Just Do It!

Went to see a movie the other night called Nowhere is Home featuring the band Dexys (formerly Dexys Midnight Runners). Plot-wise, the film focuses on a gig given by the band in London last year and peppers it with some general comments, made in an interview afterwards, by frontman, Kevin Rowland, and trombone player, Jimmy Patterson. Much of the talk was about the 26 year hiatus between the last album and the current one and about how the original band split without really fulfilling its potential. Great stuff if you're a Dexys fan (which I am) or want to become one, probably not much in it for you if you're not. Still, everything has its universal moments and this was no different. At one point Rowland tells a brief story about being in a club in London a few years after the original DMR thing had finished and a guy, worse for wear, came up to him and said something like: "You're that guy from Dexys Midnight Runners aren't you?" To which Rowland nodded and said "yeah". Then the guy looked him in the face and said to him: "Why didn't ye just ... ye know ... why didn't ye just do it?" Rowland looked at him, wondered about it a bit but couldn't answer. He says it was one of the best questions he's ever been asked. Thinking about it, it might well be one of the best ones we could ask ourselves too.

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