Category: Shop Related

‘Nobody You’d Know’/‘Borderline’ – Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars – Cassingle

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‘Nobody You’d Know’ is the first release from Darren Hayman’s forthcoming album ‘Amazing Things’, to be released under the name Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars.

‘Amazing Things’ is an uplifting about friendship, death and grief. ‘Nobody You’d Know’ is the opening scene setting song that hopes to tell you about a good person you possibly missed out on. The cassette single is backed with a version of Madonna’s ‘Borderline’, a favourite of Darren’s friend and subject matter of the whole album.

Despite the electric guitar always being Darren’s primary instrument this is the first time he has felt he’s dug deep into the instrument. This song and the following album are rich on tone, feeling and melody.

The cassette single is designed by Will Arnold who also designed the album art. Will is another good friend of the song’s subject matter and everything has been made with love.

Here is a video for the song.

The cassingle is limited to just 50 copies and comes with a download code. It will be released and sent out on or around 25th May.

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Buy ‘Nobody You’d Know’ by Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars


Fun Fair – Darren Hayman

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For Darren’s exhibition of fun fair paintings at Art Dog Gallery this November and December we have a made a book featuring all 36 of the paintings over 76 pages.

This run of books is limited to 300 copies and Darren’s last art book ‘The Last Dog Walk’ sold out in a few weeks.

The book will ship on or around 23rd November.

Each painting is accompanied by a fragment of prose by Darren and the book also contains Darren’s thoughts on the process and creation of the paintings.

Prices include postage and packing.

Buy ‘Fun Fair’ by Darren Hayman


Bundle offer! Save money by buying Fun Fair and More Break Up Songs by New Starts together.

Buy Fun Fair/New Starts CD Bundle


Buy Fun Fair/New Starts Vinyl Bundle


‘Paul McCartney’s Birds’ exclusive print by Darren Hayman

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An exclusive Giclee print limited to 100 copies on 240 gsm paper. Every one is numbered and signed in pencil by Darren. It features nine paintings by Darren based on songs by Paul McCartney that feature birds.

The prints are A3 in size (297 x 420mm) and will be sent wrapped in tissue and rolled into a mailing tube.

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Buy ‘Paul McCartney’s Birds’ print




The Last Dog Walk

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A 72 page book of Darren’s first ever painting exhibition.

The Last Dog Walk is a collection of paintings about solitude, loneliness and envy. Each painting is accompanied by a new Hayman lyric or line of poetry.

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Hefner – Steve Lamacq Session 15.07.98 – Double Seven Inch

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Third and final Hefner contribution to the Precious singles series … and what a contribution it is, a session from Steve Lamacq’s ‘Live Lounge’ with a Jonathan Richman cover in the mix. The download will also include ‘The Hymn For The Cigarettes’, which the band played live into the show from Maida Vale. Plus the package includes a set of four ‘Hefner does DiY’ postcards by Darren Hayman, which any self-respecting fan will surely want. And he’s done his usual top job on the sleeve notes.

Songsheet:
The Weight Of The Stars, The Hymn For The Things We Didn’t Do, Every Little Gesture, To Hide A Little Thought

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Steve Lamacq Session Two 7 inch pack

Maida Vale – Hefner – Red Vinyl (RSD release)

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Never before available on vinyl this is a recording of Hefner’s full concert for the John Peel show with brass section and Amelia Fletcher on guest vocals, (released on cult indie label wiaiwya) on 13 May 2022. Available on black and green vinyl.

On the 23rd August 2000 Hefner played a very special show from BBC’s Maida Vale studios to an invited audience for the John Peel show. This was the highlight of a relationship between the band and the greatly revered DJ which saw 5 Peel sessions and four live concerts broadcast on his Radio 1 show.

The concert on this album features an 8 piece version of the band with includes a brass section, pedal steels, ukuleles and violin alongside their own guitars bass and drums. It also features several contributions from Amelia Fletcher, (Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Wedding Present, Marine Research). The songs have been newly remixed from the original master tapes.

Order Maida Vale on red vinyl here!

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Maida Vale Red Vinyl (including download)

You can also buy the download from Bandcamp here…

Breaking God’s Heart – Hefner – Vinyl and 2CD

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Finally, a second repress of the debut album by Darren Hayman and his first band Hefner in time for the 20th Anniversary.

It’s like the original. It has ten songs on it.

The two CD version has 40 songs on it, including 30 b-sides and outtakes.

