A Hawk and a Hacktour: peddling wares across the UK with Portishead

It's a headline that never gets old. A Hawk and a Hacksaw will return to the UK again this spring.

The act, described wonderfully by the Saturday Telegraph as a “resonant stew”, will perform as a quartet for the shows; regular duo Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost joined by Ferenc Kovacs and Chris Hladowski for the dates supporting Portishead on the UK, Portuguese and Italian legs of their trek across Europe.

After that, there are May headline shows – see for yourself below:

April
9 Manchester Apollo
10 London Hammersmith Apollo
11 Lancaster Yorkshire House
12 Edinburgh Corn Exchange
13 Wolverhampton Civic
14 Birmingham Glee Club
17 London Brixton Academy

May
9 Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
10 Cork Cyprus Avenue
11 Dublin Boom Boom Boom
12 Aberdeen the Tunnels
13 Glasgow the Arches
14 Leeds Hi-Fi Club
15 Bristol the Thekla
16 Minehead Butlins (EITS ATP)

Jeremy Barnes? Him ex- of Neutral Milk Hotel? At ATP? Intriguing…