Richard Dawson | Melting Vinyl

Richard Dawson

Friday 21st January 2022

+ Pyx

At Folkestone Quarterhouse

Doors 7:00 pm

Price £16 + booking fee / £20 on the door

We are deliriously excited to share that our show with the wonderfully weird Richard Dawson at the Folkestone Quarterhouse is now rescheduled to 21st of January 2022.

Please keep an eye on the Facebook event for the most up to date information:

https://www.facebook.com/events/369697211360724

Richard Dawson, the black-humoured bard of Newcastle, returns after a rescheduled 202o show on the back of his 2021 release, his seventh solo album Henki (with Circle) , his first since the critically acclaimed, Peasant and 2020.

All tickets already purchased will remain valid for the rescheduled date, and all other event details will remain the same.

On 2020, Dawson introduces us to grand themes through small lives. His are portraits of human beings struggling with recognisable (and dare we say it, relatable) concerns, conflicts and desires, each reminding us that tragedy and gallows humour are not mutually exclusive, and that the magical can sit next to the mundane. Lyrically it is by far Dawson’s hardest-hitting and unflinchingly honest album to date. It is his poetic masterwork.

Within, we find disgruntled civil servants dreaming of better days, anxiety-addled joggers listlessly searching Zoopla for houses they cannot afford in their spare time, amateur footballers who think they’re Lionel Messi and beleaguered pub landlords battling rising floodwaters.

Here is life, in all its strange and wonderful ways.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Uncut – 9/10

“2020 is, without a doubt, Dawson’s most direct album to date. Entirely self-played but ambitious in its palette and bold in its arrangements, it finds him adding new lucidity and sense of melody to his knotty and raucous take on folk music. It’s hard not to conclude that 2020 is the record we need right now: a state-f-a-nation address for a nation in a bit of a state.”

The Wire

“Thank the stars. Huge parts of the UK may be on mission Self Destruct right now, dragging pockets of society unwillingly into meltdown with them, but at least Richard Dawson is chronicling it all.”

The Guardian, 5*

“2020 is a reminder of the need for basic decency in a country that is forgetting it, voiced by the most brilliant and humane songwriter working here today.”

The Quietus

“This is a magnificent retention of quality and development from pop music’s Francis Bacon. It’s impossible not to find your own neurosis within the weave of these songs. It’s horrifying and gorgeous, and you’ll likely not hear a more singular or, indeed, better record this year.”

Sunday Times Culture

“This is unlike any album you’ve ever heard: an utterly uncompromising portrait of low-trust, high-anxiety, Brexit-bashed Britain. Dawson nails modern misery.”

Financial Times

“Dawson delivers his verses with unusually stylised singsong phrasings, while the twisty music has more of a post-punk feel than his other albums. It is folk music in the loosest sense: vivid portraits of people in the here and now.”

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PYX

PYX is a Kent based alt-rock collective led by singer-songwriter Wesley Triffitt. Ranging from the intimate and exposed to the cinematic, Pyx’s dynamic sound has drawn comparisons to Radiohead, Elliott Smith and Arcade Fire.

“One of the freshest on the circuit as selected by BBC Introducing” – BBC Radio 6, Tom Robinson

“Serene and tinged with psychedelic goodness as well as summery melodies” – Mix It All Up

“The Movies is a lyrical masterpiece… Wesley is a natural songwriting talent with a natural instinct for production” – IndieMusic.co

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