Richard Hawley – review

Forum, LondonIt's hard to be a guitar hero with a broken leg. Richard Hawley's broodingly heavy sixth album, Standing at the Sky's Edge, is a dramatic departure from his usual retro melancholy, and surely not a record he would have imagined having to perform in a wheelchair until a slippery marble staircase in Barcelona intervened. "I feel like Davros from Doctor Who," he says ruefully.The painkillers limit his traditional between-song anecdotes, which have often been as entertaining as his mus...

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