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Manchester Psych Fest announces Baxter Dury, The Horrors, Temples, NewDad, Mdou Moctar, Juniore and more in the first wave of its bands for their 2024 edition which will take place on 31 August 2024 in venues across the city. Following on from its 10th birthday earlier this year, Manchester Psych Fest 2024 will bring Baxter Dury and The …

Baxter Dury has shared the video for ‘Celebrate Me’ the third track from his forthcoming seventh studio album ‘I Thought I Was Better Than You’, due on the 2nd of June via Heavenly Recordings. Baxter on his new track “A stream of consciousness rant about being predictably bohemian, west London-ish and attention seeking.”  There really isn’t anyone that sounds like Dury. His glum drawl delivery …

Baxter Dury returns with a new track ‘Aylesbury Boy’, taken from his seventh studio album ‘I Thought I Was Better Than You’, due for release on the 2nd of June via Heavenly Recordings. On the new track Baxter says: “This song is about coming from one place and arriving at another without fitting in to either, and I think of these …

Dark Mofo is back in town, there’s snow on kunyani/Mount Wellington, the temperatures have plunged, and all is good in the world. Except for the bits that aren’t. In the glorious Odeon Theatre, Baxter Dury appears in his trademark creased white suit like a forgotten gin-soaked bureaucrat at some diplomatic post in some far flung …

Any uncertainty about Baxter Dury’s parentage is quickly dispelled the minute he starts singing. If singing is the right term: he is a blistering, sardonic cockney raconteur just like his brilliant dad (Ian Dury, in case you are not up to speed). The video release of his new song, “Miami” reminds me of the panache …