Hamish Hawk - Intriguer/Tenderness : Album + Ticket Bundle (Intimate Launch Show at The Wardrobe Leeds) *Pre-order

Tickets go On sale Monday 28th September 2026 at 6pm

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Hamish Hawk - Intriguer/Tenderness - Released Friday 2nd April 2027

CD Album + 1 Ticket - £18.99 - Limit 4 per person
Vinyl LP + 1 Ticket - £35.99 - Limit 2 per person
1x Ticket only - £15.50 - Limit 1 per person max

We urge you to consider buying an album bundle rather than ticket only as they only cost £3.49 more to get a CD bundle, PLUS this way you are helping the artist and the more albums we sell the more of these exciting Album Launch shows we are able to put on in the future.

PLEASE NOTE: CD Album + Ticket Bundles are limited to 4 per person. Vinyl LP + Ticket Bundles are limited to 2 per person. Ticket only is limited to 1 per person

To celebrate the release of his new album, Hamish Hawk will come to Leeds for a Intimate Album Launch Show at The Wardrobe in Leeds on Thursday 8th April 2027 (Doors 7pm - the show will start soon after so please be prompt).

We have set up special bundles (in the drop down box above) for this release where fans of the artist can purchase an album and get a ticket for this exclusive show.

There is a limited capacity for this event so we would expect all the album and ticket bundles to sell out very quickly. 

This is a 14+ ages event

Please note there is only limited space left for disabled / accessible viewing at the venue so please email using the address below to book in as soon as you have ordered a ticket / Bundle - bar@thewardrobe.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE PRINTING TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT AND THEY WILL BE NEEDED FOR ENTRY TO THE VENUE . ORDER EMAILS ETC WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT.

Shipping is the only option for this event, TICKETS and ALBUMS will ship together on the album's release date of Friday 2nd April 2027.

There is NO collect at venue or Collect in store option all ticket and stock will be shipped out.

Album is also available on all formats without a ticket here

Since he first saw himself reflected as Intriguer and Tenderness in the mirror of his songs, Hawk has come to a deeper understanding of what they mean to him. “Both have been exacerbated by my life performing under my own name,” he says. “There's the person on stage and the person off stage; the domestic person and this other larger than life, fired up version of myself.” Tenderness, he feels “in some ways in the face of the performance is kind of diminished by that. The relationship involves lies and deceit and notions of consent and pain and discomfort, triumph and failure, guilt and shame.”

The harsh dialogue between the Intriguer and Tenderness aspects to Hawk’s personality makes this just as violent and intense an album as its predecessor. Where on "A Firmer Hand" he almost revelled in the oozing and confident sexuality, "Intriguer / Tenderness" has ended up feeling a lot more excoriating in its self-reflection. “It's actually quite scary to see what I say to myself,” Hawk admits, adding that the process of committing those words to lyricism can feel like an act of self-cruelty. “The stories you say in your own head to yourself are shocking if your inner monologue is really as mean-spirited as mine is. With a song like "Tuscan Kind", I just can't believe the criticisms I've levelled against myself and insults I've hurled in my own direction. When you're alone in a sealed room that is your own mind, it's crazy what comes out of the dark to sting you, the weapons you can invent to beat yourself with.” This is reflected in the air of malevolent threat throughout the record, especially on the simple drum machine pulse of "Mother Of Vinegar", with lyrics about being in a south-facing psychiatric ward – a reference to Hawk’s living room in which he wrote it in a frantic session at a really difficult time. “It was in the deepest part of the worst of it,” Hawk says, “If you imagine it like a big crater, and it's just right at the bottom.” Throughout the album there are references to snakes and infants, the former a manifestation of the Intriguer side to Hawk’s character, the latter the tenderness. Much as the snake in the garden of Eden in the Bible story of Genesis corrupted Eve, so the dynamic on the album highlights some of the ambiguity of Haw’s relationship with himself.

In the past, some have been confused by Hawk’s sharp lyricism, broad vocabulary and cultural references, believing it to be an arch affectation. The violence of language on "Intriguer/Tenderness", along with its predecessor, ought to put this misapprehension to bed – there can be little crueller yet honest as an inner critic that can write as well as the Neil Tennant-approved Hamish Hawk. These are deeply human records, of cold sweat, hot saliva, lust and fear. Hawk admits that he dislikes being described as a “literary” songwriter, feeling that label obscures the directness of his songs. His lyrical palette comes from a lifelong fascination with language. He’s less interested in the musicians who might have influenced him than how his inspiration also comes from books, things he hears kids say, or watching "Coronation Street", eavesdropping, and especially on this record, the vivid imagery from his dreams. Hawk says that far from being wilfully verbose, this rich palette is exploited purely for clarity, even if, as is the case here, his lyrics are an act of violence against himself.  Indeed, it’s Hawk’s distinctive use of – and most importantly pleasure in – language that makes intriguer and tenderness (as characters, as songs, as an album), really come to life. “I really shy away from lyrics that aren't immediate,” he says. “I don't mind a complexity of ideas, grappling with strange themes, getting down there, and getting gnarly.”  

Gnarly just about sums it up. “Every so often I write a song and I feel a bit confronted by it,” Hawk says. “I even worry about sending it to the band, because sometimes you just feel a bit safer withholding. But then I've pretty much never allowed myself to do that.” During the writing process of the record, Hawk’s guitarist Andrew Pearson picked up on how “nobody seems to be getting on in this album”. He considers the strange revelation of a record that sets himself against himself, and that he thought was different from its predecessor in having higher peaks of lightness, even if the troughs were darker. Now with the release looming, he wonders if it isn’t actually even more intensely heavy than "A Firmer Hand". And if so, what next? “That’s the question – you've got all that out there, but surely the next thing you say has got to be a kinder thing, you know?” he says, “I don't know when the light comes.”

TRACKLIST:

Side A

Isn't

Intriguer/Tenderness

Ice-like Empty

Ego in Lotus

Half of Paris 

Side B

Thirsty Girl

Mother of Vinegar

Oyster

The Tuscan Kind

Ashes, and Then Some