Richard Dawson (raucous experimental UK folk racket w/ intense picaresque realness vox)

cheers, i've 'pocketed' this for later reading.

Excellent interview, that.

yes, thanks

That's great.

Great interview. Fascinating that he works on the lyrics for so long. Apart from maybe Leonard Cohen, I don't think I've heard someone talk about working on a lyric to a single song in that way.

Fucking hell, that's an amazing interview.

just broke open a coconut and because of the cautionary tale on this album all I could think of was not to use a screwdriver under any circumstances

ftr I hit it with a big wrench and did not injure myself

Who's going to the Lexington tonight?

sold out by the time I found out - but hunting a spare ticket today & strongly tempted to go along and see if can get one there

Ruth Flecknell We did go on a ghost hunt at featherstone but the real spirit was definitely in that bottle and the trip to haltwhistle was in my car- a helicopter would have been much more well driven! It was definitely a weird experience for the adults as well as the youngsters we took. The genius is in the way you narrate the event and from the adult perspective looking back I can see how bizarre it was on so many levels for some of the children on the periphery of events. Good luck with your tour, I will catch your next one, the tickets were sold out this time before I woke up to how in vogue you are
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RICHARD DAWSON Mrs Flecknell - there will always be room for you at a gig, please remember this!
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Ruth Flecknell I will. Thanks richard. You deserve your success.
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the best person. 'Mrs Flecknell'!!!

didn't get a ticket for tonight :( and scarletmist is gone :(:(

thinking there's no great hardship sitting in a pub for a couple of hours and keeping an ear open for spares & returns.

maybe we might join you tbh

how big is the venue? slightly surprising he has such a following
city boys paying high three figures on the secondary no doubt

by 'we' i mean me and my fifteen friends, all of whom like to barge in front

the lexington is what i'd call a 'large pub venue'

i reckon I'll recognise you lj, so I'll say hello, shake hands before the fight to the death over the single spare.

Vile Stuff as city boy drinking anthem, I can see it

If I wasn't feeling like shit I would have joined you, but no doubt he'll be playing Cafe Oto at some point soon.

how big is the venue? slightly surprising he has such a following

I'm not at all surprised!

we are here (it's near my gf's work)...let the hunt begin

Awww man Mrs Flecknell

He was incredible last night. Did an 80 minute set, felt too short. I got a little overexcited and drank a whole bottle of red wine during the set and could barely walk afterwards, I blame him doing The Vile Stuff last, if he'd done it first I'd have felt forewarned.

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Had to leave the Lexington after four songs because I was getting besieged by texts about Steve Strange and had to go and sort out coverage. Unfortunately I was right at the front in the corner, which made getting out horrible for me and everyone I had to get past.

Didn't scrounge a ticket, but booked in for May at Bethnal Green WMC.

the qawali element of the vile stuff hadn't really struck me before, but hearing everyone clapping along to it and with dawsons voice wailing high above the rhythm, it was so damn obvious. Could have done without people tunelessly moaning along to poor old horse though, felt like dawson was altering his phrasing every time on that chorus just to try and shake them off his tail

The Lex gig was amazing. Poor Old Horse. What an upsetting song.

Cambridge gig tonight was so good. I've been ill for a few days and thought about not going but reading this thread convinced me - thanks guys! Highlights included stories about his cat, Poor Old Horse, when his guitar string broke halfway through The Vile Stuff and he ended up singing "In Dreams" instead with audience participation.

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seandalai i had no idea he was playing cambridge. damn!

Joseph an 84/100 in carpentry? ridiculous.

Saw him last night at Bethnal Green WMC. cannot remember being transfixed like that in an age. ghost of a tree…

woah just announced playing in bristol next month with eek and islam chipsy

fuck fuck fuck are tickets on sale?

yep, just £10
http://musicglue.com/qu-junktions/events/12-dec-15-islam-chipsy--eek--richard-dawson--kit-wilmans-fegradoe--dave-howell-dj-arnolfini/

damn bit all to hell I can't go.... aaaaargh!!!

http://thequietus.com/articles/22164-new-richard-dawson

so this is going to be the best album of the decade, then

i don't like the new song as much as the stuff on the previous album, but i do like it.

and he's playing bristol with a full band soon! whoop!

I just listened to it for the first time while walking through an abandoned rural village in blazing sunshine and now I am Woden himself

New sound is maybe a bit like if you took the old sound and added North Sea Radio Orchestra. It is deep imago.

his guitar style seems to have mellowed a tad though..

Maybe for this song, but those background sonics, especially during the climax, my god...if that's mellowing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaW-yD7DoA&

simpler times

It's too much. I'm extremely emotional

love this.

now for a rewatch of Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending.

http://thequietus.com/articles/22157-richard-dawson-peasant-interview-michael-hann

....aaaand the record was inspired by Hard To Be A God. Of COURSE :D

Wonderful interview - by one of ILX's own

been in my head all weekend

yep

this new song came up on Spotify, sounds a bit like peter hammill

Spent a big part of the weekend listening to Peasant. A real mind-boggler, album of the year contender for me.

I am excited & very ready for this

this is better than i had dared hope

at some point during 'prostitute' the distinct sensation of music being broken and remade settled over me