We are you friends, Baxter – Baxter Dury live in Stockholm

Baxter Dury is the son of Ian Dury, he gained fame as a young boy alongside his dad on the cover of Dury’s album “New Boots and Panties”. Baxter left school at the age of fourteen, the same age he drank his first beer and smoked his first joint. A childhood and youth like that is not easy, and even as an adult it is certainly difficult to assert your coolness next to such a larger-than-life role model and father.

And so he had to struggle until he found his way and until he realized – in his mid-20s – that he too wanted to try his hand at being a musician and poet. Is this following in his father’s footsteps or is he simply looking for an outlet to let out the frustration of the big name? Probably both… and so he did. It took a while for Baxter Dury to assert himself in the music scene, to be recognized and respected without reference to his dad.

Now he is over 50 and reveals all his talent. Live, he presents himself as a broken, megalomaniac, yet he is more disciplined, ambitious and talented than he admits. In Stockholm, he revealed all his skills on the Debaser stage. He thrills his fans, confuses and fascinates at the same time. He is much more than a musician, he is a poet, a storyteller with an endless pool of anecdotes from his life, the world of a post-star, the world of a boy who grew up surrounded by the biggest pop stars of his childhood – with all the advantages and disadvantages.

On stage, he inspires with his aloofness, (feigned) arrogance and dance moves that suggest something between TaiChi, KungFu and classical ballet. Overall he is an remains a mystery – But the music should be in the center of attention, anyway- it is and it is really great