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Richard Dawson

November 2022

  • Richard Dawson press photo

    Richard Dawson on his post-apocalyptic new album: ‘I would have to booby-trap a cave to survive’

  • Richard Dawson standing in long grass

    Richard Dawson: The Ruby Cord review – an excellent album trying to get out

August 2022

  • ‘It started as a party for us and our friends’ … Field Maneuevers festival in 2019.

    ‘A gambler’s wet dream and an accountant’s worst nightmare!’: the huge allure of the micro-festival

    Amid a bloated festival market, the founders of the UK’s tiniest weekenders explain why they are keeping things intimate and defiantly non-commercial

November 2021

  • Circle with Richard Dawson, third from right.

    Richard Dawson and Circle: Henki review – a botanical rock classic

    A sprawling epic written from the perspective of a seed and a lament for an ancient tree are highlights on this inspired collaboration

August 2020

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    10 of the best ...
    From Charli XCX to Taylor Swift: 10 of the best albums made in lockdown

    Anxiety, escapism and noise complaints from neighbours all feature in the work musicians have created while house-bound

December 2019

  • Albums of 2019. No 1 - Lana Del Rey

    Best music of 2019
    The 50 best albums of 2019: the full list

  • Yeehaw! Lil Nas X.

    Best music of 2019
    The 20 best songs of 2019

November 2019

  • Richard Dawson performing live at the Moth Club in East London in support of his new album "2020".

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Richard Dawson review – dispatches from the breadline

    A tender but challenging tour of broken Britain

October 2019

  • Richard Dawson photographed in Newcastle by Antonio Olmos for the Observer.

    Richard Dawson: anthems for a blighted nation

  • Gives voice to a whole host of British characters … Richard Dawson.

    Richard Dawson: 2020 review – Britain's best, most humane songwriter

December 2017

  • ‘A stentorian bellow’: Richard Dawson at the Islington Assembly Hall.

    Richard Dawson review – a herald angel sings

  • Excavating the past ... Richard Dawson performing live.

    Best music of 2017
    The best albums of 2017, No 10: Richard Dawson – Peasant

June 2017

  • Richard Dawson performing at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham in June

    Time travel, BHS and urine – the strange world of folk singer Richard Dawson

    The Newcastle singer meticulously researches the worlds he conjures up in song – and that can mean details of local history or the minutiae of medieval dyeing processes, he explains
  • Richard Dawson

    Richard Dawson review – modern folk tales with strange, thrilling radiance

    Stolen horses, miscreants and self-deprecation all featured in an intimate solo show that let the Newcastle singer’s nuanced voice and lyrics stand out
  • Richard Dawson - press publicity portrait

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Richard Dawson: Peasant review – muddy glorious

    A concept album set in medieval north Britain shouldn’t work. But Dawson’s way with lyrics and melodies makes it unique and often breathtaking

February 2016

  • Richard Dawson

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Richard Dawson on the naked voice – the Guardian Radio Hour podcast

  • Richard Dawson with Kate Hutchinson at the NTS Studio

    The Guardian radio hour
    The Guardian Radio Hour with Richard Dawson - listen to the show

September 2015

  • Musician Richard Dawson

    Richard Dawson review – leaps from gravelly lows to choir-boy highs

    This gifted performer delivers witty asides, endearingly ramshackle folk songs and more laughter than a standup show

December 2014

  • Richard Dawson singer songwriter

    One to watch
    Richard Dawson: Geordie songwriter who found a voice in his local library

    Singer says his eye condition means he sees things differently – and, when you hear his music, what he’s saying makes sense

November 2014

  • Richard Dawson

    Richard Dawson: Nothing Important review – remarkably original folk

    The songwriter takes a deconstructivist approach to English folk with a record that unsettles and subverts, writes Michael Hann
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