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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Are we not Hayman? First hearing of new LP track

Article written by Paul M - Aug 2, 2012

Today we offer up the chance to hear 'We Are Not Evil’ the first song to be released from Darren Hayman’s forthcoming album. The Violence is due out on Fortuna POP! on 5 November, and is a 20 song double LP chronicling the 17th Century Essex Witch Trials during the English Civil Wars.

Between 1644 and 1646, approximately 300 women were executed for witchcraft in the eastern counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

"Evil never thinks of itself as such, and people can act cruelly when frightened," says Hayman "I assume that Matthew Hopkins, the self-named 'Witch Finder General' believed, on some level, that he was acting on God's instruction."

The album from which ‘We Are Not Evil’ is taken apparently utilises intricate woodwind scores, trembling strings and destroyed church organs.

"It’s about how violence frightens us and how fear just leads to greater violence," says Hayman.

The first live performance of many of these songs with Darren's new backing band The Long Parliament will occur later this month:

Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament + Pete Astor + The Understudies
Wednesday 29th August @ The Lexington, London
Ticket link http://www.wegottickets.com/event/177591

Links:
http://www.hefnet.com/