Tim Burgess on ‘Too-Rye-Ay’ by Dexys Midnight Runners: ‘This album has travelled with me all over the world’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But Too-Rye-Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners always been there in my life, ever since I first heard “Come On Eileen” in the summer of 1982, when I was 15 years old. When you think about Dexys Midnight Runners, you picture all those stylistic changes and their vision for the band, whether it’s becoming Irish traditional, dungaree-wearing, banjo-playing Dexys, or Mean Streets Dexys – when they dressed like New York dock workers – or the suave Ivy League look of their third album, Don’t Stand Me Down. I remember writing “Crashin’ In” from The Charlatans’ fourth album – that song uses a similar chord sequence, because back then we were taking things from different places to help us with our songwriting. open image in gallery John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, Kevin Rowland and Helen O’Hara of Dexys Midnight Runners performing in 1983 This record has travelled with me all over the world.