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Darren’s Digital Catalogue Cleanup (Missing Albums / Never-Ending Singles Club / YouTube + More)

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If you’ve been following on the socials or catching Darren Hayman’s interviews with The J-Card Podcast, Atwood Magazine, God Is In the TV and Merry-Go-Round Magazine, you might have noticed that Darren’s digital world has been a getting a good tidy-up lately.

We now have a fancy Linktree that will take you to just about anything you could hope to find about Darren’s music, art, social media, merch, etc.  What does a “digital tidy-up” mean, though?

After countless releases with numerous lineups on various record labels, bits of back catalogue had fallen off the digital services, gotten buried in a Metadata mix-up, or, in some cases, had never been uploaded to begin with. We’ve been working to sort that out and get things back where they should be.

Now, you can find previously missing or newly added titles like The Best of Hefner, The Ship’s Piano, Essex Arms, The Doll’s House Room, as well as newly expanded editions of The Violence and Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee, which were released with the Audio Antihero label. Additionally, we’ve started putting up some titles in their original forms, before we added second discs and bonuses, giving you a more classic experience of the Hefner albums and EPs, as well as other titles.

To dig back into the back catalogue and see what you might be missing, you can visit your digital service of choice, or check any of these handy playlists.

The Darren Hayman / Hefner YouTube channel is updating weekly with music videos, performances, art videos, and more!

Supporters of Darren’s Patreon can more easily find the type of media they’re looking for now that the monthly songs, album commentaries, “How I Wrote…” videos, BTS, etc, all have their own dedicated collection.

If you’re new to Patreon, there’s even a collection of free content to get you started, which includes things like exclusive songs, art tutorial, “How I Wrote:  The Day That Thatcher Dies,” and an album commentary for ‘Essex Arms.’ 

Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee (Bonus Tracks) by Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee” target=”_blank”>Bandcamp has been reorganised so it should be easier to find albums, EPs, singles and compilations from Hefner, The French, New Starts, Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern, Darren Hayman & The Wave Pictures, and Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee (Bonus Tracks) by Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee” target=”_blank”>lots more.

  • ThankfulVillages.co.uk Back Online:

Darren’s Thankful Villages project is now back online and archived at https://thankful-villages.co.uk

  • What’s next?

A lot! So, be sure to follow Darren wherever you roam on social media and wherever you like to listen to music – https://linktr.ee/darrenhaymancatalogue

Essex Arms SALE PRICE

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FPOP95 Format: CD / Vinyl / Download Released: 04 October 2010

The new album from ex-Hefner man Darren Hayman and his band of folk-rock renegades is their finest work to date

Essex Arms is the third album by Darren Hayman And The Secondary Modern. Darren, of course, is best known as the singer-songwriter of the phenomenally successful and much-loved Hefner, although it’s worth noting that he has now made six albums to Hefner’s four. In the latest incarnation of the constantly morphing Secondary Modern he has gathered together a set of musicians with the chops to do justice to his increasingly complex and mature songs; a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop.

The second in a proposed trilogy of albums about Hayman’s home county of Essex, Essex Arms is a conceptual piece about the East Anglian rural underbelly. Whereas Pram Town (2009) dealt with the displacement and ennui of living in a new town (Harlow) – and received the best reviews of Hayman’s post-Hefner career – Essex Arms takes the narrative to the countryside.

Buy Essex Arms on CD


Buy Essex Arms on vinyl (with download code)


 

Or buy the download from Bandcamp for £7

The Green and the Grey – CD and Download

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Released 7th June 2011

A special low price CD and download featuring 16 additional songs from the Essex Arms sessions.

The sessions for Essex Arms were unlike those for many of Darren’s records. Mulitple versions and many unused songs were recorded. We’ve collected the best on this low price CD and download

Songs: The Green and the Grey, Essex Arms, Nothing You Can Do About It (alternate version), No Undo, Cocoa Butter (demo version), Until We Got Bored, Beach Head, Sleep Through the Afternoon, Horror Video Nights, She Can Cook, The Winter Makes You Want Me More (alternate version), Spiderman Beats Ironman (alternate version), 0s and 1s, Sting and his Lute, Trees and Leaves.

Buy The Green and the Grey on CD for £7 (includes P and P)


Or buy the downloads from Bandcamp for £5