Richard Hawley, (born Sheffield, England) is a critically acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley ab initio witnessed profits as a member of Britpop band The Longpigs in the 1990s. After that plan began to implode into the drug filled torpor after an extensive tour of America brought the band to the brink of extinction in 1997, Hawley was asked to join Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. "They saved my life," Hawley would late recall, "I was going mental with drink and drugs." A subsequent globe tour around trend lines of Chemicals's Album (music)album This Is Hardcore left Hawley emotionally and physically drained in his link to to his page city. When you took this instance, he would potentially assume going a music industry altogether.

It was an encounter at Hawley's Sheffield at home that would lead a longtime collaborator out of the shadows. Impressed by the residence demo of his songs, both Resins's Jarvis Cocker & Steve Mackey urged Hawley to head into a studio and begin functiin on his number 1 solo release. 2000's eponymous mini album would encourage Hawley to return to the studio oncemore. Around 2001 Late Night Final, known as when a cry of trafficker selling a Sheffield Star evening newspaper on a streets of the city, would be freed to caring reviews from either the press, if unspectacular sales. 2 years late Hawley would release Lowedges, an additional Sheffield reference, this time to the curiously known as suburb of the city that got and then entranced the immature Hawley whenever he had seen it on the destination board of a bus. NME called Lowedges the "first great album of 2003" & it would top an prevent of season poll held by Virgin Radio. Critical praise was far flung, leading numerous large list like Coldplay, Radiohead and R.E.M. to enthuse about Hawley's work.

Fallowing allowing Setanta Records around 2004 Hawley would eventually sign to Mute Records, a section of the gargantuan EMI. Legal wrangle would delay Coles Corner, Hawley's quaternary release, until September 2005. Again Hawley mines a theme of his darling front yard city, this instance referencing a location in which courting lovers would meet.

Hawley's act as a session musician & producer remains around high require. Fallowing contributing towards her eponymic 2004 release, Hawley would besides trend lines Nancy Sinatra on her European tour in 2005. Praise from R.E.M.'s Mike Mills would lead to him being approached to support the Georgia group on several concert dates that year. It used to be that, Hawley hwhen likewise worked sustaining creative person when diverse as New York's A Girl Called Eddy, All Saints, for Nellee Hooper's soundtrack for Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet and with Jarvis Cocker's Relaxed Muscle project.

Aside from either his solo & session function, Hawley now and again tours by owning The Feral Cats, a side plan that enables him to choose his interest inside rockabilly music.

Fiercly pleased his working class upbringing, Hawley recently described himself as "jurassic labour" within response to a wonder all about the New Labour project. He sleep in Sheffield, by using his married woman & tykes.