Last month saw the release of Richard Dawson‘s latest album End of the Middle and today, he is sharing the video for the album finale, More than Real, ahead of his UK tour starting next month, including his second London show, Green Man, Supersonic and Ovingham Goose Fair (dates below).
Talking about the More that Real, Dawson shared:
The whole album is really controlled up to that point, and then it becomes almost too sentimental. It’s so over the top in a way but I just wanted it to feel like a rainbow bursting through the stereo, whereas it’s all been quite monochrome up until that point. I was thinking a bit about the end of the Tarkovsky film Andrei Rublev, when the screen bursts into full colour after three hours of stark black-and-white, the effect of which is to make me feel something I can’t put into words”.
In his review of the album. Thomas Blake referred to the track as one of the album’s richest and strangest moments. He wrote: Vistas of synth open out, Dawson croons a technicolour ballad of parenthood and regret and hope, and midway through, his voice is replaced by that of his partner Sally Pilkington, who co-wrote the song. It’s unashamedly sentimental, and perhaps the most moving thing in all of Dawson’s catalogue.
“There’s no holding it back,” admits Dawson. “It’s quite glorious, hopeful – and terribly sad.”
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Richard Dawson Tour Dates
Wednesday 23rd April – Stoller Hall, Manchester – sold out
Thursday 24th April – Stoller Hall, Manchester – sold out
Friday 25th April – Brewery Arts, Kendal – sold out
Saturday 26th April – Kanteena, Lancaster
Sunday 27th April – City Varieties, Leeds – sold out
Tuesday 29th April – Clapham Grand, London
Wednesday 30th April – Clapham Grand, London w/ support from Good Sad Happy Bad
Thursday 1st May – The Gate, Cardiff
Friday 2nd May – Metronome, Nottingham – sold out
Saturday 17th May – The Glasshouse, Sage 2, Gateshead
Tuesday 20th May – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh – sold out
Wednesday 21st May – St Luke’s, Glasgow – sold out
Thursday 22nd May – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – sold out
Friday 23rd May – St George’s, Brighton
Saturday 24th May – Quarterhouse, Folkestone
Friday 6th June – Diamond Day @ Petit Bain, Paris
Saturday 7th June – Rush Festival, Rouen
Thursday 12th June – Cowley Club, Oxford
Friday 13th June – Brighten The Corners, Ipswich
Saturday 14th June – The Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
Sunday 15th June – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
Saturday 21st June – Ovingham Goose Fair
3rd-5th July – Visefestival, Egersund, Norway
Thursday 10th July – Monitor Festival, Turin
Saturday 12th July – Bao Festival, Brescia
Friday 25th July – Deer Shed Festival, North Yorkshire
Saturday 9th August – Loading Bay, Bradford
Saturday 16th August – Green Man, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park
Saturday 23rd August – Krankenhaus Festival, Ravenglass (UK),
Sunday 31st August – Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
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