Dexy's Midnight Runners News

Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band will perform at Worthen Village Hall, near Shrewsbury, at 8pm on Saturday.

It's "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. said JR on June 5, 2009 12:45 PM.

BASS player and singer Pete Williams, of 70s rock band Dexys Midnight Runners fame, is tuning up to pass the beat to would-be music makers in a unique evening course at a Halesowen school.

Dexys Midnight Runners are best known in America as one of new wave's ultimate one-hit wonders, thanks to their 1982 number one smash "Come on Eileen," a distinctive fusion of '80s pop, Celtic folk, and blue-eyed soul.

There is pop, and there is popular, and then there's popular . And there's also "timeless". Sometimes when people say that a record is "timeless" - let's pick on, oh, a Radiohead album - they mean it will be listened to and loved say twenty years from now.

Phone 0116 251 0080 The Rumble Strips are a Dexy's Midnight Runners for a new era: a bunch of trumpet-wielding indie oddballs with tunes as infectious as bird flu.

"Ignition" - R. Kelly "Come on Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners "Bicycle Race" - Queen "Did you see the words" - Animal Collective "Playas gonna Play" - 3LW "Mushaboom" - Feist "Freaker by the Speaker" - ...

Today's playlist at the Studio Muskrat: the 80's mix. Every song had some meaning to me, between 20 and 30 years ago.

It was a case of third time unlucky as former St Helens coach Ellery Hanley bowed out of Dancing On Ice.

'TOO-RYE-AY' Kevin Rowland & Dexy's Midnight Runners 1982 Tracks/time: 10/43 minutes, 28 seconds.