Richard Hawley will play UK gigs in September.
It’ll be a year on from his most recent solo album ‘Hollow Meadows‘ when shows at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle, York Fibbers and Queens Hall in Edinburgh take place, the news coming just after he played at Guy Garvey‘s Meltdown Festival in London. Also, he’ll be at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin on July 22nd with the very special guest Wilko Johnson.
“All in all this record’s beauty can be summed up by the simplicity of ‘Nothing Like a Friend‘, which really is something special,” we said of ‘Hollow Meadows’. “It demonstrates Hawley’s brilliance, by feeling simple, natural, and yet somehow slightly ethereal. And this is constant throughout; no matter what Hawley turns his hand to, it is always steady. He has a light touch, so much so that some of its brilliance is almost imperceptible, but look close enough and it’s there.”
“Hawley is becoming Sheffield’s greatest musical troubadour, involved in music for the sheer love of it. This isn’t contrived; instead ‘Hollow Meadows’ is a true reflection of an artist at the peak of their extraordinary powers.”
Tour dates:
SEPTEMBER
Newcastle Boiler Shop (16)
York Fibbers (17)
Edinburgh Queens Hall (22)