Richard Hawley interview: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (The Telegraph)

Richard Hawley’s Standing at the Sky’s Edge is a bitter-sweet ode to his post-industrial hometown, with painful echoes of his family’s past

Richard Hawley, the Sheffield-born singer-songwriter, is reflecting on the “strange, upside-down” nature of the modern music business. With streaming platforms now the norm and public attention hard to leverage, it’s a far cry from the Britpop fray he entered in the mid-1990s with a lesser-known band called Longpigs. He recalls how Shakespears Sister singer Siobhan Fahey once told him that: “Back in the day with Bananarama, they’d do four interviews, two TV appearances and sell millions of records. Now you do millions of TV appearances and interviews and sell two records.”