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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

Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee

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Released 6th May 2008

Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee are a country, bluegrass band from East London. They don’t sing in American accents and their songs feature tube trains, Bethnal Green, sick days, flat lemonade and unmade beds. HWTL perform weary singalongs; fragile and flawed ballads that wipe a tear and force you to smile.

Darren Hayman (ex Hefner) formed the band with Dave Watkins, in 2005, as an antidote to their ‘career’ bands. The idea was that this would be a band with as little ego as possible, with everybody taking vocals, submitting material, leaving and arriving as they wished. The group is as much about playing around Darren’s kitchen table as it is playing on any stage.

In the spirit of Big Pink, the Basement Tapes and the first McCartney album, it was decided to record the album in two days at Darren’s house, with a bunch of battered microphones, a fresh pot of tea, and some fruit cake. The resulting recordings feature seven band originals (four written by Darren and two by David Tattersall) alongside covers of songs by Townes Van Zandt and The Mountain Goats and smattering of traditional tunes.In fact the original idea was even to avoid the notion of doing records. However when Dave Tattersall (The Wave Pictures) joined in 2007 with a whole repertoire of blues and country songs, as well as his own fantastic ballads, it became obvious that they had something worth preserving.

Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee let you peer though the cracks of their kitchen, and hit nearly all the right notes in the process. Let them give you a warm handshake.

Buy Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee on CD


Or buy the download from Bandcamp for £5