Dexy's Midnight Runners weren't that great that long ago. They were semi adorable with 'Come On Eileen', but made no real impact on the world of music in the US. They were there, everyone joked turning the lyric to 'cum on Eileen' and the video alienated them all the more.
They were simply too Euro for us. The weak remake of "Jackie Wilson Said", never really solidified them as stars.
Lead singer Kevin Rowland went solo and never through in the towel. Cashing in as a one hit wonder and securing his European following- who to this day still follow.
But is the world ready for more Dexy? I can say with much confidence the US is not. The populace does not have the ear for this sound and unfortunately there are far too many other options, the second coming of DMR will not even score them a hit song.
But those crazy cats went and recorded anyway. Perhaps England will embrace them and they can get allot of Festival gigs- no need for passports.
Below is a video 'teaser' of 2 minutes worth of 2 minutes too long. I'm sorry to those who bank rolled this one.
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pathetic music journalism, stay writing about your boyfriend Justin Bieber
Here, here Vincent…what a load of Yankee bollocks.
what a pathetic piece of music journalism.
lest we forget Dexys are a british group ……..
a few of us british music fans, concider sucsess over in america as a sell out .
after all this is a USA review of a classic british band.
Dexys in the UK, were they are based have achieved 3 seminal lp’s.
the USA is not a target market ……. (no, not the gitars theyre too noisy and crude)
as a dexys reviewer do you even understand that last coment.?
untill you know the artist dont think you can critique them.
scumbag journalist !!
vincent cain ……….
appologies for a few typo’s above
my excuse is a dodgy keyboard on an old laptop ….
i guess that cant be an excuse for original picee of pathetic journalism in this piece