Richard Hawley, in an interview from June 2019 (https://focus.knack.be/entertainment/muziek/richard-hawley-is-al-20-jaar-de-sinatra-van-sheffield-er-zijn-ergere-vergelijkingen-toch/article-longread-1471745.html), translated from English to Dutch and back:



“My first three records [..] remained very much under the radar. It took until 2006 for everything to gain momentum. In that year my album ‘Coles Corner’ got nominated for the Mercury Prize (the most prestigious music award in the United Kingdom).



Although Arctic Monkeys won the award, and not me, Alex Turner started his speech with: "Somebody call 999, Richard Hawley’s been robbed!” That statement catapulted me in one go from low-key to mainstream musician. And I didn’t even do anything for that. Alex did all the interviews and I could stay quietly at the bar, haha!“