There is no other songwriter working at quite the imaginative level that Dawson is consistently reaching these days, and in Circle, he has found a band whose richness, variety and adaptability is the perfect complement to his unique vision. Henki is a strong late contender for album of the year.
Richard Dawson’s ‘2020’ is a sincere appeal to optimism, and above all else, sincerity is Dawson’s calling card. This is art shorn of artifice, pop against populism, and it just so happens to be one of the defining statements of our times.
On 11th October 2019, Richard Dawson is set to return with his sixth solo album 2020 which is already being called his “hardest-hitting and unflinchingly honest album to date” and “his poetic masterwork.” Pre-Order now.
Curated by Richard Dawson, Myth & Movement is an evening of musical, mythical mirth-making on Friday 20th September at The Old Coal Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Taken from the forthcoming Stick in the Wheel compilation album “FROM HERE: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2”, our Song of the Day comes from Newcastle’s folk maverick Richard Dawson. Watch the accompanying video.
Newcastle’s folk maverick Richard Dawson has shared a new music video for The Felon’s Song (our Song of the Day) as part of his recent project with artist Matt Stokes – This Liberty, a cinematic and audio installation inspired by the oldest purpose-built prison in England, Hexham Old Gaol.
Musician Richard Dawson and artist Matt Stokes have collaborated on This Liberty, a cinematic and audio installation inspired by the oldest purpose-built prison in England, Hexham Old Gaol.
What is perhaps most impressive about Peasant is the way it invents and develops – seemingly with ease – a world, an entirely new ancient landscape that has its own musical language. Richard Dawson has created a genuinely outstanding and astounding work of art.
Richard Dawson’s incredible new album, Peasant, is released today on Weird World / Domino. Watch his new video for ‘Weaver’ which is also our Song of the Day.
With the upcoming release of his brilliant new album Peasant on 2nd June, Richard Dawson has shared a new song and video for ‘Soldier’. “I wrote them around the time of the EU referendum, so that’s in there, and it was also a period when I’d been on the road a lot and was missing my darling…”
Newcastle’s experimental folk maverick Richard Dawson announces new album Peasant and shares video for Ogre. The album “will grab newcomers to Dawson’s work by the scruff of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of life-long allegiance.”
