Dexys at the Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonThose with an ear only casually tilted towards pop music will know Dexys (formerly Dexy's Midnight Runners) as dungaree-clad flashes in the pan, famous for Come On Eileen, their 1982 hit about trying to get into a girl's pants. When student unions and pubs still had things called jukeboxes in them, it was on every single one, played every night as the closing hour of lurching lust arrived.Rarely have pan-flashes had more substance than Dexys, though. A Black Country...

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