Richard Dawson

Nothing Important

A disgustingly inward look at what is going on in Richard Dawson's mind.

There's always some new tragedy waiting to strike, just hiding round the corner. We see new ones each day on the news and in our safe homes, behind our screens we often forget the tangible hurt that is caused every single time. Nothing Important remembers. It remembers fathers and uncles and grandads. Brothers and mothers and those that are barely even with us. It sees old memories, once painted in beautiful hues, now ... read more

English experimentalist songwriter Richard Dawson is a brave man. Sure, it needs courage to take a pedal-driven acoustic guitar alone to accompany his oddball vocal compositions, and the fact that he is doing it for quite some time now only proves his downright bravery and artistic ambition. By stretching folk music's standards and taking genre's conventions to its limit, Dawson arrives at a pivotal point of his career with the polarizing Nothing Important. Although this may be called 'simple' ... read more