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100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist

  • January 1, 2022
  • Jim F
In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those…
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Album Review: Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki

  • November 27, 2021
  • John Parry
Think of those records inspired by plants…Stevie’s sprawling ‘Journey Through The Secret Life of’, Edgar Froese’s pondering on ‘Epsilon in Malaysian Pale’, Genesis hailing a ‘Return of the Giant Hogweed’…
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News: In The Round festival returns to The Roundhouse in January, featuring Goat Girl, Richard Dawson, Emeli Sandé and more

  • November 9, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
NOW INTO its sixth year – though, for reasons we need not dwell on now, not its sixth consecutive – the multivalent In The Round festival is back at The…
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See: Richard Dawson/Circle reveal ‘Methuselah’, an epic rush of folk /metal story telling.

  • October 27, 2021
  • John Parry
Ever tried keeping up with Richard Dawson? It’s a challenge that always pays off. Over the past couple of years we’ve been gifted his reflective and resonant song craft on…
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LIVE REVIEW: Richard Dawson, The Barbican, London

  • October 27, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
YOU HAVE to take your hat off to everyone at the Barbican – and, as we were told by Erland Cooper in the very first of these sessions – a…
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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans

  • September 28, 2020
  • John Parry
Once again they come from the north-Hen Ogledd, time travelling space pop troubadours with music of weird and wonky magic. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and…
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NEWS: Super Cool Drawing Machine: with no gigs, musicians are touring art instead

  • September 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
NO GIGS. No. Gigs. Now imagine pulling a random aside in the corridor at some New Year’s party at say, ooh, 1.34am, as the beer can fortresses advance across every…
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TRACK: Hen Ogledd – ‘Trouble’: further glorious wonkpop from Richard Dawson’s quartet

  • August 3, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
WHAT started as a side-project for Newcastle’s premiere exponent of passionate out- and wyrd-folk, Richard Dawson, to find an outlet for other musical stylings, has come to take on a…
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News: Weird World to reissue Richard Dawsons albums The Magic Bridge and Glass Trunk

  • October 20, 2015
  • Jim F
Already on his way to becoming a national treasure and oft the recipient of patronage from the likes of Marc Riley, Newcastle singer-songwriter Richard Dawson’s record label Weird World are…
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