Hawksley Workman

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Hawksley Workman (* 4. March 1975 in Huntsville , Ontario , as Ryan Corrigan ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter .

biography

Hawksley Workman, who grew up in the wooded, rural region of Bay Lake on Lake Huron in Ontario , Canada , had a father as a percussionist , which is why he first began his musical career as a drummer. He was booked for studio recordings and tours at a young age, but did not want to be a rental drummer in the long run. He put his stage name together from the names of his maternal grandparents.

In the course of his further development he became an all- rounder in terms of instrument control, which is why he plays and sings almost every part on his records himself. In his early self-determined artistic phase, he was noticed when he wrote personal letters in weekly newspapers to his fictional muse Isadora . These and other letters were compiled in his first book, Hawksley Burns for Isadora (Gutter Press, 2001).

After he had recorded his first album at the age of 20 (but only released in 2004) and had moved to Toronto , he finally made his album debut in 1999 under the title For Him and the Girls . Randy Lennox of Universal Music discovered him in 1998 in a small club in Hawksley's neighborhood. So he was able to quit his job in a tap dance school. After his second official album (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves , which contains two single hits with Striptease and Jealous of Your Cigarette , Hawksley went to Paris for almost a year . During this time he worked with artists such as the French rock 'n' roll icon Johnny Hallyday , the techno artist Tommy Hools and the indie newcomers Aston Villa. In the same year, 2002, he received the Juno Award as "Best New Solo Artist" and one for "Best Video", namely that without cuts auskommende Jealous of Your Cigarette .

He toured Europe with well-known artists such as David Bowie , Patti Smith , New Order , The Cure , Marianne Faithfull and Noir Désir . Not least because of his stay in France in connection with frequent festival presence, his popularity in the French-speaking area was greatest. During the Football World Cup in 2002 , his performance of the Beatles song Revolution was broadcast for a TV commercial with the French football star Zinédine Zidane .

It took Workman eight months for Lover / Fighter from 2003, during which he repeatedly doubted his compositions. Previously, the writing process only took two weeks. After Los Manlicious (2008), Workman broke away from Universal Music and only sought external support years later, this time through the independent label Six Shooter Records. In 2013, he went public as a member of a new band called the Mounties. The idea for this came to Hawksley Workman at the Juno Awards 2009, but the three musicians who found each other there were all busy in advance and didn't want to announce it too early, so they waited until the single Headphones was available. The accompanying album was released in March 2014.

Also in 2013, Workman caused a sensation with a one-man rock cabaret show. For The God That Comes he and Christian Barry, the director of the 2b Theater in Halifax , brought an adaptation of the Euripides tragedy The Bacchae onto the stage of the Alberta Theater Project. Hawksley appeared in various disguises and with the more complex pieces of music like If Your Prayer (Is a Song) and The Dress Makes the Man he accompanied himself thanks to loop technology on the drums, on the keyboard and on the guitar, giving the impression that he had one complete band in the back.

Hawksley has worked as a producer for artists such as Serena Ryder , Sarah Slean , Jeen O'Brien , John Soutworth , Tegan & Sara and Great Big Sea . Together with Oscar- winning actress Marion Cotillard, he composed and sang the duet The Strong Ones for a Cartier campaign in 2008 . He owns a one-room school building that is over a hundred years old and which his grandmother visited as a child. It now serves him as a home and as a recording studio . With Isadora Records , Workman runs his own record label, on which he offers up-and-coming artists like his compatriot Serena Ryder, for example, entry into the music business, but mainly publishes his own works tirelessly.

style

His first albums were " Pop with passion", he said in an interview, and should be understood as a reaction to the hated grunge ; But he came into focus primarily as a freak . The journalist Christopher Lindemann countered that he had tried “almost megalomaniac melodic, Robbie Williams-like pop rock hymns”.

The first album moves in the realms of folk , pop and glam rock , lets laut.de know. The Canadian magazine Famous called most of the songs on Lover / Fighter "pleasing pop songs". The Rolling Stone reviewer used almost the same term (“lover song”) . Sometimes songwriter qualities are recognizable, he writes, but the whole thing has the attitude of a would-be rock star. Sputnikmusic.com describes Workman's music as alternative rock . The Globe and Mail website discussing the cabaret performance speaks of “songs with a glam rock aroma”.

Sputnikmusic.com goes into the style most extensively :

“Hawksley Workman's music is diverse, with significant changes in style from album to album as well as from song to song. Although there are surely countless influences for his music, there is hardly any one band that can be pinpointed to as "the same," and certainly if one song is boxed in this way, the rest of the tracks on that albums are going to be different. Hawksley Workman's style ranges from grungy pop rock on Lovers / Fighters to quiet, sing-song acoustic melodies and tragically era-relevant lyrics on the bittersweet "Treeful of Starling", and everything in between from sexy jazz rock and alternative folk on 'Delicious Wolves 'to the showtune-esque' Paper Shoes' from 'Him and The Girls'. "

“Hawksley Workman's music is diverse, with significant stylistic changes from album to album as well as from song to song. There are certainly innumerable influences in his music, but you can hardly find any band that sounds "exactly the same". And of course, if a song goes in a certain direction, the rest of the songs on this album are different. Hawksley Workman's variety of styles ranges from grunge-like pop-rock on Lovers / Fighters to calm, low- modulation acoustic melodies and tragic lyrics on the bittersweet Treeful of Starling as well as everything in between from sexy jazz-rock and alternative folk on Delicious Wolves to a paper similar to a show Shoes from the album Him and the Girls . "

- sputnikmusic.com

The lyrics are often about love, sex, pain and loss. Gerrit Pohl from Rolling Stone sees them as "irrelevant" and "simple-minded".

