I am surprised Divine Comedy are the support. However, the only time I saw Hawley solo, Paul Weller was the support.

ROCK N ROLL CIRCUS: RICHARD HAWLEY plus The Divine Comedy, The Coral + more to be announced

Thursday 29th August 2024 Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield

andy wrote:

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WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

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The Divine Comedy sold out 5 consecutive nights at Barbican (and Paris) revisiting their back catalogue in its entirety.  They have thirteen 40 singles and nine top 40 LPs.  They sold out London Palladium in hours.  And Neil Hannon has just done the Wonka sound track.

Richard Hawley has one single that scraped into the top 40 (at #40) and six top 40 LPs. And the music for a play.

As for Paul Weller, he has 16 top ten LPs (6 #1, 7 #2) and umpteen top 40 singles and thats before considering his work with The Style Council and The Jam.

Must be a Sheffield thing, cos it makes no sense to me

ArrGee wrote:

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andy wrote:

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WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

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The Divine Comedy sold out 5 consecutive nights at Barbican (and Paris) revisiting their back catalogue in its entirety.  They have thirteen 40 singles and nine top 40 LPs.  They sold out London Palladium in hours.  And Neil Hannon has just done the Wonka sound track.

Richard Hawley has one single that scraped into the top 40 (at #40) and six top 40 LPs. And the music for a play.

As for Paul Weller, he has 16 top ten LPs (6 #1, 7 #2) and umpteen top 40 singles and thats before considering his work with The Style Council and The Jam.

Must be a Sheffield thing, cos it makes no sense to me

 

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It must be yeah... I'm not specialist but from outside England, cities like Sheffield, Liverpool or Manchester seem to be a bit "different" from the rest of the country 

I'd say Richard is a local treasure, when DC attracts only people in capitals. Festivals know what they are doing though, they exactly where the fans are and that's how they plan their headliners. 

I'm still gutted i missed those DC shows. I had tickets for the first shows planned in 2020 that were cancelled due to covid and then when they did it again i was moving and could not go 

Eamonn wrote:

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Yeah, Hawley has local caché that is hard to quantify but strong enough that he's "the boss" of a local line-up.
And the success of the Standing At The Sky's Edge musical has given his profile another boost nationwide.

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Will be interesting to see the international impact of Neil Hannon's songs on the Wonka soundtrack on tour plans of The Divine Comedy in 2024. Been 20 years since the last dates in US.