Hefner/Darren Hayman Shop

Deliveries may take a little while due to holidays during August. Please be patient.

'Lido' A beautifully hand packaged CD and Vinyl £12.50 inc P&P and Vinyl £15

We have sold out of the Lido CD. Last 40 in Rough Trade tomorrow. A 2nd handprinted edition with new cover is being made and will be ready soon.

Orders on or after the 1st Sept may now be orders for the 2nd ed and will take a few weeks. Refunds will be given to any unhappy punters.

This is all due to the unique and beautiful hand made quality of the CD packaging. Blue vinyl edition with download code still available.

Lido is a beautifully hand packaged CD and Vinyl record about Britain's open air swimming pools.

The CD sleeve is hand glocko printed and the LP is on beautiful blue vinyl. Vinyl comes with download.

Click on the picture for more on the Lido project.

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Super Swimming Stadium by Darren Hayman from Darren Hayman on Vimeo.

'It's The Taking Part That Counts' Double CD featuring St. Etienne, White Town and an exclusive new song from Darren £13 inc P&P

it's the taking part that counts is a 26 track compilation album of indie, folk, pop, and electronica, celebrating 26 sports, to be released in April 2012... in the build-up to the release you'll be able to hear each of the tracks on this blog -
wiaiwya-itsthetakingpartthatcounts.blogspot.com

Darren's song is called Bundle. Here is the video

January Songs Physical CD (Individually hand drawn Gatefold Double CD) £12.50 inc P&P

Darren's extensive online songwriting project from January 2011finally receives it's physical debut. A deluxe gatefold package with 2 full colour inner bags. Limited 1500 copies EVERY SINGLE COVER HAS BEEN HAND DRAWN BY DARREN. That's right, every single cover is an individually unique image.

Although it would be extremely hard to allow online buyers to choose their own sleeve we have allowed you some choice in selecting your sleeve. The videos below on the making of the sleeves may also help you. There is over 5 hours of videos for the January Songs project at the home page.

Type of drawing and numbers

I Taught You How To Dance 10 inch Vinyl £9

A new four track ten inch EP (featuring download code). The standout track from Darren's latest album 'The Ship's Piano' is released as a ten inch EP featuring covers of three other songs with 'Dance' in the title; 'Dance Away' by Roxy Music, 'I Don't Want to Dance' by Eddy Grant and 'Come Dancing' by the Kinks.

The Ship's Piano CD and Vinyl £11.50

A gentle album of piano ballads. Availble on CD in a beautiful gatefold sleeve or vinyl with full colour inner bag.

Old Man Hands/ Let's Surf - Split seven inch single on Vindaloo coloured vinyl £3

	A split seven inch single on Sartorial Records with the Dash performing 'Let's Surf'. The link here is Terry Edwards who collaborates on both songs and rund Sartorial Records.

A split seven inch single on Sartorial Records with the Dash performing 'Let's Surf'. The link here is Terry Edwards who collaborates on both songs and rund Sartorial Records.

Vostok 5 CD 9 Songs £8

A very special record to accompany Darren's drawings of Russian Space Dogs as part of the Vostok 5 exhibition. The CD includes two new exclusive songs from Darren, 'A Breeze and a Little Piece of Coal' and 'Little Arrow and Little Squirrel' as well as space themed songs from Rotifer, Tigercats, Fever Dream and Hexicon.

The sleeve folds out into a numbered, screen printed poster. The record also features the Wave Pictures and members of Allo Darlin.

Lots more words, pictures and videos from Vostok 5 can be found here.

A video for 'Little Arrow, Little Squirrel' can be seen here.

The Green and the Grey Low Price CD 15 Songs £7

Sessions for the Essex Arms album were extremely long, resulting in many unused songs and versions of songs. Here 15 songs not included on Essex Are collected together at a budget price. Click on image for tracklisting.

Dead Media 2CD Re-issue

New 2 CD re-issue of Hefner's enigmatic, electronic swan song. 20 extra rare and unreleased songs including an exclusive remix by Daniel Miller. See full track listing by clicking on the image on the left.

First 100 orders come with 2 free Dead Media badges.

£12.50 inc postage and packing

Also available a new Hefner cloth bag featuring the Moog design from the Dead Media artwork (inside).

£6.50 includes Postage and packing.

Buy the Dead Media 2CD and Bag (and 1st 100 with free badges) for £16.50 inc postage and packing.

The Second Hangover Lounge ten inch vinyl EP - £8.50

Darren contributes an exclusive song 'Pixie Boots' to an 10 inch Vinyl EP bought to you by Darren's favourite club 'The Hangover Lounge'. Darren's song also features guitar from David Tattersall.