The person Hawksley Workman describes Jörn Schlüter in Rolling Stone as "[i] r somewhere between rock'n'roll star, spoken word performer and vaudeville figure", who "celebrates the big rock gesture, sometimes cabaret" .

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: For Him and the Girls (Isadora Records)
  • 2001: (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Isadora Records / Universal Music)
  • 2001: Almost a Full Moon (8 songs, green cover, Isadora Records)
  • 2002: Almost a Full Moon (10 songs, 1-7 like Version 2001, purple cover, Isadora Records / Universal Music)
  • 2003: (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (with bonus tracks, video clips and other covers, Ba Da Bing!)
  • 2003: Lover / Fighter (Isadora Records / Universal Music)
  • 2004: Before We Were Security Guards (recordings from 1998, Isadora Records)
  • 2006: Treeful of Starling (Isadora Records / Universal Music)
  • 2006: My Little Toothless Beauties (Live, Isadora Records)
  • 2006: Puppy (A Boy's Truly Rough)
  • 2008: Between the Beautifuls (Universal Music)
  • 2008: Los Manlicious (Universal Music)
  • 2010: Meat (Isadora Records)
  • 2010: Milk (Isadora Records)
  • 2010: Meat / Milk (double CD, combined CDs from the same year, Isadora Records)
  • 2011: Full Moon Eleven (double CD, Isadora Records)
  • 2013: Songs from The God that Comes (songs from the play The God that Comes , Isadora Records)
  • 2014: Thrash Rock Legacy (as Mounties, Light Organ Records)
  • 2015: Old Cheetah (Six Shooter Records)

Singles and EPs

  • 2001: Jealous of Your Cigarette (Isadora Records)
  • 2001: No More Named Johnny (French promo single, recall)
  • 2002: Striptease (Isadora Records)
  • 2003: Anger as Beauty (Universal Music)
  • 2003: We Will Still Need a Song (different versions with 1, 2, 3 or 4 songs, Universal Music)
  • 2004: No Reason to Cry Out Your Eyes (On Highway Tonight) (Universal Music)
  • 2008: Between the B-Sides (Isadora Records)
  • 2010: Not Your Parent's Music (Isadora Records)
  • 2010: (The Happiest Day I Know Is a) Tokyo Bicycle (Isadora Records)
  • 2010: The Ground We Stand on (Six Shooter Records)

DVDs

  • 2004: Live in Lille (Isadora Records / Universal Music)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ingrid Randoja: Hawksley Workman is not a Cabaret Singer, and Krall and Wainwright Go Hollywood . Hawksley's workmanship. In: Famous . Canada's # 1 Movie Magazine in Canada's # 1 Theaters. September 2003, p. 40 ( cineplex.com [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b c d Strunz! Enterprises (Ed.): Hawksley Workman. "I'm Jealous of Your Cigarette" . Erding 2003 (laundry slip).
  3. ↑ a b c Hawksley Workman. Alternative rock. In: sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hawksley Workman. Portrait. Laut.de biography. In: laut.de. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Brad Wheeler: More than Ever, Hawksley Workman is Moving to His Own Beat. In: Theglobeandmail.com. March 11, 2014, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Jörn Schlueter: Pop the way I want it. The quirky Hawksley Workman finally wants to be mainstream . In: Rolling Stone . No. 112 , February 2004, Rock & Roll, p. 15 .
  7. ^ A b c d Laura Antonelli: Hawksley Workman. In: songfacts.com. August 14, 2014, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hawksley Workman. Bio. In: jambase.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b c J. Kelly Nestruck: The God That Comes: Hawksley Workman's sexy Greek tragedy. Play Review. In: theglobeandmail.com. March 22, 2013, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  10. ^ Marion Cotillard. Trivia (148). In: imdb.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  11. ↑ a b Christopher Lindemann: Hawksley Workman. Canada's reluctant indie child prodigy conquers Europe with clever, poppy stadium rock . In: Musikexpress . No. 577 , February 2004, Newcomer, p. 14 .
  12. ↑ a b Gerrit Pohl: Hawksley Workman. Lover / Fighter . Efforted poses and dramas - unfortunately not a convincing concept. In: Rolling Stone . No. 113 , March 2004, p. 108 .

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personal data
SURNAME Workman, Hawksley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corrigan, Ryan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntsville , Ontario ,