Kevin Rowland In-Conversation with Richard Balls on his memoir ‘Bless Me Father, A life story’

About the show

Kevin Rowland In-Conversation with Richard Balls. Marking the paperback publication of Kevin’s memoir ‘Bless Me Father, A life story’.
Join ‘Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ iconic frontman Kevin Rowland, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music, for a truly special evening discussing his astonishing and subversive memoir, ‘Bless Me Father’.
Kevin will be In-Conversation with acclaimed music biographer Richard Balls, (‘A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan’, ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Life of Ian Dury’).
From the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late ’70s and beyond, Kevin Rowland will recount his darkest hours, deepest desires and greatest joys.
With a truly rare degree of self-insight, the maverick and influential songwriter gives a deeply personal account of an extraordinary life.
The searingly honest, best-selling and critically acclaimed memoir from Dexys’ iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music.
“Warts and all, mainly my own.”