Ahead of the release of his new album, A Firmer Hand, which drops on August 16 via Fierce Panda. Hamish Hawk has shared new single “Men Like Wire.”
Hawk spent last month on tour across the UK and Europe supporting Villagers. With a run of headlining UK dates and in-store performances set for August, Hamish has been announced to support Travis first in the EU late August/September, before a UK run in December.

“In “Bakerloo, Unbecoming”, I wrote ‘essentially it comes down [again] to the limitless mysteries of other men’,” notes Hamish. “‘Men Like Wire’ is a deeper excavation of that idea. In short, it’s about men. Men I have and haven’t known, men I’ve seen, heard, loved and lost. Men I’ve been seated next to at weddings, bus stops and dinner parties, on trains, beds and park benches. They’re all in there, for better, for worse.”

Of his new album, Hamish says: “Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised: I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good. The album made so many demands, and I just gave myself over to it.

Once I’d given myself over to the idea, I thought, I have to stick to this. I can’t hide anything from it. I can’t clean it all up for consumption. It felt uncomfortable for me – and that’s exactly how it should feel. That’s a really strong position.”

Hamish Hawk
A Firmer Hand
Tracklisting

01. Juliet as Epithet
02. Machiavelli’s Room
03. Big Cat Tattoos
04. Nancy Dearest
05. Autobiography of Spy
06. You Can Film Me
07. Christopher St.
08. Men Like Wire
09. Questionable Hit
10. Disingenuous
11. Milk an Ending
12. The Hard Won

Hamish Hawk 2024 Tour Dates

07/21 – Reading, UK @ Englefield Estate (w/ Elbow & Villagers)
08/03 – Newport-on-Tay, UK @ Lughnasadh Festiva
08/04 – Barnsley, UK @ Underneath The Stars Festival
08/13 – Kingston-on-Thames, UK @ PRYZM
08/14 – Leeds, UK @ The Wardrobe
08/15 – Manchester, UK @ Night & Day
08/16 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
08/17 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East
08/18 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade
08/19 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade
08/20 – Oxford, UK @ The Jericho Tavern
08/21 – Portsmouth, UK @ The Brewery
08/22 – Brighton, UK @ Resident
08/23 – Kettering, UK @ Green Belt Festival
08/24 – Birkenhead, UK @ Future Now Weekender
08/26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso ^
08/28 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz ^
08/29 – Madrid, ES @ La Riviera ^
08/31 – Bern, CH @ Bierhübeli ^
09/01 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon ^
09/03 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall ^
09/04 – Berlin, DE @ Huxley’s Neue Welt ^
09/05 – Hamburg, DE @ The Docks ^
09/23 – Glasgow, UK @ Assai at St. Lukes
09/24 – Edinburgh, UK @ Assai at Liquid Rooms
09/25 – Aberdeen, UK @ Assai at Tunnels
10/19 – Cardiff, UK @ Swn Festival
12/05 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy ^
12/06 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall ^
12/08 – Liverpool, UK @ Olympia ^
12/09 – Wolverhampton, UK @ The Halls ^
12/10 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City ^
12/11 – Margate, UK @ Dreamland ^
12/13 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire ^
12/15 – Bristol, UK @ Beacon ^
12/17 – Eastbourne, UK @ Winter Gardens ^
12/18 – Sheffield, UK @ Octagon ^
12/19 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 City Hall ^
12/21 – Glasgow, UK @ Ovo Hydro ^

^ Travis

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