RICHARD DAWSON

23/04/2026

Sunderland gig as part of Sunniside Nights at the end of May - free, but ticketed!

07/04/2026

Pre-order 'for Gaza with love vol. 3' here:
https://forgazawithlove.bandcamp.com/

Feat. Jad Fair, Kathryn Joseph, Mary Hampton, Maxine Peake and many more

these albums have so far raised over £10,000 for the Gaza Educate Medics programme which has helped hundreds of medical students to graduate, despite the entirely dire situation

You'll find my contribution on vol. 1

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25/03/2026

A very special day/night at The Barbican this Sunday gone

Thanks to everyone who performed and attended

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Photos by Mark Allan

19/03/2026

Delight Is Right at the Barbican this Sunday is going to be one for the ages! I’m honoured to share the stage with some of my very favourite people and musicians.

Me and drummer-extrodinaire Andrew Cheetham up first, followed by TRISTWYCH Y FENYWOD, who made the album of 2024 - an unexpected and perfect marriage of mangled celtic harp, goth-pop, lo-fi clattering and boinging, deadly hooks and abject wailing.

Next, OXN - a badass nightmare-fuel folk supergroup, featuring members of LANKUM and PERCOLATOR, a bit like if Neu! played only pummelling funeral dirges.

Then we have Bradford’s HAMEED BROTHERS QAWWAL who’ve been performing their own dynamic take on this thousands-of-years-old artform for three decades - prepare to have your socks blown off.

We also have Heather Ferrier - Dazzling, unique, hypnotic and lush accordion reveries from one of the UK’s most exciting composer-instrumentalists.

The Last Path - majestic plodging shoegaze post-folk-rock-doom-pop from this lovely Newcastle trio who paint the most beautiful wide-canvas mucky grey hillscapes for the ear. No frills, all thrills.

Yotuns - this wonderful new(ish) duo of Christian Alderson (UNIT AMA) and Sally Pilkington (HEN OGLEDD / BULBILS) calmly navigates the razor’s edge between ambient drone and freaky improv through hypnotic fields of burbling synth, heartwrenching organ, righteous thumping and distant winsome sirening.

Finally, I’ll perform with my friends and favourite band CIRCLE - the life-enhancing experimental rock band from Finland often referred to as The Best Band In All Genres. I can’t wait to share this night of old and new songs with you.

18/03/2026

Bognor Regis! Do yourself a favour and catch Nev Clay's gig on sun 12th April

https://www.regisschoolofmusic.org.uk/events/nev-clay-supported-by-hoverdonkey

25/02/2026

Eliane Radigue's work means so much to me. I will never forget discovering 'Songs of Milarepa' in the sale section of the record shop where i'd just started working when i was 20-ish, took it home, rewired my brain and changed my life. That piece, along with 'Adnos', 'Trilogie de la Mort' and 'Lile Re-sonante', have been like friends to me over the last 25 years, travel companions, reading aids, parents and teachers. Thank you for the gift of your music, rest in peace.

Love to Mme Radigue's family and friends x

18/02/2026

I'm going to America.....

Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/252269-richard-dawson

29/01/2026

London folk! My good friends Sarah and Phil are playing in your city not once but twice, tomorrow and Saturday night. They will be v beautiful concerts, I recommend you GO !

Fri 30 at Ivy House, Nunhead

Sat 31 at Good Shepherd Studio, Leytonstone

Tickets here and here:

https://wegottickets.com/event/676842/

https://wegottickets.com/event/679922/

23/01/2026

Glad to be part of this benefit gig for Rosa at the Star and Shadow in March, great line-up!

Tickets here: https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/event/show-for-rosa-fundraiser-in-support-of-rosa-thomas-of-the-samphires,9028/

12/01/2026

London folks! My dear friends Sarah and Phil are playing a couple of shows on 30th jan and 31st jan.... it will be fantastic, please go!

30th-
https://wegottickets.com/event/676842

31st -
https://wegottickets.com/event/679922/

The songs Phil and Sarah sing are mainly traditional, learned from versions by folk legends like Shirley Collins, Bob Copper, Martin Carthy and Peggy Seeger. Their instrumental music (guitar, banjo and ukulele) also feels steeped in tradition. It is minimal, but exudes heart and passion. For more in...

08/12/2025

'IS THIS WHAT WE WANT?' is released today, 1000 copies on vinyl only.

The album is made entirely of recordings of empty studios. I contribute a track captured here at Doormouse Towers, and if you listen very carefully you might hear my four-legged feline friend Trouble make an appearance.

I never thought i would get to be on an album with Kate Bush and Paul McCartney, and Trouble certainly didn't either.

The project came about to fight proposed changes to UK copyright laws which would enable companies to effectively steal musicians work and harvest it for the purposes of evil A.I. slop-manufacture, among other ills.

All proceeds go to Help Musicians

Order here: https://1000artists.greedbag.com/