The EP also features exclusive songs from David Tattersall, Birdie, Pam Berry, White Town and Rozi Plain and comes in a hand made, hand printed sleeve.

First ten orders come with a free poster.

The Best of Hefner CD... £8.50 including postage and packaging.

The best place to start for newcomers. A personal selection by Darren of twenty of the best known Hefner Songs. This special low-price CD comes with a 12 page booklet, exclusive photographs and sleeve notes from band'd own Jack Hayter. The CD comes in a card slipcase.

January Songs Project - £15

Darren's extraordinary project whereby he wrote and recorded and released 31 songs in 31 days can be viewed along with all the videos and video diaries by click on the icon on the left.

All 31 songs can be downloaded along with 17 extra tracks from bandcamp for just £15. 45 tracks in total.

Essex Arms 12 inch Vinyl - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern.... £11.50 including postage and packaging.

The first album vinyl release from Darren since the French. The vinyl version of Darren's aclaimed album features exclusive photos on the inner sleeve and a code that links to a free download of the album.

Click on the icon on the left for more videos and details

Limited Edition Hefner Screen print designed by Darren Hayman .... £16 including postage and packaging.

Following the success earlier this year of Darren's cafe poster we are proud to present this high quality limited edition screen print.

The poster advertises Hefner's final show and is restricted to 150 numbered copies. Each copy is signed in pencil in the bottom right corner.

The A3 poster will be delivered rolled in a tube.

Essex Arms CD - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern.... £11.50 including postage and packaging.

The follow up to 2009s Pram Town this is an acoustic lament for the broken countryside. It's a love story set against the back ground of illicit car sex and dog fights. The expanded Secondary Modern line up features Jack Hayter, Emma-Lee Moss and bits of Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin and Fanfarlo.

Click on the icon on the left for more videos and details

Calling Out Your Name Again Vinyl EP - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern.... £5.50 including postage and packaging.

Darren sings a duet with Emma-Lee Moss (aka Emmy the Great). Buzzing strings and frenetic percussion accompany Darren and Emmy as they sing about love in abandoned cars.

This vinyl 7inch EP features 3 exclusive tunes Essex Arms, Beach Head and Until We Got Bored.

Click on the image to the left for more details.

Limited Edition Essex Arms CD + Calling Out Your Name Special Deal.... £14.50 including postage and packaging.

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Buy the Essex Arms CD and the Calling Out Your Name 7inch together for £14

Hefner - We Love the City ...£11.50

Hefner's most beloved album finally receives the full 2CD re-issue treatment. 'We Love the City' has been expanded to a mighty 39 tracks over two CDs.

Click on the image to the right to see the full track listing.

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We Love the City Special Offer

Upon 'We Love the City's original release Hefner played as an expanded line up for the John Peel show. All of the songs are preserved on 'Maida Vale'.

Buy 'We Love the City' and 'Maida Vale' together for just £16.50

Pram Town by Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern ...£11.50

The magnificent new album from Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern. 14 new songs including 'Losing My Glue' (written by Darren Hayman and David Tattersall), 'Big Fish' and 'Amy and Rachel'.

The album has had the best reviews of Darren's solo career and features a folk orchestra of violins, brass, harmoniums, mandolins and banjos. Click on the album cover to the left for downloads and videos etc.

SPECIAL OFFER!!!
Buy Pram Town together with a Pram Town ethical t-shirt (normally £16.50) for just £24

More details on sizes here

T-shirt size and colour

Bruce Springsteen Tribute album featuring Darren Hayman, The Wave Pictures and Amelia Fletcher... £11.50

'Better Friend' and 'Granted' T-shirts. Better quality, ethically produced. £16.50

Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee...£11.50 (For a limited period this CD comes with a free seven inch with a song not included on the album.)

A single by Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern available only through mail order.
Available on vinyl only ...£4.25

A mini-album of songs from the Table for One sessions on Track and Field
CD Only ...£6.50

A live album from Hefner; 10 songs recorded at the BBC for John Peel
Available on CD...£9.50

CD singles....£4.25
These singles are now deleted in the shops and when they're gone from here then they're gone for good

