# Kevin Rowland, the new Dexys and what he's learnt from life Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/kevin-rowland-the-new-dexys-and-what-he-s-learnt-from-life Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/kevin-rowland-the-new-dexys-and-what-he-s-learnt-from-life.md Podcast: [Word In Your Ear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565) Published: 2026-07-08T07:59:51+00:00 Episode link: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a4e037a195f86360508cdcb/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/kevin-rowland-the-new-dexys-and-what-he-s-learnt-from-life Duration seconds: 2442 ## Resource We first saw Kevin in ‘77 wearing jodhpurs onstage with his art-punk band the Killjoys! He’s formed a new version of Dexys, made an album, starts a tour in October, and looks back here at central moments in his life, some recent ones so huge and affecting “that I put them to music” and they’ll be performed as a drama in the first half of these upcoming theatre shows. This touches - in vivid detail - on bands that inspired him, repaired relationships, a health crisis, what it took to be a singer in the first place and what’s requires now to put the show back on the road, along with …   … memories of music before the Beatles   … playing Jim Reeves and Ricky Nelson in a social club band in 1975 “after the bingo”   … the touching shift of power in his relationship with his 102 year-old father: “he was like a child again, he needed me”   … Roxy Music on Top Of The Pops, “I couldn’t believe you could be avant garde AND commercial”   … life on the Top Rank circuit supporting the Specials: “you learnt not to play at an audience but play for them”    … making Searching For The Young Soul Rebels in ten days with producer Pete Wingfield dancing in the studio   … “Come On Eileen doesn’t belong to me anymore”   … the alarming spectacle of an ‘80s Hear & Now package tour and what it taught him   .. the song he wrote for his grandchildren (one of whom is 31)   … a possibly terminal diagnosis in 2024 and “like Wilko Johnson, the relief I felt”   … and the Tim Buckley song he just recorded without knowing who wrote it!   Order the new Dexys album ‘Love’ here: https://dexysofficial.lnk.to/love   And tour tickets here: https://dexys.tmstor.es/Live Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll g… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/kevin-rowland-the-new-dexys-and-what-he-s-learnt-from-life/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/kevin-rowland-the-new-dexys-and-what-he-s-learnt-from-life.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.