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Another baking hot summers day and back at St Anne’s park Raheny Dublin, this times its Pulp to headline with Richard Hawley and The Orielles opening. The Orielles photos & set-list: AirtightBobbi’s Second WorldThe RoomBeam/sChromo IIThe Instrument Richard Hawley Photos & set-list: Off My MindAloneTonight The Streets Are oursDon’t Stare At The SunI’m Looking For …

Thursday night at the Leadmill Sheffield for Richard Hawley and impressively the third sold out show of the week. Support tonight came from Before Breakfast, hailing from Sheffield the band have an individual sound with the hook being superb vocal harmony. Great audience banter from singer Gina Walters, an all round relaxed set of mainly …

Words and Photos by Mick Ryan. My hometown of Kilkenny has hosted some big named acts over the years with Dylan, Young and even “The Boss” himself playing in this small city in the southeast of Ireland and last night was no different as we welcomed Sheffield’s finest Richard Hawley . One of Irelands most …

Richard Hawley brought his full band to Dublin’s 3Olympia for a sell out show with Studio Electrophonique stepping up as support. Opening the night was Sheffield’s James Leesley aka Studio Electrophonique who played a 30 minute set of 7 songs and sounding at times (to my ear) a little like David Baker. Starting his set …

Sheffield’s Richard Hawley is not only the King of Sheffield (anyone want to argue with that?), he is also the King of Consistency. That might sound like damning with faint praise but it’s not; it’s the greatest of compliments in a world of regular musical mediocrity.   Hawley manages to put out albums of the …

Me and the musical Prince of Sheffield Richard Hawley have history. Sadly, history that he’s blissfully unaware of. Back in 1989, or it could have been 1988, slightly drunk on cheap cans of Skol, Richard Hawley thanked me after I said ‘nice job’ or some suchlike pleasantry after seeing his band of the time Treebound …

In my day it was called YTS. When you wanted to learn a ‘trade’ like plumbing, or typewriting, or being a zookeeper (probably) or a footballer, you signed up on a course that was part schooling and part learning on the job, and they (the government that is) paid you something like £17.50 per week …