Darren Hayman
Great British Holiday EPs
CD and DVD set
released June/July on Belka (HEFCD09)

Between 2005 and 2007 Darren released four EPs detaling his British Holidays. Darren would take ukuleles, minidisks and casio keyboards to caravan parks, Butlins and B and Bs. The songs are sweet and tender, lo-fi vignettes about lost youth, faded photographs and half-understood Britishness.

This is quite a package, as well as featuring all of the EP songs and all the original artwork in a 16 page booklet, Darren has recorded 3 holiday cover versions; Holiday Road (originally by Lyndsey Buckingham from the film National Lampoons Vacation), Margate (originally by Chas and Dave) and V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N. (originally by Connie Francis)

Also included is a DVD featuring 5 videos and an interview with Darren about the project shot on the coast in Kent.

This CD/DVD will be available in shops via Cargo and also from our own shop and download shop.
CD tracks...

Caravan Songs EP

1. Caravan Song
2. Future Song
3. Welcome to Cresswell Towers
4. Loft Song
5. Victim Song (previously unreleased)
6. Holiday Road (Bonus Track)

Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast EP

7. Rain All Summertime
8. The Only Kind Of Light I Know
9. Hardcore No More
10. 8 Bit World
11. V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N. (Bonus Track)

Eastbourne Lights EP

12. Eastbourne Lights
13. The Musgrave Collection
14. No Military Man
15. Retirement Days
16. Margate (Bonus Track)

Minehead EP

17. Out Of Season
18. Say It Ain’t So
19. The Way It Seems
20. 1976

DVD...

Videos

1. The Protons and the Neutrons
2. Caravan Song
3. Rain All Summertime
4. Eastbourne Lights
5. Out Of Season

Interviews

Interview With Darren Hayman by Robert Rotifer

The original websites for the Holiday EP series are worth exploring with videos, downloads, picture galleries and more.