Nige Tassell NINE EIGHT
Entertaining roll call of former Midnight Runners.
ith a titular nod to Dexys’ album (a similarly punk-adjacent, West Midlands-spawned debut to , that saw passionate visionary Kevin Rowland doing for brass-driven soul exactly what Jerry Dammers had chronicles long-time fan and investigative author of Nige Tassell’s avowed quest to track down and interview literally dozens of former band members. Each protagonist gets a chapter wherein they tell their tale, from birth through Dexys years (sometimes only months) and subsequent careers to benefit-of-hindsight (if rarely rose-tinting) date.
