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Darren Hayman

Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern. 5th November

About Me

NEW ALBUM OUT 5th NOVEMBER 2007. DARREN HAYMAN AND THE SECONDARY MODERN. WWW.HEFNET.COM


Download a podcast with Darren Hayman talking you through the Secondary Modern album. Click Here.


The Crocodile - A video from the album 'Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern'. Directed by Will Parker. The song itself features John Howard
The Wrong Thing (from the album Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern), download the MOV file of this video here
Out Of Season (from the Minehead EP), download the high res version of this video here
Eastbourne Lights, download the high res version of this video here
The Protons and the Neutrons, download the high res version of this video here
Caravan Song, download the high res version of this video here
Crissy M, download the high res version of this video here
Rain All Summertime, download the high res version of this video here
The Greedy Ugly People, download the high res version of this video here
Buy the 2 CD re-issue of Breaking Gods Heart. All the b-sides, all the EPs. Residents of Great Britain £11 (£9.36 plus VAT) Residents of Europe £11.50 ..t="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" Rest of the World £12

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/31/2005
Band Website: hefnet.com
Band Members: Darren Hayman, I have released one solo album; Table for One,
and a stack of EPs. The new album Secondary Modern is all
finished and ready to go.
I was in Hefner with
Ant Harding
John Morrison
Jack Hayter
We released 5 albums and have recently released a compilation record
of unreleased tracks as well as a Best Of and a live album.
Re-issues of all these records to follow later this year.
I was in The French with
John Morrison
We released just one album, which remains one of my favourtie things I've done.
I am in Stereo Morphonium with
Joël Neumatic
One EP so far, though we often talk about an album.

I also play bass and sing in indie bluegrass band;
Hayman, Watkins Trout and Lee, with Dave Watkins,
David Tattersal (the Wave Pictures) and Dan Mayfield.
We've recorded a split single with The Epstein for Truck records.

I play bass in the live line up of Ellis Island Soundwho have just
released The Good Seed to universally good reviews. I also designed
the cover for this record.


Influences: Hefner, Stereo Morphonium, The French, Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee, Ant, Jack Hayter.
Record Label: Fortune and Glory, Track and Field
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New recording session and MP3

Darren Hayman at the Luminaire 30th March (photos by Simone) Haven't posted for a while. Here's whats being going on. Back at the end of March, I played ...
Posted by Darren Hayman on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:46:00 PST

Jack fills in!

Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee were all getting ready to play at the Local last Friday when Dan Mayfield was hit with shingles. We have played show before without Dan, but felt perhaps that we shouldn...
Posted by Darren Hayman on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST

Jack joins Secondary Modern

Last Sunday was a great day for me. I got to play with Jack Hayter for the first time in maybe 6 years or so? The occasion was the first rehearsal of the new Secondary Modern (version 4 if your counti...
Posted by Darren Hayman on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:07:00 PST

Three Albums behind

Three albums behind. In May, Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee release their debut album. June (ish) sees the release of Great British Holiday EPs. Hopefully, possibly this year will also see the release...
Posted by Darren Hayman on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:05:00 PST

The Hefner (ish) gigs

A funny week. Last week I announced two shows where I would be playing a night of Hefner songs with Jack Hayter and the shows sold out in 2 days. This makes me very happy. As many of you know who come...
Posted by Darren Hayman on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:24:00 PST