Hamish Hawk

When: 10th February 2024
Location: Barrowland

Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh singer/songwriter whose intense lyrical compositions blend aspects of indie rock and chamber pop, all laced with a bone-dry sense of humor. Coming to Glasgow’s Barrowland on 10th February 2024.

With the release of ‘Heavy Elevator’ in September 2021, Edinburgh-based Hawk established himself as a writer of heartfelt, headstrong, unashamedly literate songs to stimulate both pulse and psyche. Heavy Elevator offered words to savour and tunes to relish. The songs were filmic and romantic, blending wit, wisdom, resignation and beauty with a kind of sceptical joie de vivre, delivered in a rich baritone that has drawn comparisons to everyone from Jarvis Cocker to Scott Walker. A singer of style and guile peddling accessible intelligence: what’s not to love?

‘Heavy Elevator’ established a powerful artistic imprimatur which nonetheless felt neither defining nor confining. While the album has been justly lauded, Hawk’s next steps moved the story considerably further forward. 2023’s ‘Angel Numbers’ meets growing expectations head on, with panache and aplomb.