Richard Hawley - 'Standing At The Sky’s Edge'
The slashers, the gamblers, the thieves; Sky Edge in Sheffield wasn’t the celestial scene the name suggests. In the 1920s the Flying Squad came to Yorkshire to clean up the gang warfare and gambling that blighted this lawless promontory...
Richard Hawley
For one night only, it’s the Albert Hawley!” proclaims tonight’s star attraction, clearly chuffed to bits to be playing this most salubrious of London venues. The Albert Hall is so aesthetically pleasing and historically iconic that it’s...
Richard Hawley and Maps
We begin as we end – Vincent Vincent And The Villains get things underway by paying homage to dark ’50s rock’n’roll. They make a decent fist of it, too, before James Chapman aka Maps take the stage. His electro-based gems seem a little...
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley must surely be sick to the back teeth of people citing Alex Turner’s Mercury quip, especially when the first single from ‘Lady’s Bridge’ was as gorgeous as this. He might not have headlined Old Trafford, but this year...
Richard Hawley
Obviously everybody at NME is far too cool to listen to real rockabilly, but if that’s how Richard Hawley (aka God) describes this, then that’s exactly what it is. And, against our better judgement perhaps, we like it. One of the faster cuts...
Richard Hawley
…and meanwhile, all the way back home in the sunny old city of steel It’s a rubble to ritz story up there with the best of them: time was when Richard Hawley was just another journeyman – an ageing, unsung Sheffield musician with stints...
Richard Hawley
When the Arctic Monkeys shouted “Someone call 999! Richard Hawley’s been robbed!” after winning the Mercury Prize ahead of him last year, it wasn’t just Sheffield comradeship. ‘Tonight The Streets Are Ours’ is precisely the slab of...
Richard Hawley: Lady's Bridge
We tried not to do any tricks,� Alex Turner drawls into the mic, narrow-eyed as ever. �There�s far too many people trying to do tricks on their albums these days.� Richard Hawley nods a tiny flicker of agreement as the camera...
Hawley, Richard : That's Alright Mama
A purely coincidental riposte to the commotion around the grisly 'A Little Less Conversation' one hopes, this finds the talented and leather-lunged Mr. Hawley crooning effortlessly through a 'version' of everyone's favourite truck-drivers...
Hawley, Richard : Baby You're My Light
One of the records on this page could be Number One next Sunday - tragically, it won't be this one, but perhaps with the kind of low-key epiphanies that Richard Hawley trades in, that's fairly appropriate. The perfect combination of hopeless...
