Richard Hawley takes to the Roundhouse stage in support of Dame Shirley Bassey performing tracks from his anticipated forthcoming album, Truelove's Gutter.
Richard Hawley's career has been spent in pursuit of the perfect pop song. After Cole's Corner and Lady's Bridge, his latest album - Truelove's Gutter - is the latest in a long line of exquisitely crafted love letters to his native Sheffield.
With an expanded musical palette featuring wonderfully strange instruments like the glass harmonica and the haunting tones of a musical saw, the one constant is Hawley's rich baritone. He has said some of his new material was influenced by the death of his father and saw him focus his energies as a singer.
"I wanted to challenge myself quite a lot as a writer, lyricist and I had to admit eventually that I was a singer, and confront that," he admitted. "So I brought quite an expensive microphone for this instead of just guitars."
Enjoy finely crafted melodies and lush instrumentation at the Roundhouse, as Richard Hawley joins Dame Shirley Bassey for an evening of Great British song.
