King’s Meadow from Darren Hayman on Vimeo.

The official website for the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman
King’s Meadow from Darren Hayman on Vimeo.
This August Darren releases a instrumental album about Britain’s Open Air Swimming Pools, Lido. The record will be available on vinyl and CD in beautiful hand made packaging. Go and visit Darren’s Lido Blog for videos, pictures, sounds and words.
LIDO IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER FROM THE HEFNER SHOP
9th February 2012
We never do the ideas we have in pubs. In pubs we go, ‘That’s a great idea!’ in the morning we go, ‘Hmm not so great’. But what if the ideas we have in pubs are the best? I had an idea to re-record my album ‘The Ship’s Piano’ in a day on casios and call it the Shit Piano. Although on the surface it’s an idea based on a pun I was thinking about the tradition of remixes and the earlier tradition of Dub versions of albums. I tried to use the limitation of the Casios to find new and interesting readings of the songs. The album definitely isn’t ‘shit’ on purpose. I hope you like it.
The Ship’s Piano from Darren Hayman on Vimeo.