As a massive Hawley fan, I was wondering if anyone thinks/knows if Richard is part of reunion in any way? There's a post on Richard's very own forum asking the question, which he seems to have ignored (which is unlike him).....
Depends on how they want to sound live I suppose. Judging by the size of the shows it must be big! So they could do with Richard to beef the sound up when Russell is on violin and/or Mark's playing keyboards.
I just think Russell has a very distinct style of playing guitar and violin. Once he left the band, to their credit, they rarely tried to re-create what he brought to the band. They went into different territory, musically. I don't hear Russell-type parts in a song like "Party Hard," and frankly I think adding such parts would be kinda superfluous.
Maybe he stays on stage, plays guitar, but it's lower in the mix for those songs.
That could be, those parts in those songs are quite generic. Just chords. He could play those and make the songs more full. Or maybe they are altering the songs to let him fit in. I never heard Help The Aged with him, is there a recording and is it different than the one on TIH?
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This is the sound of someone losing the plot, making out that they are okay when they are not. You're gonna like it, but not a lot.
He was never announced when he played with Pulp, or Jarvis solo. I can't see Russell WANTING to play on the songs he wasn't a part of, but if he does fair play. Didn't he essentially leave because he didn't like the way Jarvis was turning up with pretty much fully-formed songs? That would suggest to me that he doesn't actually like the TIH era songs. & they do need another guitar, particularly songs where Mark does extra piano etc. & Richard already knows the songs, was a fan from the begining*, & I think he'd be dissapointed not to play.
*I remember an interview where he spoke of his love for There Was
As we speculate... they are probably trying to work this out for themselves in a rehearsal room somewhere!
I suppose it depends on what they decide to include in the set. I'm not expecting much from WWL. Maybe 1 or 2 songs and if they just play a few from TIH leaving their set quite heavy on DC and H'n'H then it's not going to be any more trouble for Russell than it is for the reat of the band really.
Even then I can still imagine Richard H being there to help out with extra guitar here and there and think it possible his silence on the matter is a sign that it may be so
Probably shouldn't read much into such things, but Wikipedia currently lists Richard as a member of the band. I hope he's going to be there, tho' he'd probably have to come & go during the set. I can't imagine The Fear without him, & I love that song.
