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Sod London 2012, I'm looking forward to Dexys 2012.
Posted by TedLoaf on 27 July 2011 - 9:35am.
Whilst tenting in Norfolk last week, this sneaked out via Twitter and I've only just caught up with it.
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Sounds good
Time for a Dexys love in I think: Here's a TOTP appearance from 1980
Give me a record that cries pure and true
I love this one
Love Dexys
This Is What She's Like is probably my favourite track by Dexys.
I wrote about it a couple of years ago and as you might guess I'm fairly proud of this piece..
http://thesongsthatpeoplesing.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/whats-she-like/
Here's hoping we actually get something that we can buy this time, it looked hopeful the last time and nothing happened!
Have a lickel faith.
Check.
Come On Eileen
I used to live across the road from the corner shop where the Come On Eileen video above was filmed. It's still there: Brook Drive, SE1, if anyone wants to put their dungarees on and go to pay homage.
Hooray!
Welcome back Kev!
Meanwhile, I note that Nick Gatfield, the new head of Sony Music UK, played saxophone with Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982 to 1985. Which means he must have been one of the chorus of nodding dogs on Don't Stand Me Down. If only he could speak, what stories he might tell.
Furthermore
I am currently reading Phill Brown's wonderful if speccy book 'Are We Still Rolling?', his in-depth account of engineering some of the albums we know and love. Nick Gatfield gets a mention. He was Talk Talk's A&R at EMI when they delivered Spirit Of Eden. Brown alleges that when he first heard this genre-defying masterpiece, Gatfield burst into tears, not because he was deeply moved by what the band had recorded but because the LP was so suicidally uncommercial.
He got out of Dexys by the skin of his teeth. But for Nick Gatfield, it was Don't Stand Me Down all over again - another ludicrously expensive flop from a bunch of early 80s pop stars.
I wonder who is delivering big albums to Sony UK this quarter?
Thanks for posting the info
not least because it led me to this clip:
(Come On Eileen v Bring The Noise)
Dexy's
I had a smashing phone call last month from my friend's 11 year old. She had heard a song she loved on radio and didn't know what it was. She'd been bugging her mother, who said "Call Jo" and she proceeded to sing:
"Der der, der der, der der, der der, der DER" (approximately, etc). It was Geno! She has put 'Searching For the Young Soul Rebels' on her birthday list.
Good girl.
What an elightened 11 year old
My daughter is still all Beyonce, PCD and Cheryl Cole. I really hope this comes to something as he is a special talent.
Come on Kevin
Well I gather that Pete Williams, whom I saw recently (and reviewed on site), is back working with Kev and he is in FINE shape both as to musicianship and ideas so the auguries are good, just hope it doesn't distract from his own songs of which I am also waiting to see a release.
The full 12.19 version of This Is What She's Like
http://www.muzu.tv/gb/dexysmidnightrunnersklc6zycx5h/this-is-what-shes-l...
Then I found this