On OLD MAN Darren Hayman serves up the best bits of Prince, Dr Feelgood, the Laughing Clowns and Hefner in a pint of POP that’ll be lodged in your noggin til a week next Thursday… once it’s there, it ain’t budging, so you might as well strap on your air guitar and pour yourself a chaser of TUNE… in fact, just take the shade off that standard lamp and sing your way through the third spin, adding your own grunts and moans as appropriate (and they are ALL appropriate)… by the fourth round, as you collapse onto the sofa of SONG to soak up the sax solo (I know, I KNOW!), OLD MAN will be tattooed on your temporal lobe, permanent, forever… and ever… amen…
It’s REALLY good
OLD MAN was recorded in a day in Sidcup Working Man’s club; Ian Button arrived at 9:00 to set up, Darren and the Long Parliament arrived at 10:00 to get recording, the cameras started rolling, the bar opened, the magic happened, and by 5:00 we had a video, a photoshoot, and two HITS for wiaiwya-7777777…
wiaiwya-7777777 is a series of seven 7" singles released during 2013, one on each day of the week, and always on the 7th of the month, in the 7 colours of the rainbow, with exclusive tunes from 7 of the most exciting indie, electronic, folk and alternative bands around... oh, they come in editions of 777 too...
the bands and release dates are:
Thursday 7th March (yellow) – Jeff Mellin
Sunday 7th April (orange) – Hong Kong in the 60s
Tuesday 7th May (violet) – Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
Friday 7th June (red) - Sourpatch
Wednesday 7th August (blue) - Pups
Saturday 7th September (indigo) - Comet Gain
Monday 7th October (green) - the Middle Ones
there's lots more information here -
wiaiwya-7777777.blogspot.co.uk
released May 7, 2013