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Friday, 1 May 2015
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Darren Hayman - All For The Cause
we have a new version of All For The Cause from Darren's Chants For Socialists available as a FREE download here:
and you can still get tickets for Darren's show at St Pancras Old Church here
Friday, 27 March 2015
double vinyl chants
there will be just two double vinyl versions of Darren's Chants for Socialists available at the Independent Label Market in Spitalfields this Saturday - that's the regular version of the album, and a dub version
Friday, 13 March 2015
Friday, 13 February 2015
Darren on Radio 3
oh, yes... Darren is on the Verb on Radio 3 this evening at 10pm, along with Cornelia Parker and Kate Tempest
you can have a listen here
Friday, 30 January 2015
we're nearly out of the vinyl
so make sure you get your copy direct today:
there should also be copies in your favourite independent record shop from monday - here a few that are stocking it
Cargo
Norman Records
Piccadilly Records
Juno
Rough Trade
South
if you have a shop that is stocking the record feel free to add the details in the comments
there should also be copies in your favourite independent record shop from monday - here a few that are stocking it
Cargo
Norman Records
Piccadilly Records
Juno
Rough Trade
South
if you have a shop that is stocking the record feel free to add the details in the comments
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Union Chapel show
i'm sure a ton of photos will be cropping up from the amazing Union Chapel on Saturday, here's a start, taken during soundcheck (there were 658 people in there for the show)
Friday, 23 January 2015
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
Monday, 12 January 2015
Friday, 9 January 2015
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Darren Hayman – a playful flounce through an indie hero’s solo canon
the Guardian reviewed last night's show at the Lexington (and mentioned Chants again!)
After releasing 10 solo albums following the split of urban-folk legends Hefner, cult indie hero Darren Hayman can pretty much do as he pleases. At times this involves simply chanting “old man, stupid old man!” during a fiddly instrumental changeover. At others, it means indulging in that archetypal indie pastime, the concept project.
Since 2009, Hayman has released a trilogy of albums about his home county of Essex, cataloguing its suburban squalor, history of witch trials and notable dogging sites. He made an album of instrumentals about UK lidos in 2012, and his forthcoming album, Chants for Socialists, is a “lament for lost hope” based on the 19th-century protest poetry of William Morris. “But I’m not playing any of that on party night,” Hayman chuckles. Instead he marks his label Fortuna Pop!’s annual Winter Sprinter showcase with a playful flounce through a solo canon full of awkward trysts in soulless satellite towns.
Clad in fishing cap and scarf, Hayman and the fiddlers, egg-shakers and squeeze-boxers of the Long Parliament resemble a beachcombing folk band wracked with knowing indiepop self-deprecation. He beats his forehead while berating himself for punching above his romantic weight on the stark lullaby Out of My League, and he likens putting reverb on his wobbly, pubescent warble to “putting a dogshit on a velvet pillow”, well aware that his frail voice gives these pained paeans their vulnerable, everyman elegance. After a cranky early cover of Prince’s Raspberry Beret, he says: “Follow that? I can’t”, though he knows he can. Strident alt-pop jigs Pram Town, Calling Out Your Name Again and Big Fish are affectionate tributes to the inescapable mundanity of Harlow, the languid Taught You How to Dance is bathed in tongue-in-cheek mirrorball and Nothing You Can Do About It spells out its ennui on a Scrabble board for added bookworm charm. Only the fuzz-pop freak-out finale of Hefner’s Pull Yourself Together, with Hayman windmilling like a mobile library Pete Townshend, could count as crowd-pleasing, but it is a pleasure to entertain Hayman’s homegrown indulgences.
After releasing 10 solo albums following the split of urban-folk legends Hefner, cult indie hero Darren Hayman can pretty much do as he pleases. At times this involves simply chanting “old man, stupid old man!” during a fiddly instrumental changeover. At others, it means indulging in that archetypal indie pastime, the concept project.
Since 2009, Hayman has released a trilogy of albums about his home county of Essex, cataloguing its suburban squalor, history of witch trials and notable dogging sites. He made an album of instrumentals about UK lidos in 2012, and his forthcoming album, Chants for Socialists, is a “lament for lost hope” based on the 19th-century protest poetry of William Morris. “But I’m not playing any of that on party night,” Hayman chuckles. Instead he marks his label Fortuna Pop!’s annual Winter Sprinter showcase with a playful flounce through a solo canon full of awkward trysts in soulless satellite towns.
Clad in fishing cap and scarf, Hayman and the fiddlers, egg-shakers and squeeze-boxers of the Long Parliament resemble a beachcombing folk band wracked with knowing indiepop self-deprecation. He beats his forehead while berating himself for punching above his romantic weight on the stark lullaby Out of My League, and he likens putting reverb on his wobbly, pubescent warble to “putting a dogshit on a velvet pillow”, well aware that his frail voice gives these pained paeans their vulnerable, everyman elegance. After a cranky early cover of Prince’s Raspberry Beret, he says: “Follow that? I can’t”, though he knows he can. Strident alt-pop jigs Pram Town, Calling Out Your Name Again and Big Fish are affectionate tributes to the inescapable mundanity of Harlow, the languid Taught You How to Dance is bathed in tongue-in-cheek mirrorball and Nothing You Can Do About It spells out its ennui on a Scrabble board for added bookworm charm. Only the fuzz-pop freak-out finale of Hefner’s Pull Yourself Together, with Hayman windmilling like a mobile library Pete Townshend, could count as crowd-pleasing, but it is a pleasure to entertain Hayman’s homegrown indulgences.
Monday, 5 January 2015
Friday, 2 January 2015
Monday, 10 November 2014
the making of Chants for Socialists
Darren made a short film about the making of the album:
the digital version will be a pay what you want release, on 2nd Feb 2015, and you can pre-order your physical copy here:
the digital version will be a pay what you want release, on 2nd Feb 2015, and you can pre-order your physical copy here:
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