Valentine is taken from Richard Hawley's top ten album Lady's Bridge.

Valentine is released on CD, 7" and download. The 7" is backed by Richard's version of Lonesome Town by Ricky Nelson, the CD features a new Hawley instrumental, Sheffield on Sea, an acoustic version of Roll River Roll and the video for Valentine, directed by Shane Meadows. Available exclusively on iTunes will be an acoustic version of Valentine.

Richard on Valentine:
The chorus is one of the oldest pieces of music I’ve ever written. I could never get anything else to go with it. But I picked up the guitar in the studio and started singing the chorus and then I made up the verse on the spot. I don't like being over prepared, I like to keep that Sun Studio vibe where the red light comes on and it's like, "C'mon son, what have you got?" It's quite tragic that song, it's like a kind of Yorkshire Shakespearian tragedy. It's about somebody who's made themselves really hard after heartbreak. I've been through that. I was there once in my early twenties before I met our lass, you make yourself into something you're not. The song is about a tender moment where you face the truth."

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It's a Raymond Chandler Evening
At the end of someone's day
And I'm standing in my pocket
And I'm slowly turning grey

I remember what I told you
But I can't remember why
And the yellow leaves are falling
In a spiral from the sky

There's a body on the railings
That I can't identify
And I'd like to reassure you but
I'm not that kind of guy

It's a Raymond Chandler Evening
And the pavements are all wet
And I'm lurking in the shadows
'Cause it hasn't happened yet

Esta canción tiene una de las letras más bobas de la historia del pop, hecho agravado con que además la copian del “Friday on my mind” de The Easybeats. Sin embargo la música tiene unas armonías y melodías tan bonitas que yo les perdono. Incluso les perdono su imagen que siempre me ha repelido en grado extremo. No hay más que ver la foto y el clip...

El primer trabajo del neozelandés y antiguo bateria de The Brunettes, Nick Harte AKA Shocking Pinks y su álbum homónimo para el sello de LCD Soundsystem (DFA). Este es el single “Emily”, aunque mi favorita es su versión de un tema de Arthur Russell, “You Can Make Me Feel Bad”. En el disco hay de todo: pop, baile estilo DFA, instrumentales ambientales y ruido. Variado