Newcastle-born Richard Dawson, who has been described as “Britain’s best, most humane songwriter” by The Guardian, released his eighth album, End Of The Middle, this year, and the storytelling here homes in on the family unit: “I wanted this record to be small-scale and very domestic,” he says of the concept.
Songwriting itself was something he worked on from a young age: “I wasn’t good at it, but it was a natural thing to want to do and I perhaps took the creative impulse for granted because I always had it.
