You can now buy the first four Occupation posters. The posters are A4 and will be sent in a strong cardboard tube.
Buy the Occupation Posters!
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Old Man Don’t Waste Your Time – 7 Inch
Released on May 7th by WIAIWYA records.
On OLD MAN Darren Hayman serves up the best bits of Prince, Dr Feelgood, the Laughing Clowns and Hefner in a pint of POP that’ll be lodged in your noggin til a week next Thursday… once it’s there, it ain’t budging, so you might as well strap on your air guitar and pour yourself a chaser of TUNE… in fact, just take the shade off that standard lamp and sing your way through the third spin, adding your own grunts and moans as appropriate (and they are ALL appropriate)… by the fourth round, as you collapse onto the sofa of SONG to soak up the sax solo (I know, I KNOW!), OLD MAN will be tattooed on your temporal lobe, permanent, forever… and ever… amen…
It’s REALLY good
OLD MAN was recorded in a day in Sidcup Working Man’s club; Ian Button arrived at 9:00 to set up, Darren and the Long Parliament arrived at 10:00 to get recording, the cameras started rolling, the bar opened, the magic happened, and by 5:00 we had a video, a photoshoot, and two HITS for wiaiwya-7777777…
wiaiwya-7777777 is a series of seven 7″ singles released during 2013, one on each day of the week, and always on the 7th of the month, in the 7 colours of the rainbow, with exclusive tunes from 7 of the most exciting indie, electronic, folk and alternative bands around… oh, they come in editions of 777 too…
there’s lots more information here – http://wiaiwya-7777777.blogspot.co.uk/
Buy Old Man Don’t Waste Your Time on 7-inch
Or buy the downloads from Bandcamp
I Taught You How To Dance – Vinyl EP
Originally released 21st November 2011 on Fortuna Pop.
‘I Taught You How To Dance’ is the sole single from The Ship’s Piano. Sweet, gentle, and with just a hint of sexual tension, it offers an ideal sampler of the warmth and complexity of Darren’s solo piano album. ‘I Taught You How To Dance’ is available on 10-inch 4-track single only, and also features three covers of other songs with ‘Dance’ in the title: ‘Dance Away’ by Roxy Music, ‘I Don’t Want To Dance’ by Eddy Grant and ‘Come Dancing’ by the Kinks.
Buy I Taught You How To Dance on 10-inch vinyl
Buy the downloads from Bandcamp for £2.99 here
Losing My Glue EP
Originally released March 2011 on Belka.
The EP ‘Losing My Glue’ takes its title track from Darren’s acclaimed album Pram Town, and also features the songs ‘Ruth’, ‘Small Town Sleeping’, and ‘Amateur Dramatics’. ‘Ruth’ and ‘Small Town Sleeping’ were recorded in a special recording session and co-written with Secondary Modern drummer David Sheppard of Ellis Island Sound. Losing My Glue can be purchased from Darren’s Bandcamp – click through on the playlist below.
Download Darren’s artwork for Losing My Glue as a PDF
Download for £1.50
Calling Out Your Name Again – 7″ EP
Originally released 11th October 2010
‘Calling Out Your Name Again’ is the second single from Essex Arms, featuring Emmy The Great and available both on 7-inch and as a digital download. Darren and Emmy sing about illicit love in abandoned cars, accompanied by buzzing strings and frenetic percussion. The song is backed by three other tracks from the album sessions; ‘Essex Arms’, ‘Beach Head’ and ‘Until We Got Bored’.
All of the songs on this release can also be found on The Green and the Grey
Songs for Harmonium and Drum Machine
Originally released December 2008 on p572 Records. p572 records, run by Samuel Murdock, is a Canadian label based in Quebec. When Samuel suggested Darren make a conceptual EP to be released on vinyl, Darren wrote four songs about some of the actors forming the 1980s brat pack: Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy.
Buy the downlaods for £1.50 at Bandcamp.
Bad Policewoman/Your Heart – single
Recorded during sessions for the album Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern. The two songs on this 7-inch do not appear on the album. The b-side features Terry Edwards on saxophone. Limited to 500 numbered copies.
Buy Bad Policewoman on 7-inch
Table For One – The Dessert Menu – mini-album
Originally released 12th March 2007 on Track & Field.
A mini-album of 6 tracks from the Table for One sessions, five of them unreleased; but they’re not outtakes. They’re better than outtakes.
Buy Table For One: The Dessert Menu CD
Buy Table for One: The Dessert Menu downloads from bandcamp for £2.49
The Stereo Morphonium
Originally released 22nd August, 2005.
Darren describes the Stereo Morphonium, a spin-off band formed with his friend Joel Neumatic, as ‘weird freak-out synth rock with no vocals’. They played ‘two fairly hilarious shows’, and their EP, consisting of the tracks ‘The Stereo Morphonium’, ‘Pigeon Box’, ‘Gemini 6’, ‘Plight of the Manhattanite’, and ‘Ozmodiar’, remains available to buy.
Buy The Stereo Morphonium on CD
Cortinaland – EP
Originally released 18th July 2005 on Acuarela Records.
A five-track EP, Cortinaland consists of tracks taken from Darren’s first solo album ‘Table For One’. Marking a folkier departure from The French’s synths and drum machines, tracks include ‘Leave Your Shoes On’, ‘The Light In Her Room’ (featuring Antony from Hefner on backing vocals and percussion), ‘Crissy M’, the political ‘Little Democracies’, and ‘A Different Kind of Me’, featuring guitar from Dave Watkins.
Originally released 5th October 1998.
Buy Cortinaland CD