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Speaker 1: Dexi's Midnight Runners have got a brand new song called coming.

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Speaker 2: Home You Worry, such a catching song.

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Speaker 1: We got Kevin from DEXes on the zoom morny mate,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm breathing.

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Speaker 4: I love coming Home.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic song, a good throwback to

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Speaker 1: the sound of the good pop songs I think of

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Speaker 1: the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you. I'm really happy with it.

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Speaker 1: And I imagine with Dexies it would be a case

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Speaker 1: of you trying to find where you fit into things

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Speaker 1: as well, because you know, we talk about the band

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Speaker 1: having a billion streams that would have meant nothing in

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Speaker 1: the eighties.

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Speaker 3: I quite like it. I like to be minimalistic.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've got rid of my record player years

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Speaker 5: ago and haven't got a new one, and I got

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Speaker 5: rid of my CDs, and I'm quite happy with that.

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Speaker 3: I quite like that minimalistic aspect of it. But I

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Speaker 3: like Spotify and all that stuff.

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Speaker 5: But it's only the means of change, and I guess

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Speaker 5: you would notice that more than me.

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Speaker 3: The principles remain the same.

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Speaker 5: Got good songs and if you've got something to say

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Speaker 5: and it's interesting, people are interested. You have to sort

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Speaker 5: of create a buzz. Now it's in a different way.

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Speaker 5: When we started off, you would play live. That's what

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Speaker 5: we did in Birmingham. We got a residency and we

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Speaker 5: played the same place every week and just more and

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Speaker 5: more people started coming. Now you've got to create that

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Speaker 5: buzz in another way with the online or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But I think the principles remain the same. It's just

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Speaker 3: the means of changing.

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Speaker 1: It's a dio I almost like the punk astatic, isn't it,

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Speaker 1: where you're doing a lot of it yourself.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's great.

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Speaker 5: I mean you can actually just get your music director people.

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Speaker 5: That's incredible really back in the early.

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Speaker 1: Days, but how did you fit in to everything that

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Speaker 1: was evolving around you musically, because you know, I guess

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Speaker 1: you were lumped in with scar you lumped in with punk,

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Speaker 1: there was the Northern style aspect.

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Speaker 4: Then you came out with a completely different look.

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Speaker 5: We tried to be the outsiders, so we were always

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Speaker 5: just trying to do our own thing, really and not

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Speaker 5: never trying to fit in, always trying to be different.

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Speaker 1: Now the Midnight Runners has gone. Was that in some

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Speaker 1: sense of rebirth for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It was a rebirth in a way. It was

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Speaker 3: like a long.

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Speaker 5: Time off over twenty five years, so when we came back,

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Speaker 5: we wanted to say it's us, but we're not the same.

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Speaker 5: We're not trying to be a revival band, you know,

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Speaker 5: we're not trying to say for us in the eighties.

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Speaker 3: We're doing something new, but it's still us. We're not

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Speaker 3: living in the past, you know. That's what we were

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Speaker 3: trying to say with that name.

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Speaker 5: Everybody called us DEXes anyway, and it just felt like

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Speaker 5: to drop the Midnight Runners.

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Speaker 3: It's a young sounding name, you know.

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Speaker 4: Well you've brought in a new genre anyway, if nothing else.

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Speaker 5: Synth cabaret, well that's the girl who wrote the press.

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 4: If we're going to have something, we're going to latch

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Speaker 4: our bandwagon too.

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Speaker 1: It may as well be something catchy and new, and

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Speaker 1: you may as well be at the forefront of the

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Speaker 1: sink cabaret movement. It's the new Dexas album, The Feminine

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Speaker 1: Divine is out later on this month, and I think

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Speaker 1: we should play the classic Come on, Eileen, I