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Richard Hawley, the singer-songwriter and Sheffield native, has celebrated the release of his greatest hits LP with an intimate live performance at The Grapes, the same pub that saw the Arctic Monkeys’ first gig as a band.
The compilation, titled ‘Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley’, includes 36 songs from his back catalogue, as well as a re-recording of ‘Not The Only Road’ and a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’. The latter was recorded for the finale of season five of Peaky Blinders.
Hawley also recently brought his musical ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’ to the National Theatre, a love letter to his hometown that charts the hopes and dreams of three generations over the course of six tumultuous decades. “The great test will be how well it travels,” he said when discussing the production.
The singer-songwriter is now itching to get back into the studio to work on the follow-up to 2019 album ‘Further’, and has hinted that it might contain some of his trademark angry lyrics. “I don’t know what I fear the most; I don’t know whether I fear COVID more than the fucking Tories,” he said in a recent interview.
Hawley also joined Pulp onstage at their first of two hometown shows in Sheffield in the summer for renditions of ‘Common People’ and ‘Sunrise’. Whether he will collaborate with the Sheffield icons once again remains to be seen, but fans will no doubt be eager to hear what Hawley comes up with next.
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