Dexys Midnight Runners announce David Holmes-produced final album, share “My Life In England Pt. 1”

Dexys Midnight Runners have signed to esteemed UK indie label Heavenly and announced their first album for them. LOVE was produced by David Holmes (Primal Scream, Noel Gallagher), is their first under the full Dexy’s Midnight Runners name since 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down , and will be the “final chapter” in their story. The album will be out September 4.

On the album, frontman Kevin Rowland explores stories “from his 2nd generation Irish childhood and family relationships to late-life romance, loss and reconciliation.” The first single from the album is “My Life In England Pt. 1” and you can watch the video below.

“We put out a version of this song on a compilation album in 2003, but I felt we could improve on it,” says Rowland. “I wrote it a long time ago with Jim [Patterson], along with ‘My Life in England Pt. 2’. It’s all memories of my own experiences. Pete, that’s my brother. In my book [ Bless Me Father ], I changed his name to Pat. There’s quite a lot of overlap with the book in this one. We were in England dreaming of America: it was pre-Beatles, so it was Elvis, it was Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay, clothes, all of it was America. In the second verse, I’m remembering being in a social club listening to everyone singing Kevin Barry [a song about 18 year-old medical student and IRA soldier Kevin Barry, executed by the British government on 1st November, 1920] and my mum telling me ‘This song’s not allowed in England’. It was daytime, and all the curtains were drawn, everyone drinking, singing an illegal song. I remember thinking, Wow, yes, exciting! My childhood memories, I just wrote them down. You can’t really write on behalf of anybody else. Though I realised later that when I was growing up in north-west London, loads of the kids around there were second generation Irish. All obsessed with being up the front with the best clothes, with dancing to the new records.”

Watch the video below.

Dexys Midnight Runners will be on tour in the UK and Ireland this fall and dates are below.

While best known for smash hit “Come On Eileen” in the US, Dexys have many hits in the UK and Ireland, where all of their albums have gone Top 30.

LOVE

My Life In England Pt. 1

You’ve Got The Love

Once A Man, Twice a Child

You’re Alright

I Want To Be Holding You Next Christmas

I’ll Always Love You

Strange Feelin’

It’s Over Now

Old Love

My Life In England Pt. 2

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – 2026 Tour Dates

Oct 20, 2026 – Glasgow, UK – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Oct 21, 2026 – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK – O2 City Hall

Oct 23, 2026 – Wolverhampton, UK – University of Wolverhampton at the Civic Hall

Oct 25, 2026 – Manchester, UK – Opera House

Oct 27, 2026 – London, UK – Hackney Empire

Oct 28, 2026 – London, UK – Hackney Empire

Oct 30, 2026 – Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange

Nov 1, 2026 – Brighton, UK – Brighton Dome

Nov 4, 2026 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia Theatre

Nov 5, 2026 – Belfast, UK – Ulster Hall

Nov 6, 2026 – Galway, Ireland – Black Box

Nov 8, 2026 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/dexys-midnight-runners-announce-david-holmes-produced-final-album-share-my-life-in-england-pt-1/)._