S2E6: Kevin Rowland

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week we welcome the beautiful Kevin Rowland to Rockonteurs. In an open, honest and funny conversation about life fronting Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin chats to Gary and Guy about the ups and downs of life in the band, making the album ‘Too Rye Ay’ the way he wanted to make it and the upcoming live dates in the UK this September. Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.

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0:32.0	Hello Guy.
0:33.0	Hello Gary, how are you?
0:34.0	Yeah, good thank you.
0:36.0	Kevin Rowland,
0:38.0	Dex's midnight runners.
0:39.0	Wow.
0:40.0	He was such a presence in the 80s.
0:42.0	I remember being everyone being maybe a little nervous to you
0:47.1	don't want to kind of get Kevin on the wrong foot you know.
0:49.9	Yeah incredibly yeah incredibly intenseredibly intense and he was that, because he carried over it was that whole
0:57.2	punk ethos of just absolutely meaning it and being genuine wasn't it?
1:01.2	Which he took to kind of extremes and the band lived almost like a cult,
1:05.6	didn't they? Well, yeah, I think you've got them to exercise and do running together and stuff, but also,
1:10.4	I remember when they didn't speak to the press and they and they put ads in the
1:14.9	press with statements about what what they were doing. There was one statement
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