Richard Hawley

Austra, The Unthanks and Richard Hawley set for No Direction Home 2012

New festival with focus on quality from team behind End of the Road

23 May 2012

End of the Road has been the latte-drinking, glam-camping Guardian reader's weekender of choice almost since it's inception in 2006. Picking up plaudits from The Times and The Guardian (of course) as well as an award for 'Best Small Festival' last year…

Richard Hawley, Death in Vegas and Gruff Rhys join Festival No. 6 line-up

Music Gossip

17 May 2012

Richard Hawley, Death in Vegas and Gruff Rhys have been added to the line-up for Festival No. 6. They will join headliners New Order, Primal Scream and Spiritualized at the luxury, boutique festival, held in Portmeirion, Wales from September…

Pulp to tour?

Music Gossip

2 Apr 2012

Jarvis Cocker has suggested Pulp will tour again. The Britpop group - who reunited last year after splitting in 2002 - took to the stage as London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday (31.03.12) as part of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert…

Richard Hawley releases final whisky tracks

Music Gossip

15 Nov 2010

Richard Hawley has released the final two of his whisky-inspired tracks. The singer/songwriter completes his 'Dufftown Songs' set with tracks 'The River' and 'Opening the Bottle', the second and third instalments in his cycle about the whisky making…

Richard Hawley launches whisky tracks

Music Gossip

21 Oct 2010

Richard Hawley releases his first whisky inspired track today (21.10.10). The singer and songwriter was inspired to write a set of songs by a visit to the Glenfiddich distillery, Dufftown, in Scotland, earlier this year and he releases his first of…

Richard Hawley's drinking songs

Music Gossip

22 Sep 2010

Richard Hawley is planning to write a set of songs devoted to whisky. The guitarist and songwriter is to produce three tracks inspired by the art of making the traditional strong, alcoholic Scottish drink after visiting a distillery in Dufftown…

Richard Hawley interview

Chatting with the Sheffield troubadour

1 Oct 2009

‘Someone call 999, Richard Hawley’s been robbed!’ shouted Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner on accepting the Mercury Prize in 2006, indicating the high esteem he had for his fellow Sheffielder, an esteem shared by the likes of Elbow, REM and Jarvis…

Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter

3 Sep 2009

The singular skills of Richard Hawley were brought to the attention of the wider world in 2006 by Arctic Monkeys when, on accepting the Mercury Music Prize, they claimed ‘he was robbed!’ after they pipped his album Cole’s Corner for the prize. Two years…

New gigs announced, 7 July - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, La Roux, Richard Hawley and more

7 Jul 2009

New York trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a date in Scotland at the beginning of December in support of their recently-released, critically-acclaimed third album It's Blitz! Karen O and team play the O2 Academy, Glasgow, Fri 4 Dec. Tickets go on sale…

TV on the Radio - Time for heroes?

13 Nov 2008

Pulp Time to hit big: 12 years Languishing in the back streets of Sheffield and the toilet circuit for almost a decade before Britpop, multiple Mercury nominations and ‘Disco 2000’. Biffy Clyro Time to hit big: nine years In the time they…

Top gigs to watch out for over the next few months

10 Sep 2007

Richard Hawley Sheffield-born singer-songwriter and ex-Pulp/Longpigs man returns with more highly acclaimed epic guitar pop. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 0131 668 2019, Fri 14 Sep. Gwen Stefani Everyone’s favourite ska rocker turned electro pop…