were known in the 80s, always had a reputation for passion and honesty, but there was an uncomfortable intimacy about the Don't Stand Me Down work which made it their most difficult but gripping record. 

READ MORE HERE

 
01. Now
02. Lost
03. Me
04. She Got a Wiggle
05. You
06. I'm Thinking of You
07. I'm Always Going to Love You
08. Incapable of Love
09. Nowhere Is Home
10. Free
11. It's O.K. John Joe

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