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Breaking Gods Heart Black Vinyl

Breaking God’s Heart 2CD set with 40 songs including b-sides and unreleased songs

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xx​!​! – a tribute to the James Bond themes of Dame Shirley Bassey – Featuring Darren

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double coloured vinyl 7″, with inner sleeves includes download

Darren covers Goldfinger with backing singers and everything.

Full track listiing…

Sleeper featuring David Gedge – Mr Kisss Kiss Bang Bang
The Left Outsides – Diamonds are Forever
Darren Hayman – Goldfinger
DJ Downfall featuring Theoretical Girl – Moonraker

SOLD OUT! SORRY!

I Can Travel Through Time – Darren Hayman – 10 track 33 rpm 7 inch

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This is an album, but it is not an album. Released on a 33rpm seven inch, this record features ten songs, some less then a minute long. It is released on Formosa Punk Records on 24th April 2020.

The record acts as an epilogue or side bar to Darren’s new full-length record later this year, Home Time on Fika Records. Both records are concerned with break ups but more importantly the emotional retreat we need to recover from these things.

‘When I’m hurt I want to be small. I want to be unnoticed. During the making of Home Time I was imposing restrictions on myself to make the music smaller, limiting to 8 track, acoustic instruments,’ says Darren.

After making the album Darren though further about these ideas of retreat and going into hiding. ‘I thought another way to make the songs even smaller is to make them literally small. I wrote 13 tiny pieces, barely a verse and a chorus, but every one of them said what I needed it to. I chose the best ten for the record.’

The record was made in one day at East London’s Soup Studios with a band consisting of Emma Kupa (bass – Standard Fair, Mammoth Penguins), Patrick Ralla (Rocking Birds, Hanging Stars) and Johnny Helm (The Wave Pictures).

The seven inch is limited to 300 copies, 100 for Japan and 300 for the UK. It is available through Hayman’s own website hefnet.com and a very few select shops.

The digital release will include 23 tracks including demos of every song and three extra songs. It will be available through all usual digital outlets. The physical copy comes with a download link to this version.

Side A: 1. Blue Suitcase 2. You Are Still My Password 3. I Want to be a Dot 4. Want Doesn’t Get 5. Gold in a Box

Side B: 1. Do You Think I Would Again 2. Brown Paper 3. Make It Disapear 4. A Family 5. On the Edge of Things

Physical copies sold out. Sorry.

Or you can buy the 23 download version here from Bandcamp.

Home Time – Darren Hayman

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Darren Hayman returns with the new album Home Time, due out on 22nd May via Fika Recordings. An autobiographical album about break ups, the record is tender, honest and frequently funny. Darren set an 8 track, acoustic rule for the record. Everything sounds warm, close and intimate. Darren’s own love-worn, London voice is joined on every song by the sweet antipodean tones of Hannah Winter and Laura K, recording artists and songwriters themselves with Common or Garden and Fortitude Valley.

When Darren Hayman made his debut in 1997 with the acclaimed indie band Hefner his lyrical remit was the broken hearted. His early songs told the story of the lonesome and lost, and broken dreams of love on the back streets of London. After Hefner, Hayman’s palette grew to include a unique take on place and memory. In the early 2000s he wrote a trilogy of albums around the history of Essex. In 2012 he made an instrumental album describing the tranquillity of Lidos. In 2016 Darren was awarded ‘Hardest Working Musician’ by the Association of Independent Music for his epic project on Thankful Villages, the 55 villages that survived the Great War with no casualties. His most recent record, 12 Astronauts, tells the personal story of the only men to have walked on the Moon.

Darren is continually obsessed with the idea of what songs can be, and the stories they can tell. As he explains, “With projects like Thankful Villages, I became interested in what a record could be, using field recordings, interviews and songs to make sound collages. I wanted to return to the stricter art of song writing and try and make the twelve best compositions I could. I wanted to make useful songs, words that could be comfort, not just thoughts that would depress.”

The songs for Home Time were written over a three-year period but recorded quickly, and with love, in Darren’s home. Home Time is a fragile, subtle slice of prettiness. Wrap it around you.

Three digital singles will be released; ‘I Tried and I Tried and I Failed’, a song about the endless, circular nature of being human, ‘I Was Thinking About You’, a song about the uncontrollable nature of memory and how it continues to haunt us even when we consider the long buried, and ‘The Joint Account’, about how when trying to negotiate matters of the heart and mind, it is sometimes the physical objects that anchor us down in the mire.

A baby sister album I Can Travel Through Time with ten one-minute songs squeezed on a seven inch is coming out alongside it on the Formosa Punk label.

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Vinyl (including download)

CD

You can also buy the download from Bandcamp here…