Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Warming Up For DEXYS’ Concert Tonight In Antwerp, Belgium

Posted on by JL

1 October 2023

Legendary soul rebels DEXYS (the band formerly know as Dexys Midnight Runners)
fronted by mastermind KEVIN ROWLAND play in Antwerp, Belgium tonight. I’m really looking forward to the concert.

They’ll play their new excellent LP THE FEMININE DIVINE
in full, followed by a bunch of classics.

To get in the mood, I’m listening right now to that new flawless album,
and afterward to their magnum debut opus Searching For The Young
Soul Rebels.

THE FEMININE DIVINE

SEARCHING FOR THE YOUNG SOUL REBELS


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DEXYS: Instagram – Bio – Discography

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – Debut LP ‘Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’ Released 40 Years Ago

Posted on by JL

12 July 2020

Band: Dexys Midnight Runners (Birmingham, UK)
Active: 1978–1986, 2003–present
Album: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels – debut LP
Released: 11 July1980  – 40 years ago
Score: #6 in the UK

BBC Music said: “Although coming four years after the first summer of punk, Searching For
The Young Soul Rebels by Birmingham eight-piece Dexys Midnight Runners is probably the truest capturing of the movement’s spirit ever released in Britain… Remember, this was a time when soul was seen as something of a delicacy, liked by the northern crowd or females while the boys had their prog or Pistols. When Dexys played songs such as Otis Redding’s Respect in their set, young British audiences had largely never heard of them and thought they were the group’s originals… Although Rowland may have had bigger hits (Too Rye Ay) and made a greater work (1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down), SFTYSR – fierce, raging and passionate – remains one of the greatest debut albums of all time.”

Here’s steamy top single Geno (no 1 hit n the UK)…

Full album…

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DEXYS: Facebook