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Kevin Rowland

June 2024

  • Siobhan Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena of Sugababes.

    ‘My knees are as strong as Megan Thee Stallion!’ What 20 celebrities learned at Glastonbury 2024

    Cut your toenails, play bingo – and drink rum instead of lager. Performers including Marina Abramović, Sugababes, Don Letts and Paloma Faith share their tips

September 2023

  • Kevin Rowland

    Lunch with...
    Kevin Rowland: ‘I couldn’t ever see myself doing the music again. I was violently against it’

    The Dexys lead singer explains how tai chi and a vegan diet helped him find his creative energy – and why he was too shy to say hello to Bryan Ferry

July 2023

  • Sean Read, Kevin Rowland, Mike Timothy and Big Jim Patterson.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Dexys: The Feminine Divine review – Kevin Rowland worships at the altar of women

    Back after seven years and an apparent retirement, here’s another left turn in a career full of them: a baffling, brave record with some exceptionally beautiful songs

June 2023

  • Kevin Rowland in 1983

    Flashback
    Kevin Rowland looks back: ‘Trying to calm myself down never even occurred to me’

    The former Dexys Midnight Runners singer on dealing with stage anxiety, his subversive style and seeing women as goddesses

July 2020

  • ‘I thought this was it’ … Rowland, who believes he had Covid-19.

    Kevin Rowland on the My Beauty furore: 'I wasn't cracking up. I just wanted to wear a dress'

    The Dexys star was ridiculed for wearing a dress and stockings on an album cover. Two decades on, he hits back – and relives the night he thought Covid-19 was going to kill him

May 2018

  • Loyal customers … Paul Weller, Martin Freeman and Kevin Rowland.

    The man who dressed the mods: ‘They were jumping up and down for my shirts!'

    His shops triggered a British style explosion – and he’s idolised by sharp-dressed superstars like Martin Freeman and Paul Weller. Meet John Simons, whose windows are ‘like theatre’

July 2016

  • Dexys

    Music blog
    Dexys, the band who confound you with their strangeness – and then their brilliance

    Watch our premiere of the video for their single, Grazing in the Grass – just the latest maverick move from a group who never stand still

June 2016

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Dexys: Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul review – inspired

  • Dexys

    Dexys: Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul review – a playful triumph

May 2016

  • Kevin Rowland of Dexys, who answered your questions during our live webchat.

    Culture webchats
    Kevin Rowland webchat – your questions answered on Dexys, darts and pink suits

    Did he really crash the 1966 World Cup? How’s his lindy hop? And what does he think of his fashion critics? The Dexys frontman answered your questions
  • Kevin Rowland

    Kevin Rowland: ‘I’ve expressed myself in the way I wanted’

    Soon to release a cover album of his favourite songs, the Dexys frontman talks about his Irish roots, his grudges – and why he wore a dress for Reading 1999
  • Imagining Ireland At Royal Festival Hall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: English singer-songwriter Kevin Rowland of 'Dexys Midnight Runners' fame performs at 'Imagining Ireland' a musical conversation between Ireland and England through the songs of the last hundred years at Southbankcentre's the Royal Festival Hall on April 29, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Redferns)

    Imagining Ireland review – remembering in song the rebels with a cause

    Powerful performances from singers including Kevin Rowland and Cáit O’Riordan commemorated the 1916 Easter Rising but also the musical links between Britain and Ireland

December 2015

  • The Human League in 1981

    Music blog
    Forget 1966, because 1981 was pop's year of revolution

    While Jon Savage has been hailing the mid-60s, there’s a case to be made that we’re about to mark the 35th anniversary of pop’s greatest year

October 2014

  • Dexys Midnight Runners in Birmingham, March 1980, with Kevin Rowland (front) and Jim Paterson (far right).

    ‘We were always hard workers’: Kevin Rowland and Big Jim Paterson on their favourite Dexys songs

    From rehearsals in a warehouse to battles with record companies, lineup changes, and an attempt to write the new Bohemian Rhapsody, the singer and his long-serving trombonist share the stories behind the hits

April 2013

  • Wiley

    This week's new live music

  • Kevin Rowland of Dexys

    Other Voices festival day two: Villagers and Dexys – video

November 2012

  • Kevin Rowland

    Music stars of 2012
    Kevin Rowland, Dexys: stars of 2012

    Dropping 'Midnight Runners' from their name, Dexys released One Day I'm Going To Soar, their fourth studio album, in June this year. Their first since 1985, the album and their shows were hugely well-received by critics and fans

July 2012

  • Kevin Rowland

    Fashion blog
    Kevin Rowland: 'My motto is "never not shopping"'

    The Dexys singer has been derided for his choice of clothes in the past. But as David Hellqvist finds out, the Soul Rebel thinks he looks better than ever these days

June 2012

  • Dexys: One Day I'm Going to Soar – review

    Their first album in 27 years finds Kevin Rowland and Dexys still on form, writes Kitty Empire

May 2012

  • Dexys: One Day I'm Going to Soar – review

    Kevin Rowlands has gone all-out for the high-camp, red-velvet theatricality on the Dexys comeback album, and that's just fine, writes Maddy Costa
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