Dexys Midnight Runners have signed to UK indie label Heavenly and announced their first album for the label. LOVE is produced by David Holmes and is the first release under the full Dexys Midnight Runners name since 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down. The album is positioned as the final chapter in the band’s story and is scheduled for release on September 4. Kevin Rowland’s songwriting draws on second-generation Irish childhood experiences, family relationships, late-life romance, loss, and reconciliation. The lead single is “My Life In England Pt. 1,” with a video released for it. Rowland describes revisiting an earlier compilation version, connecting lyrics to personal memories and his book Bless Me Father, including scenes involving an illegal song in England.
"Dexys Midnight Runners have signed to esteemed UK indie label Heavenly and announced their first album for them. LOVE was produced by David Holmes (Primal Scream, Noel Gallagher), is their first under the full Dexys Midnight Runners name since 1985's Don't Stand Me Down, and will be the "final chapter" in their story. The album will be out September 4."
"On the album, frontman Kevin Rowland explores stories "from his 2nd generation Irish childhood and family relationships to late-life romance, loss and reconciliation." The first single from the album is "My Life In England Pt. 1" and you can watch the video below."
""We put out a version of this song on a compilation album in 2003, but I felt we could improve on it," says Rowland. "I wrote it a long time ago with Jim [Patterson], along with 'My Life in England Pt. 2'. It's all memories of my own experiences. Pete, that's my brother. In my book [ Bless Me Father], I changed his name to Pat. There's quite a lot of overlap with the book in this one.""
""We were in England dreaming of America: it was pre-Beatles, so it was Elvis, it was Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay, clothes, all of it was America. In the second verse, I'm remembering being in a social club listening to everyone singing Kevin Barry [a song about 18 year-old medical student and IRA soldier Kevin Barry, executed by the British government on 1st November, 1920] and my mum telling me 'This song's not allowed in England'. It was daytime, and all the curtains were drawn, everyone drinking, singing an illegal song. I remember thinking, Wow, yes, exciting!""
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