A Firmer Hand: Vinyl LP Wire Aside from Growing Old

Aside from Growing Old

Featuring nine different groups

We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah

‘Trickle Down’ and ‘Six-Eight Instrumental’ were written and recorded undercover at the band’s Wellington studio

A Firmer Hand: Vinyl LP Wire Aside from Growing OldWriting this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. In a caf just around the corner from his Edinburgh flat, Hamish Hawk is contemplating his extraordinary new record, A Firmer Hand. 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.