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After finding success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990s, he later joined the band Pulp, led by his friend Jarvis Cocker before going on to release a series of albums as a solo artist. In an era where next big things, scenes and in-sounds flash by, when even our favourite tunes are listened to on shuffle, we need music that will stick around for a while, albums that we can go on listening to in one sitting until they wear out. We need something real. Something timeless. Something proper. This is Richard Hawley, ‘the Elvis of the North’, the Sheffield-based singer-songwriter ‘robbed’ of the Mercury Music Prize according to its winner, The Arctic Monkeys. Great music doesn’t need hype, it makes its own friends. And Richard Hawley has found plenty with the fabulous albums, Coles Corner, Lady’s Bridge and Truelove’s Gutter. Buxton Opera House is excited to be welcoming back one of the great British musical talents of recent years.

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Richard Hawley