Rich(ard) Dawson - Live in London! April 29th & 30th

Name: Rich(ard) Dawson - Live in London! April 29th & 30th
Start: 2025-04-29T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-30T23:00:00+01:00
Location: The Clapham Grand

Schedule

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 30 Apr, 2025 at 11:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Clapham Grand | London, EN

Upset The Rhythm presents…
RICH(ARD) DAWSON
Tuesday 29 April & Wednesday 30 April
The Clapham Grand, 21 -25 St John's Hill, Clapham, London, SW11 1TT
7pm | £30 |
April 29th Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/richard-dawson
April 30th Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed6edd247a05
(New tickets for April 30th on sale on Friday 24 January at 10am)

RICH(ARD) DAWSON has drawn so many long drafts from the whirlpools of Elemental North Eastern Archetypes, he may now be one himself. Fearless in his research and willingness to follow his inspiration, Dawson has created an impressive catalogue of music and storytelling steeped in both ancient myths and contemporary dread. A fog of sickness, trauma and mute inevitability inhabits his records and is often expressed in the havoc with which Dawson’s hands produce sounds from his long-suffering guitar, an instrument as bruised, individual and indefatigable as its owner.
Dawson’s forthcoming new album ‘End of the Middle’ (out Feb 14th through Weird World) is intricate, evocative, stripped-back, tactile and almost has the transportive ability to put you in the places and scenarios it describes. The album focuses around a family unit. “It zooms in quite close-up to try and explore a typical middle class English family home,” Dawson says. “We're listening to the stories of people from three or four generations of perhaps the same family. But really, it’s about how we break certain cycles. I think the family is a useful metaphor to examine how things are passed on generationally.”

The title of the new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Decide for yourself at this concert in the intimate, beautiful setting of The Clapham Grand, tickets are going to fly!

https://richarddawson.net/