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Richard Hawley The LCR, UEA, Sunday, 16 th June 2024 My response to Mr Hawley’s latest album, In This City They Call You ‘Love’ was C omme si, comme ça . The guitar work, the love Hawley has for his early guitar heroes in his tribute songs to Sheffield and the respective playing styles and indeed singing, is interesting. It is a nice album, but doesn’t pull up any trees for me, so I was wondering how the tour might be going, ticket sales-wise. I walked into the SU building at Norwich’s campus university and was over-whelmed by the size and maturity (age-wise) of the crowd. Not only was the venue rammed with people who looked serious-minded, but the floor space was filled with rows of seats, with each one taken, leaving the rest of us to cram around the edges of the hall, with due regard for height and width of our fellow punters. Despite taking nearly an hour to set up, tune all the guitars and for the band to appear once ...