The record’s title track and centrepiece defines this spirit, as it develops into a brutal self satire on an evening spent in a Paris hotel. “That explorative period after being in a long relationship – you find yourself in situations where your bravado about what’s happened and the reality are two different things.” “They are things that I’ve experienced or seen,” he says of the album’s subject matter. From thrilling affairs that dissolve into sweaty desperation (Night Chancers) to the absurd bloggers fruitlessly clinging to the fag ends of the fashion set (Sleep People), via soiled real life (Slum Lord), social media-enable stalkers (I’m Not Your Dog) and new day, sleep-deprived optimism (Daylight), the record’s finely drawn vignettes are all based on the corners of a world Dury has visited. If Dury isn’t always coming from a personal point of view on every song – and there are still plenty of moments where he lays his life out lyrically – he is speaking from candid, firsthand experience. On some of the tracks different characters appear.” “So they’re not all confessional, it’s more of a feeling projected into a filmic narrative. “It’s meant to be a bit Kubrick-y, a psychological journey through the maze bit in The Shining,” he suggests of the conscious progression across the album. However, while Dury’s last record, the acclaimed Prince Of Tears, was a cinematic confessional trying to stay afloat on the seas of relationship failure, Night Chancers finds the songwriter adopting a more directorial approach to his tracks, sketching out people and situations as he initially dives deep into the darkness before reaching an emotional dawn. Trying to fit into the modern world, avoiding the barbed wire between youth and maturity.” “It was the period after Prince Of Tears I guess, halfway between heartbreak and getting back on your feet, when you’re rebuilding – not necessarily successfully – your outlook on life. “It is informed by one’s current behavioural patterns,” suggests Dury of these adventures on the seedier side.

Well, love is not necessarily the right word but these creatures and constructs are the inspirations for the songwriter’s new album, Night Chancers, a ten-song gaze into the black hours and the characters and behaviours that swirl around within them. For information on refunds please contact your point of purchase.”įailed fashionistas, Instagram voyeurs, jilted Romeos reeking insecurity, the willingly self-deluded, the comically unaware, the Night Chancers… “Baxter loves you!” We now feel it’s time to cancel this tour. “Hello everyone, I’m sorry to announce that our Uk and European dates starting in February 2021 cannot go ahead due to the ongoing covid-19 situation. Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation muss das Konzert leider ersatzlos abgesagt werden.

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