Nearly Dan

Nearly Dan is a homage act devoted to the songs of Steely Dan, the partnership of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The night takes place at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, a former working men's club that now hosts concerts.

Nearly Dan is a homage to Steely Dan rather than a performance by the original duo. The act aims to be faithful to the records, with the close, carefully built grooves and allusive lyrics of Fagen and Becker, while keeping a relaxed manner and a spontaneous sense of humour on stage. The project is now in its 29th year touring, with a new line-up for its current run.

Steely Dan released seven platinum albums between 1972 and 1980, with songs such as Reelin'in the Years, Do It Again, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Deacon Blues, Peg and FM. The pair reunited in the early 1990s, and Two Against Nature, released in 2000, won multiple Grammy Awards, followed by Everything Must Go in 2003. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and Walter Becker died in September 2017.

The concerts mix well-known Steely Dan hits with less frequently played album tracks, drawing on Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho, as well as Donald Fagen's solo album The Nightfly. The Brudenell Social Club began as a working men's club and mainly hosts pop, rock and indie concerts.