Darren Hayman & The Long Parliament

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DARREN HAYMAN & THE LONG PARLIAMENT
Best known as the singer-songwriter of the phenomenally successful and much-loved Hefner, Darren Hayman is now six or seven albums into an increasingly idiosyncratic career path; writing the theme tune and staring in a Spanish Sitcom, playing a 30 people capacity show in a 100 year old paper mache observatory and playing possibly Britiain’s most remote festival on the Isle of Eigg. Darren is also writing the best tunes of his career; increasingly complex and mature songs. In the latest incarnation of his constantly morphing backing band he has gathered together a set of musicians with the chops to do justice to his increasingly complex and mature songs; a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop. Following last year's January Songs project and his solo album of subtle, drifting piano ballads The Ship’s Piano, Darren continues his incredibly productive streak with an instrumental album devoted to London's Lidos and the third release in his Essex Trilogy, The Violence, a double album of strangely beautiful, haunting songs about the Essex Witch Trials of the 17th Century.
“London's laureate of sexual dysfunction, discomfort, and dog-eared under-achievement... the match of Ray Davies, or any of the quintessentially English masters.” (The Guardian)
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