Richard Hawley: I'll never forget the Irish venues that backed me early on
Richard Hawley, photographed in Sheffield by Dean Chalkley.
“It’s just something you kind of take for granted. All of us get pretty depressed reading the news, especially of late, and it just occurred to me that the people in the city where I was born and raised just say ‘love’ to each other. It’s a very northern English thing. ‘Alright, love?’ Sheffield is a very friendly place.”
Richard Hawley, the Steel City Sinatra, a man who can knock out a heart-swelling ballad that wouldn’t shame Roy Orbison before breakfast, is talking about the title of his latest record, the sumptuous In This City They Call You Love.
