Dexys Midnight Runners have announced details of a UK and Irish tour starting in October of this year, which includes a date at Brighton Dome Concert Hall.
The dates will be the first time Dexys, fronted by Kevin Rowland, have toured under the name of Dexys Midnight Runners since 2003, when they played a sold-out show at London’s Southbank Centre.
The full list of dates is as follows:
20.10.26 – Royal Concert Hall – GLASGOW
21.10.26 – City Hall – NEWCASTLE
23.10.26 – The Halls, University of Wolverhampton – WOLVERHAMPTON
25.10.26 – Opera House – MANCHESTER
28.10.26 – Hackney Empire – LONDON
30.10.26 – Corn Exchange – CAMBRIDGE
01.11.26- Dome – BRIGHTON
04.11.26 – Olympia – DUBLIN
05.11.26 – Ulster Hall – BELFAST
08.11.26 – Beacon – BRISTOL
Tickets for the tour go on-sale 10am, Friday 27th March and are available HERE.
Founded in Birmingham in 1978, Dexys Midnight Runners released three critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums – ‘Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’ (1980), ‘Too-Rye-Ay’ (1982) and ‘Don’t Stand Me Down’ (1985).
The band had a string of top ten hits in the 1980s, including two number ones, ‘Geno’ (1980) and ‘Come On Eileen’ (1982).
Kevin Rowland, who fronted the band, would go on to release both solo and further band albums, under the ‘Dexys’ name, including their 2012 ‘comeback’ album, ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’, which came out to widespread acclaim and 2023’s ‘The Feminine Divine’, which made number 6 in the UK albums chart.
Rowland, one of the most individual and unique musical talents of the past 40 years, recently released his memoir, ‘Bless Me Father’.
Dexy’s Midnight Runners are working with Heavenly Recordings.
“His faith in the transcendent power of music is still devout today … tonight Kevin Rowland still soars” – MOJO
“Utterly vital … and that voice is still the sound of soul reaching out from the depths of isolation in a desperate attempt to connect” – The Guardian
