RICHARD HAWLEY - 20th Anniversary Editions of 'Coles Corner' + Special Live Dates including Boston
RICHARD HAWLEY
20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS OF
HIS HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND ACCLAIMED
BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM
‘COLES CORNER’
TO BE RELEASED ON 4th JULY
AVAILABLE ON HALF-SPEED MASTER BLACK VINYL HOUSED IN A GATEFOLD SLEEVE, 2CD DELUXE EDITION FEATURING B-SIDES AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ACOUSTIC TRACKS, AND LIMITED EDITION BUNDLES
To celebrate the anniversary Richard and his band will be joined by a string section at a series of special shows where, for the first time, they will perform the album in full
Pre-order the album or bundles here for presale access to the special 2025 anniversary shows: http://lnk.to/RichardHawleyCC20
"Coles Corner is a glorious melange of love, loss, regret, homesickness and romance." - MOJO
Following the universal acclaim of his Top 5 2024 album, ‘In This City They Call You Love’, and the success of the award-winning musical featuring his songs, ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’, today Parlophone/Rhino announce details of special anniversary editions of Richard Hawley’s revered 2005 album ‘Coles Corner’.
‘Coles Corner’ was Hawley’s third studio album and his first for Mute Records. After five years of garnering praise for his songwriting talents and heart-melting baritone voice, and steadily building a solid fanbase through his outstanding live performances, hard work paid off on an album regarded by many as his best.
Recorded in Sheffield’s Yellow Arch Studios, and co-produced with his long-time bassist Colin Elliot, and Mike Timm, ‘Coles Corner’ featured fellow musicians Shez Sheridan (guitars), Jon Trier (keyboards), Jonny Wood (upright bass) and Andy Cook (drums). They conjured up an exquisite album inspired by Hawley’s love of vintage ‘40s and ‘50s sounds, chamber pop, country, blues, and rock ‘n roll, on a set of intimate love songs full of nostalgia, regret, sadness and a bittersweet atmosphere, on a collection that would cement Hawley’s abiding love and passion for his hometown of Sheffield.
Nowhere is this exemplified more than on the album’s title track. "Coles Corner", named after a former department store in the city which was a popular meeting place for couples, immortalises the legendary landmark on a song that swells the heart with its sweeping strings and swooning chorus, on a universal paean to the loneliness of the city at night.
Other beautiful balladry exists in songs such as "Born Under a Bad Sign” and "Darlin’ Wait For Me", while Hawley’s love of country and early rock’n’roll can be heard in "Hotel Room", "I Sleep Alone", and the driving "Just Like The Rain".
The album’s most epic song and, to this day, a fan favourite live, is "The Ocean". Written on a family holiday in the shadow of Cornwall’s Minack Theatre (with a video later filmed at the same location), the song features one of Richard’s best vocals; all yearning and urgency as it builds to its visceral crescendo.
‘Coles Corner’ is a cornerstone in the catalogue of one of the most creative and outstanding UK singer songwriters of the past two decades.
The ‘Coles Corner’ 20th anniversary formats:
Black Vinyl Half-Speed Master housed in a gatefold sleeve
2CD Deluxe Edition
Limited Edition Bundles
Pre-order link: http://lnk.to/RichardHawleyCC20
Tracklisting (Vinyl):
Coles Corner
Just Like The Rain
Hotel Room
Darlin’ Wait For Me
The Ocean
Born Under a Bad Sign
I Sleep Alone
Tonight
(Wading Through) The Waters of My Time
Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
Last Orders
CD2: Single Versions, B-Sides and Acoustic Versions
The Ocean (Single Version)
Just Like The Rain (Single Version)
Born Under a Bad Sign (Single Version)
Hotel Room (Single Version)
Long Black Veil
Room With a View
I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin
Dark Road
Kelham Island
Some Candy Talking
Young and Beautiful
I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
Can You Hear The Rain Love?
Coles Corner (Acoustic Version)
Hotel Room (Acoustic Version)
Darlin’ Wait For Me (Acoustic Version)
I Sleep Alone (Live at Sheffield City Hall)
A Bird Never Flew On One Wing
To further celebrate the 20th anniversary, Hawley and his band will be joined by a string section at a series of special shows where, for the first time, they will perform the album in full, beginning with a show on 5 July at the Museum Gardens in York.
05.07 YORK Museum Gardens (on sale now)
The following shows will go on general sale Friday 14th March:
05.09 BOSTON Gliderdrome
06.09 PORTMEIRION Village
12.09 BLACKPOOL Tower Ballroom
03.10 MARGATE Dreamland
04.10 WORTHING Assembly Hall
10.10 WESTON-SUPER-MARE Grand Pier
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
In the two decades that have elapsed since Richard Hawley abandoned band life full-time, first with The Longpigs and then as Pulp’s guitarist – the 57-year-old songwriter has forged one of the most singular and diverse careers in modern music.
As well as releasing a string of solo albums that have managed the rare feat of being both critically acclaimed and commercially successful, Hawley has worked with a host of impressive collaborators – friends such as Arctic Monkeys, Manic Street Preachers, Elbow and Paul Weller, alongside personal heroes that include U.S. guitarist Duane Eddy (his 2011 album, ‘Road Trip’, was co-produced by Richard), Shirley Bassey (for whom he wrote the smouldering ballad, “After The Rain“, in 2009), Nancy Sinatra, the late Lisa Marie Presley and British folk royalty Martin Carthy and the late Norma Waterson (he was an integral part of 2013’s Bright Phoebus Revisited tour). There are also bona fide pop stars such as Robbie Williams, All Saints and Texas, all of whom Hawley has played with in differing capacities down the years. His song “Tonight The Streets Are Ours” was featured in The Simpsons and Exit Through The Gift Shop: A Banksy Film.
In recent times his songs have appeared in television dramas Peaky Blinders, The Full Monty and Hijack, as well as the hugely acclaimed and award-winning musical named after his 2012 album, ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’. “Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)”, co-written with Jarvis Cocker and Wes Anderson for Anderson's film, Asteroid City, was shortlisted for 'Best Original Song' at the Oscars®.
The successful award-winning ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’musical features 20 Richard Hawley songs and won Best New Musical and handed Hawley Best Original Score at the 2023 Olivier Awards. Following its sell-out runs at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre and London’s National Theatre, last year it celebrated a successful six-month run at London’s West End Gillian Lynne Theatre.
In 2024 Richard released his ninth studio album, ‘In This City They Call You Love’. It was a UK Top 5 album and lauded throughout the British press as one of his best to date, with The Times calling it “his best since Coles Corner”.
The accompanying tour saw Richard and his band play to sell-out crowds throughout the UK, including to well over 5,000 people at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, and 10,000 people at the Don Valley Bowl near Sheffield.
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