Originally from Fairmilehead in the south of Scotland’s capital, Hawk has been making music for more than a decade, with his first two albums earning praise.<\/p>\n
However, A Firmer Hand – which mixed artful indie rock and synth-pop with open, emotional lyrics regarding Hawk’s relationships with various men – marked a step up for the singer, resulting in glowing reviews.<\/p>\n
It was a record often dark in tone and emotion, but Hawk himself seems content now, although he admits opening himself up was not an easy thing to do.<\/p>\n
“I do feel I’m in a better place now,” he says. <\/p>\n
“Writing and releasing an album like A Firmer Hand wasn’t the easiest thing, it’s quite vulnerable and exposing. It was more sincerely autobiographical than anything I’d written before, and it was a catharsis for me. <\/p>\n
“At the time I said I opened a cupboard and a skeleton fell out, and now I’m in a place where I’ve been made stronger by that, and I’m thankful. <\/p>\n
“Everything just poured out when writing, like an exorcism \u2013 I don’t know what follows an exorcism but it’s got to be better than what was there before.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally from Fairmilehead in the south of Scotland’s capital, Hawk has been making music for more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}