Richard Dawson’s incredible new album, Peasant, is released today on Weird World / Domino. The deluxe and weighty yellow vinyl version arrived yesterday at FRUK HQ and looks beautiful, very befitting of the music inside. To coincide with the release, Dawson has shared a new video for ‘Weaver’ which is also our Song of the Day. A song which is ‘roughly five and a half minutes long, depending on how you perceive time’. Richard Dawson himself presents the new video thus: –
“’Did you feel it? The spinning door was in the air for a while and then it closed. I hope you didn’t get left behind! The last zone of life is finished now. How does it feel to be alive at the beginning of a brand new grand cosmic era? The time is now. Please enjoy this song about wool’.”
Dawson will support the release of Peasant with a full UK tour – his first featuring a full live band. Alongside the headline dates include spots at the Supersonic and Green Man festivals. Joining Dawson will be long-time collaborators violinist Angharad Davies plus Johnny Hedley and Matt Baty of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.
Dawson has also confirmed a number of solo in-store performances for the album’s week of release at Rise in Bristol, Banquet Records in Kingston and Rough Trade East in London.
Saturday 3rd June | Rise, Bristol, UK (solo in-store performance)
Monday 5th June | Banquet Records, Kingston, UK (solo in-store performance)
Tuesday 6th June | Rough Trade East, London, UK (solo in-store performance)
Thursday 8th June| Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
Friday 9th June | Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, UK
Saturday 10th June | The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
Sunday 11th June| Art School, Glasgow, UK
Saturday 17th June | Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK
Thursday 22nd June | St John on Bethnal Green, London, UK
Friday 23rd June| Fiddlers, Bristol, UK
Saturday 24th June| South St. Arts, Reading, UK
Sunday 25th June| Old Hove Market, Brighton & Hove
August 17th – 20th | Green Man Festival | Brecon Beacons, UK
Stream the album Here
Pre-order Peasant deluxe via Dom Mart HERE
Pre-order Peasant standard via Dom Mart HERE
Pre-order Peasant digitally HERE
Photo Credit: Kuba Ryniewicz