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English songwriter and former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman reveals new video for “Chantry, Somerset” from his forthcoming new album Thankful Villages Vol II, due out on 26 May via Rivertones.

Watch ‘Woodend, Northamptonshire,’ the latest video from English songwriter and former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman’s forthcoming album Thankful Villages Volume 2, which is due out on Rivertones on 26 May.

A year after his critically acclaimed debut album, Ralegh Long returns with a subtle new E.P, We Are In The Fields. This gentle, restrained E.P picks up where Hoverance left off, listen in full here and watch the new video directed by Darren Hayman.

Darren Hayman has revealed the next video for his ambitious folk project, Thankful Villages. It was filmed in Stocklinch, Somerset, watch it here and read about the folk tale of two sisters who are both in love with the vicar and have churches built for him.

Part one – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Alasdair Roberts, Anna & Elizabeth, Darren Hayman, Marry Waterson, LAU, SImpson Cutting Kerr, The Rheingans Sisters, This is the Kit, The Weather Station, Trembling Bells, Ryley Walker and more.

The ability to turn a stream of mundane details into something inexplicably heartbreaking, with little but a softly strummed guitar as an accompaniment. This is Hayman’s gift – the ability to elevate the quotidian to heights that are almost sacred.

In association with Caught by the River we have a special giveaway to their upcoming Caught by the River Social Club in London – featuring Darren Hayman, Richard Skelton, July Skies and more.

Darren Hayman is to release his first purely solo album on November 6 via Fika Recordings. The album, titled Florence, is named after the city in which it was written and recorded. You can listen to ‘Nuns Run The Apothecary’ here.

Our Song of the Day is “May Day”, the first single to be taken from Darren Hayman’s powerful new collection of songs based based on William Morris’s Chants for Socialists

Our Song of the Day is from Darren Hayman, it’s from his recent very limited edition Dog EP…one for lovers of our furry friends. Listen to ‘A House Without Dogs’.

There’s not a dull moment over the twenty tracks of The Wave Pictures latest: City Forgiveness. A distinctly British way mode of artistic creation…handed down to David Tattersall from Philip Larkin via Morrissey…

Darren Hayman announces his new EP ‘Blue House’ made especially for the Indie Label Market. Listen to it now and download the free track ‘When the School Sold Its Fields’.

Listen to the latest Simple Folk Radio show hosted by Dillon and featuring a session from Darren Hayman and The Short Parliament to mark the release of ‘Bugbears’ on Fika Recordings.

Darren Hayman has shortened his Long Parliament and returns with a new album of seventeenth century folk songs called Bugbears, which is due out on Fika Recordings in July.