Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

Stumbling from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swathes of noise-colour, Richard Dawson hints at a time before today’s over-preened and manufactured music world. 

Rising up from the bed of the River Tyne, a voice that crumbles and soars, steeped in age old balladry and finely-chiselled observations of the mundane.

Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music hall tunesmithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback.

His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown.

New album ‘Nothing Important’, released by Weird World, hypnotises from its tender dark whispers to its wild screams, an unparalleled voice in today’s over-preened and manufactured music world.