Two-time Mercury prize nominated songwriter and guitarist Richard Hawley, who has performed with the Longpigs and Pulp, performed in Manchester this week
A good friend of mine once described listening to Richard Hawley’s music as like ‘getting underneath your favourite blanket’. It’s a line that stuck with me.
Two new tracks quickly follow. Two for his Heels is a bluesy stomp that sways hips across the floor. Prism in Jeans a beautifully affecting 50s ballad, with the band feuding flickering acoustic guitars across the stage. Hawley introduces Just Like the Rain, as a ‘song I wrote when I was 16’, with a quip that it ‘proves I must have been a miserable b******, even then’.
And that’s what Richard Hawley seems to perfect. For all of the gruff social comment, and working mens club like banter, he is the master of prompting that nostalgic romanticism that one can’t help but be drawn in by. ‘These lights in our hearts they tell no lies’. The song’s strings swirl and the chorus wraps up all around them.
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