Review Fix Exclusive: Docksuns’ Stephen Keogh Talks ‘Dancing on the Radio’

June 18, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with the Docksuns’ Stephen Keogh, who discusses the band’s origin, new single and goals amid the COVID-19 era of music.

Review Fix: How did the project start? 

Stephen Keogh: The band was put together at the start of 2019 by Neil Douthwaite (lead guitarist/songwriter) who responded to an Instagram story of Glenn Laws (drummer), playing the guitar. Close friend James Baxter (singer/songwriter) who had been writing music with Neil for the past 7 years also joined and brought along 2 members of our old band, Me (Guitar/Songwriter) and Adam Dawkins (Bass).

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like? 

Keogh: With our band having three songwriters, we usually collate all our ideas, either as voice clips or videos on our phones and bounce them across to each other on a daily basis. This then gets took to rehearsals and our songs slowly develop.  

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written? 

Keogh: It has to be our new single ‘Dancing on the Radio’. It’s an uplifting feel good summer tune. James (Singer/songwriter) just start playing it during a rehearsal session, he’ll probably have had it saved on his phone for weeks. The first time we all heard him play it we knew it was going to be a massive tune. We spend a full weekend in the studio recording it and experimenting with new ideas and sound which we think has turned out spot on! 

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020? 

Keogh: Due to current situation, we aim to keep on writing and recording as much as we can. We are currently in the process of releasing some new merch.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people? 

Keogh: With everything that’s going on around the world, we’d love our music to reach out to and shine some light on people that are going through tough times. Just like Richard Ashcroft said, “Music is power” I strongly believe in the message he is trying to preach. 

Review Fix: What’s next? 

Keogh: Plans for the future have took a major set back due to the current global pandemic that going on, however, our plans haven’t changed. We still have dates booked in at the studio, as we’ve got a catalogue full of tunes that are ready to go. We still want to continue playing shows up and down the country, but we’d love to venture further a-field, like a tour of Europe! We have a new single as well, “Dancing on the Radio” which we are buzzing about.  

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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