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Dexters at The Lexington

• 25th Jan 2012

Dexters single, ‘Start To Run’ has recently been awarded the accolade of ‘Q Magazine Track Of The Day’ and appeared on the NME Radar. Coming off the back of a rammed headline Club NME show at KOKO this is their first show of the year and a show not to be missed.

Support comes from Scouse songsmiths, and relatives of The Coral, The Sundowners and London four-piece, Storm Cat.

Feb 1st 2012 @ The Lexington (London)

Tickets can be bought here

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A bit more about DEXTERS…

Groups of good time boys and girls, musicians and renegades, vampires and vagabonds throughout the country are rooted in the same, unenviable and rudimentary limbo, frantically scheming, delicately lock-picking and audaciously plotting for the next strike for gold.

DEXTERS have the master keys to that lock. They stole, or in fact borrowed them from the caretaker of a ramshackle school for young tearaways and juvenile delinquents in the rough part of East London they grew up in, a place that feels a million miles from the chattering of the yuppified Hoxton bars just around the corner.

Said caretaker turns out to be the father of the lead singer and chief songwriter in the band, Tom Rowlett. Matthew (bass) and Jamie (guitar) are the Finnegan brothers, which, historically, throws a potentially volatile dynamic into the pot. Completing the line up are lead guitarist Ben Daboo and Chris Mardon on drums.

This is their place, their zone and their territory, where they incessantly hammer for gold. Dexters get their guitars out, plug them in, slide the benches away and play to a hall full of their eagerly anticipating mates. The stage, usually set for the morning assembly, transforms into Dexters’ all conquering platform, where they’ve been crafting their sound and readying their repertoire to be unleashed.

What’s refreshing about Dexters’ sound is that it can’t be easily pigeon-holed but the band don’t shy away from influences, marvelling at the melodies of The La’s, or even emulating the sheer punk, visceral aggression of The Clash or The Specials onstage.

“The time is right for Dexters,” says Tom. “We hear it everywhere we go that people are ready for a band with big tunes and a proper energetic live show. I sincerely believe we are the band that they are waiting for.”

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