There’ll be an opportunity to reflect on the embryonic stages of Richard Hawley‘s solo career next month when his first three studio albums are re-released.
After a decade on the circuit with bands such as the criminally under-rated Longpigs, and more prominently with Pulp as they entered their final studio throngs with 2001’s ‘We Love Life‘, Hawley went it alone that same year with a self-titled mini album which will be expanded to contain 12 tracks when it is reissued along with ‘Late Night Final‘ and ‘Lowedges‘ on October 27th. The albums will be out on heavyweight vinyl and CD formats.
It was with a move to Mute and the release of 2005’s ‘Coles Corner‘ that Hawley’s prestigious talent started to get the recognition it deserved. That album was nominated for the following year’s Mercury Music Prize, but was beaten by fellow Sheffield act Arctic Monkeys‘ debut ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not‘, prompting the band’s frontman Alex Turner to remark, ‘Someone call 999 Richard Hawley’s been robbed!’.