Hamish Hawk – ”A Firmer Hand” Album Launch Live Show

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Join us at the Staggeringly Good Brewery, as we celebrate Hamish Hawk’s new album ”A Firmer Hand” with a special live performance. 

Wednesday 21st August 2024.

Doors 7:00pm – On Stage TBC

Age Limit 16+

This show will be held at Staggeringly Good Brewery, Southsea – Portsmouth (See Map HERE )

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ALL TICKETS WILL BE ELECTRONIC. Please select ‘Click & Collect’ at the checkout or you will be charged for postage.

Ticket Bundles will be an album purchase on any format, one per person per entry

or

General Admission strictly one per person per entry

All formats will be collected at the shop. Your order confirmation will act as your ticket.

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Ticket Bundle Options

£30.99- Indies Exclusive Standard Weight, White LP & Entry To The Outstore Show

£30.99 – Standard Weight, Black LP & Entry To The Outstore Show

£16.99 – CD & Entry To The Outstore Show

£12.00 – General Admission (Strictly One Ticket Per Person)

This is an ‘outstore show’, designed to encourage purchasing physical copies of the new album.

Each copy you purchase, will be ‘chart’ scanned by us in the shop and will help the artist reach a high chart position. 

This has many benefits for the band, and means that as a fan – you helped contribute to that success!

As a record shop, we want to encourage the culture of buying physical music and also means we can host more of these amazing intimate shows!

More about the new album below….

“Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out.” In a café just around the corner from his Edinburgh flat, Hamish Hawk is contemplating his extraordinary new record, A Firmer Hand. “The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised: I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good. The album made so many demands, and I just gave myself over to it.”

At this stage, where only a handful of close associates have heard the finished album, Hawk is still unsure of what the reaction might be from fans, critics, even family. He jokes that A Firmer Hand is the first of his records that his parents might not enjoy. “But the fact that it makes me nervous tells me it was the right thing to do.”

It takes only a couple of listens to be sure that it was a risk worth taking. And just a couple more to determine that A Firmer Hand is the best and boldest record Hamish Hawk has delivered to date. “It’s a bit of a coming of age record,” he says. And a record for the ages.

TRACKLIST:

1. Juliet as Epithet
2. Machiavelli’s Room
3. Big Cat Tattoos
4. Nancy Dearest
5. Autobiography of Spy
6. You Can Film Me
7. Christopher St.
8. Men Like Wire
9. Questionable Hit
10. Disingenuous
11. Milk an Ending
12. The Hard Won