Our charity compilation, For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, featuring original tracks from loads of our favourite artists was released a couple of weeks ago. The physical copies are close to selling out so we wanted to show you, our lovely readers, just how nice they are so you don’t miss your chance… The...
The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But the best Christmas records to my mind are the ones that, although the seasonal...
Hefner frontman Darren Hayman is a man of many projects. In January it was writing, recording and releasing a song a day, this summer an EP and art exhibition about dogs and people in space, and now he has teamed up with Fika Recordings to present Christmas in Haworth, a six-track EP available as...
Allo Darlin’ will be making a most welcome return in early 2012 with a lengthy tour preceding the release of their second album Europe. Elizabeth Morris and her crew, Paul Rains, Bill Botting and Michael Collins, will play a show in London early in the new year as part of the Fortuna Pop! Winter...
Please forgive us for adding to the bit-too-early Christmas chat, but we’re SO excited to announce the release of our second Christmas compilation For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011, which is out on 28th November 2011 and available to pre-order now at forfolkssake.bandcamp.com. Some of our very favourite artists have donated songs to the record,...
“On March the twenty-third, she said something so absurd, she said: you love to be in love but you never really love.” So Darren Hayman sang as lead singer of Hefner a little over ten years ago on their seminal album We Love The City. Hayman – or at least his persona on his...
Vostok 5 is a collection of songs about man’s first uncertain explorations into space. Some of them are about men, both on the ground and in the rockets themselves; some who made it, some who never made it and some who helped make it happen. Others are about the many animals that these men...
FFS favourite Darren Hayman has contributed songs and drawings to a London exhibition Vostok 5, on People and Animals in Space. Hefner frontman Hayman has teamed up with Duncan Barrett of Tigercats, Robert Rotifer, Sarah Lippett and Paul Raines from Allo Darlin. In FFS’s mind, there’s not much better than creativity and geekery combined....
Darren Hayman is auctioning off the notebook he used to write the January Songs in a bid to raise money to help animal victims of the tsunami in Japan. The 78-page moleskin notebook is described as being “full of drawings, song lyrics, prose, notes and other writing” and you can get a look at...
The uber-talented Darren Hayman has set himself the goal of writing, recording and releasing a song a day this month. Each song is released as a free download, available for only a couple of days. You can get them from his Soundcloud here. After that, you can buy them for £1 each on Bandcamp...
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