Pull Yourself Together CD Single Debut Too Pure release 3 extra songs! SOLD OUT!	The Sweetness Lies Within CD Single 3 extra songs (including Hello Kitten), colour photos by Darren inside.	The Hymn for the Cigarettes CD Single The Classic John Peel fave plus 3 other songs including a Beach Boys cover version!
I Took Her Love for Granted CD Single 2 Extra songs including 'To Hide a Little Thought' the Jonathon Richman songs.	Christian Girls CD Single Souped up version of early b-side with two exclusive songs.	Good Fruit CD1 Features 2 exclusive home recordings of the band by Darren, and a drawing by Antony
Good Fruit CD2 features 2 extra songs from the We Love the City sessions and another band portrait by Ant.	Greedy Ugly People CD1 features 2 more songs and more exclusive Antony artwork.	Greedy Ugly People CD2 features the under rated 'Everything's Falling Apart' and a David Soul cover version.
Alan Bean CD1 includes the excellent 'Horror Show' and 'A Better Man' a duet with Amelia Fletcher.	Alan Bean CD2 2 more exclusive songs from the Dead Media sessions.	Pornshoes by The French CD Single excellent 4 song EP showcasing the best of Darren and John's other band. SOLD OUT!

The Stereo Morphonium EP £4.25

The Stereo Morphonium
Darren's short lived synthesizer side project with Joel Neumatic. Strange retro bloopiness with Darren lyrics and vocals on two songs. 5 songs in total. Great artwork as usual.

The Hefner Brain EP...£6.50

The Hefner Brain
5 Song CD EP
The final Hefner release (in their life time at least). 5 songs including a radically different version of 'When the Angels Play their Drum Machines'. The sound combines the electronica of Dead Media with the big pop sound of We Love the City and show what could have been.

The Hefner Brain
5 Song 10inch EP
The vinyl version of this release is a real treat with different artwork featuring some classic drum machines.....mmmm gorgeous!

SOLD OUT!

CD Albums...£6 (except Boxing Hefner £10.50)
Due to the 2007/2008 re-issues of these albums we have dropped the price of the original issues of the Hefner and French. This will be your last chance to purchase any of these albums in this form in particular Boxing Hefner will not be released again in any form.

Breaking God's Heart CD Album The classic debut album from the original three piece line up! Ten songs including 'Sad Witch', 'The Sweetness Lies Within' and 'Love Will Destroy Us in the End'.	The Fidelity Wars CD Album Sold Out!	SOLD OUTxing Hefner CD Album A collection of b-sides, BBC tracks and exclusive songs. No re-release planned for this Hefner oddity. Includes 'Hello Kitten' and 'Lee Remick'.
We Love the City CD Album Hefner's best? Darren thinks so. 12 songs including 'The Day That Thatcher Dies' and 'Good Fruit'. SOLD OUT!	Dead Media CD Album Electronic experiments, shared vocals, instrumentals. Hefner's last album was definitely their oddest. Includes many undiscovered classics like 'Junk' , 'Home' and 'Alan Bean'.	Local Information - The French CD Album Darren and Johns' Electronic masterpiece, made after the demise of Hefner. It contains some of Darren's best songs and is Darren's own favourite after 'We Love the City'.

7 inch Singles...£3.25

Pull Yourself Together 7 inch single Debut single release on Too Pure features exclusive b-side 'Christ'. SOLD OUT!	Sweetness Lies Within 7 inch single Second single from 'Breaking God's Heart' with the arguably superior b-side 'Hello Kitten'. SOLD OUT!	The Hymn for the Cigarettes 7 inch single B-side is 'Grandmother Dies', unavailable elsewhere. SOLD OUT!
Christian Girls 7 inch single B-side song is 'We Don't Care...' unavailable elsewhere. SOLD OUT!	Good Fruit 7 inch single Ttwo remixes of 'Good Fruit' by Piano Magic and The Wisdom of Harry. There are no plans to re-release these tracks. Limited Stock. SOLD OUT!	Half a Life 7 inch single A split seven inch with Murry the Hump. Their song is 'The House That Used to be a Ship'. Limited stock. SOLD OUT !
Alan Bean 7 inch single Remixed by Rothko and German electronic band Munit. There are no plans to re-release these tracks.	Trouble Kid 7 inch single Remixed by Darren himself and Appliance. There are no plans to re-release these tracks.	Porn Shoes/Gabriel in the Airport 7 inch single The one and only single by the magnificent French! Both songs are favourites in Darren's current live set.

12 inch vinyl £10.50
Once again, when these sell out they are unlikely to be available again on vinyl.

Breaking God's Heart Vinyl
Big and gorgeous. Put it on your gramophone!

Dead Media
12 inch vinyl
Double gorgeous I tell you!!

SOLD OUT!

The French - Local Information
12 inch vinyl
Look at the pretty horses!

We Love the City Poster...£7

Full colour A1 poster, delivered rolled in a card tube.

Classic Hefner and French T-shirts...very few sizes left, may reprint soon...