KEVIN ROWLAND BLESS MY FATHER with WILL HODGKINSON

The Rock 'n' Roll Book Club are beyond thrilled to welcome **Dexys Kevin Rowland** to The Ivy House.

This event celebrates publication of **'Bless Me Father - A Life Story'.**

A searingly honest memoir from **Dexys’** iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music.In this astonishing memoir, Kevin takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late ’70s. An unwavering passion for music and highly tuned sense of fashion and style ignited an unstoppable drive within him, compelling him down a path that led to his huge chart successes with Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s. However, despite being celebrated as a creative genius, inner turmoil was never far away, and a terrifying series of self-sabotaging events were to follow – including a serious cocaine addiction – leaving him in the wilderness in the 1990s, bankrupt, living in a bedsit, on the dole. Always resilient in the face of adversity, after a massive upheaval Kevin found his way back.

**Kevin Rowland** is a British singer-songwriter, best known as the frontman of the influential band Dexys (formerly Dexys Midnight Runners).

**Kevin is in conversation with Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times newspaper**

The Ivy House is accessible.

Presented by ROCK ‘n’ ROLL BOOK CLUB

This is an 18+ event