Dexys in Dublin review: Theatrical and moving as frontman Kevin Rowland has a reckoning with himself
What made this show even more pleasing was Rowland’s reappraisal of some of the band’s previous work
What made this show even more pleasing was Rowland’s reappraisal of some of the band’s previous work
Dizzying feast of an album as Kevin Rowland re-evaluates his attitudes to women and ideas of masculinity
The frontman has come to terms with his Dexys Midnight Runners past, but hasn’t given up on an imaginative, exploratory, creative future
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Kevin Rowland opens up about his Irish roots, 1916, the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 and an encounter with Muhammad Ali
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