It was a struggle to write this review. Every now and then an album comes along that you just want to say “I love it, you’ll love it, please go and buy it” and leave it at that, in case…
Tag: Darren Hayman
Blog: The Seven Inch Cull by Darren Hayman
The Seven Inch record is a sacred Rubicon on the rock’n’roll trail; a talisman that represents all that is tiny, tight and teenage; pop music distilled into a perfect, plastic artifact that can never be denied as the only format…
Owl Parliament 2010 line-up announced
Last year, the first Owl Parliament was a wonder of a day: Mechanical Bride, Jeff Lewis, Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling were a few of the stellar acts who performed to a Union Chapel auditorium packed full of numb-bummed music…
Blog: Darren Hayman sings Vic Chesnutt
The Hefner frontman posted his cover of the late Vic Chessnut’s Gravity of the Situation on his twitter. You can download the MP3 here.
Blog: Darren Hayman posts pictures of Wave Pictures recording session
Hefner frontman and creator of last year’s masterful folk opera Pram Town has posted photos of the Wave Pictures during a recording session at his house in December. According to Darren, the band were at Hayman Towers recording a song for…
Album | Darren Hayman – Pram Town
Pram Town is a ‘folk opera’ from former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman. The story follows a unmotivated guy stuck in the town where he grew up, Harlow (nicknamed Pram Town in the 50s because of the sudden influx of young families when the town was built in the aftermath of WWII). He meets an ‘out of his league’ London woman while fare-evading in a first class train carriage.