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On Tuesday night at TT the Bear's I finally got to see one of my recent favorite artists, Richard Hawley. I discovered him around the time of his second album, Late Night Final and have been hooked ever since. I've never listened to his first band, The Longpigs, but my first experience with him was watching Pulp's Finsbury Park video and wondering who this tosser who thinks that he can just jump up on stage with the band and play some lead guitar. I was the middle of my love affair with Pulp's recently-departed guitarist Russell Senior, so I wasn't about to let someone else just march in and take over. I'm glad that I was able to get over that and come around to him. In the middle of the show this week it struck me that I actually had seen him once before but had never realized it. Pulp played a much-too-short three song set at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, D.C, and he must've been playing with them at that point.
Back to this week...his band came out looking quite sharp, most of them dressed in suits with well-teased hair. He crooned, rocked, and rockabillied through a mix of songs from all four of his albums, stopping in between each one to tell some stories or just get us more into the show. He wasn't above telling us a dirty joke or talking about getting completely pissed (in the English sense) with Jarvis before his first appearance with Pulp on Jools Holland's show. I think I actually have a copy of that performance on a videotape somewhere. Unfortunately, the band didn't play "Baby, You're My Light," which was the runner-up in our wedding-first-dance competition earlier this year. Still, every other song was great; I hope he doesn't wait too long before coming back again.
Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera, otherwise I would've gotten some excellent shots since we were right in front of him. The iPhone camera pics turned out better than I expected, but I'm still kicking myself. I got a setlist, so I'll put a picture of that up at Flickr this weekend.
Chromewaves has a good write-up of the Toronto show, and the Boston Globe has a short interview with him from earlier this week.
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