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Darren Hayman
United Kingdom • b. 1970-12-01
Darren Hayman is credited on 180 releases across 89 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1990–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
180
Pressings credited
89
Albums
4
Decades active
15
In collections
Biography
Darren Hayman (born 1 December 1970) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, who debuted as the writer, lead singer, and guitarist in Hefner. Since Hefner disbanded in 2002, Hayman has had a prolific solo career releasing numerous albums under his own name while releasing music with The French, New Starts, and others. He has worked with The Wave Pictures, producing an album for them, directing three of their music videos and employing them as his backing band. In January, 2011, Hayman recorded and released a song every day in the month of January, working with several collaborators. Hayman also paints and has exhibited his work at exhibitions about animals in space, racing dogs and other topics.
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Credited work
180 releases · 89 albums · active 1990–2025
- Performance · 438
- Other credits · 64
- Engineering · 43
- Production · 11
Studios: Soup Studio · Roundhouse Studios · Maida Vale Studios · Café Eric
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
We Love The City
2000
One Thousand Years Of Billy Mahonie
1999
You Will Not Die
2022
I Can Travel Through Time
2020
Chants For Socialists
2015
Florence
2015
Bugbears
2013
The Violence
2012
Lido
2012
Essex Arms
2010
Calling Out Your Name Again
2010
The Fidelity Wars
1999
Breaking God's Heart
1998
The Ship's Piano
2011
Pram Town
2009
Frequent collaborators
- Hefner (2)
- Papernut Cambridge
- The Wave Pictures
- Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern
- The French
- Allo Darlin'
- The Hayman Kupa Band
- The Wisdom Of Harry
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