Richard Hawley announces December 2024 UK tour
Richard Hawley has announced four UK tour dates for December 2024 – find ticket details below.
He will be hitting the road for a series of shows which kick off at Cardiff Tramshed on December 2. Further dates will call at Sunderland, Nottingham and London.
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am BST and can be purchased here. You can the full list of dates below.
The tour will see the Sheffield singer-songwriter performing songs from his 10th studio album ‘In This City They Call You Love’.
In his previous summer tour, he took aim at the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his show at the Eventim Apollo in London.
“You know, I’m 57 years old and I’ve seen some fucking arsehole politicians, but Sunak takes the fucking piss,” he said at the time.
“The thing that slaughters me is the fact that literally probably about a week ago, he came up with a stupid fucking idea to enlist teenagers for a year or two years or whatever, poor fuckers, you know what I mean?” Hawley continued.
“That bastard couldn’t even manage a day, you know what I mean?”
Richard Hawley will play:
DECEMBER
2 – Cardiff Tramshed
3 – Sunderland Fire Station
4 – Nottingham The Level
5 – London Hackney Church
Elsewhere, Self Esteem recently said that at some point she wants to a do a record with Hawley. “My other little dream is that I’m going to do another album still living in the same Self Esteem world but then I wanna do an album with Richard Hawley. Remember like that Alison Krauss and Robert Plant?, I wanna do something like that.”
Taylor previously teamed up with Hawley for Peggy Lee‘‘s ‘Fever’ and Nancy Sinatra‘s ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ during the opening night of his Sheffield Leadmill residency in 2022.
Last year, he also told NME that he would up for collaborating with the singer-songwriter in the future.
“Rebecca is amazing. You can throw anything at her and she’ll just perform it so well – like she’s been singing it for years,” Hawley said. “We keep talking about doing something together. I’d like it; I think we would be interesting. We get on great and she’s a right laugh. I admire her guts to take on the mantle that she does. To do it so fearlessly is quite a rare thing these days. I admire her very much.”
Meanwhile, his recent album was awarded four stars by NME, with the record being described as capturing “a sense of aching beauty through vivid odes to the characters and architectural quirks of his hometown.”
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