Posts Tagged ‘Richard Hawley’

LONGPIGS – ” The Sun Is Often Out  ” Vinyl Reissue

Posted: March 23, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Longpigs / The Sun is Often Out signed blue vinyl LP

British 90s band The Longpigs‘ first album “The Sun Is Often Out” is being reissued on vinyl. The band were fronted by Crispin Hunt and featured guitarist Richard Hawley and this 1996 debut delivered four top 40 hit singles. Five singles were released from the album, initially to little success. including “On and On” which peaked at number 16 in the UK chart. The Longpigs debut album The Sun Is Often Out is an ambitious, darkly romantic album that owes quite a bit to the modernized anthem-rock of Radiohead. Although the band doesn’t quite have Radiohead’s talent for making the bombastic seem utterly personal, there are several moments of brilliance on the album — particularly the singles “Far,” “She Said” and “On and On” — suggesting that their appealingly neo-gothic sonic textures will develop into something distinctive on their second album.

This album was issued on U2’s Mother label and with CD the popular format of the day, only ever got a small run on vinyl, meaning it’s incredible hard to get hold of at sensible prices.

This signed coloured vinyl edition appears to now be sold, but the next best thing is the unsigned blue vinyl. It will be released on 8th May 2020. The Sun Is Often Out was declared one of 1996’s 50 best albums by both Q and Melody Maker.

Longpigs

  • Crispin Hunt – vocals, guitar
  • Richard Hawley – guitar, vocals
  • Simon Stafford – bass, piano, hammond, vocals
  • Dee Boyle – drums, vocals

RICHARD HAWLEY – ” Heart Of Oak “

Posted: July 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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The track “Heart Of Oak‘ is taken from the new album titled “Hollow Meadow”, which will be released on September 11th. Recorded at Sheffield’s Yellow Arch Studio in spring 2015,  The new album Hollow Meadows sees Richard Hawley return to the classic, sophisticated songwriting style and subtle arrangements that made him so revered in the first place. Meditating on such themes as ageing, fallibility and relationships, So much of the album shares a brooding, yet wistful and romantic atmosphere in keeping with his earlier albums Late Night Final and Lowedges, as well as touches of 2009’s Truelove’s Gutter and Standing At The Sky’s Edge. The album features some notable guests from the UK folk scene, Hawley’s neighbour and friend Martin Simpson, and Nancy Kerr. Other guests include one of Hawley’s oldest and dearest friends, Jarvis Cocker, and the Hick Street Chip Shop Singers, who are made up of various Sheffield luminaires, including Slow Club’s Rebecca Taylor.

Richard Hawley will undertake a 13-date tour of the UK and Ireland this autumn. This will be his longest UK tour in three years and include his largest ever Sheffield show, when he plays his first hometown show in over two years, at Sheffield Arena on November 6th. Visit richardhawley.co.uk/tour/ for more details and tickets.