Editing Dexys Midnight Runners (section)

====''Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded'' and cancelled 2022 tour====

In September 2021, Dexys announced both an upcoming 40th-anniversary remix of ''Too-Rye-Ay'', to be done by Rowland, O'Hara, and longtime Dexys engineer Pete Schwier and tentatively entitled ''Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded'', and a September/October 2022 tour to support the reissue.<ref name="remix">{{cite news |url=https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/232848/9 |first=Jon |last=Stickler |title=Dexys Plot Headline UK Tour For 2022, Share Details Of 'Too-Rye-Ay' Rework |work=Stereoboard.com |date=6 September 2021 |accessdate=7 September 2021 |archive-date=6 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906205518/https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/232848/9 |url-status=live }}</ref> The publicity photo for the tour, which would have played the album in its entirety along with other Dexys material, shows, from left to right, Read, Rowland, O'Hara, and Paterson.<ref name="remix" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Just booked: Dexys to perform at York Barbican |url=https://yorkmix.com/just-booked-dexys-to-perform-at-york-barbican/ |website=YorkMix |access-date=8 September 2021 |date=6 September 2021 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908014755/https://yorkmix.com/just-booked-dexys-to-perform-at-york-barbican/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Rowland stated, "There is no way on earth I would be doing this tour or even promoting a normal 40th anniversary re-issue, if it wasn't for the opportunity to remix it and present it how it could have sounded. This is like a new album for me."<ref name="remix" /> The ''Too-Rye-Ay'' 40th anniversary tour was cancelled in March 2022 after Rowland was injured in a motorcycle accident and needed time to recover from this and other health issues.<ref name="dexyscancel">{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Adam |title=Dexy's cancel 40th anniversary Come On Eileen tour due to motorbike accident |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2022/03/16/dexys-cancel-40th-anniversary-come-on-eileen-tour-due-to-kevin-rowlands-motorbike-accident/ |publisher=Express & Star|date=16 March 2022 |access-date=16 March 2022 |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316151246/https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2022/03/16/dexys-cancel-40th-anniversary-come-on-eileen-tour-due-to-kevin-rowlands-motorbike-accident/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the tour would not move forward, the band promised material from the ''Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded'' project would be performed the next time they tour.<ref name="dexyscancel"/>