Darren Hayman - The Ship's Piano

DARREN HAYMAN presents "The Ship's Piano" as a free download, the title track from his forthcoming full-length, solo album on Fortuna POP! (out 17 October). He also unveils the new video for the track, which is made up of images of different pianos over the ages submitted by fans.

Darren Hayman "The Ship's Piano"
VIDEO - http://www.vimeo.com/28706764
MP3 Download link here: http://www.fortunapop.com/free_download.php?id=32

More info here: www.hefnet.com
NEW PHOTOS HERE: http://www.hefnet.com/Publicity.htm

DATES:

Darren will be playing a few intimate piano concerts over the coming months, with two dates at the Albany in London and on 13 November at the Unitarian Church in Brighton. Full gig listings below (including the Vostok 5 show next week and the Fortuna POP! Anniversary at the Scala in November).

Tues 18 October - The Albany, London (intimate piano set)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/135106
Weds 19 October - The Albany, London (intimate piano set)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/135118
Thur 3 November - Scala, London (Fortuna POP! 15th Anniversary)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131297
Sun 13 November - Unitarian Church, Brighton (grand piano set)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/132273

Best known as the singer-songwriter of the phenomenally successful and much-loved Hefner, Darren Hayman is now six 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 the constantly morphing Secondary Modern 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 his January Songs project Darren continues one of his busiest years with a brand new solo album of subtle, drifting piano ballads called The Ship’s Piano out in October.

“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)

VIDEO FOR "I Know I F*ed Up" with Elizabeth Morris HERE http://www.vimeo.com/18643115

Elephant Stone to Release New Single

Elephant Stone to Release New Single on 10 October


As a preview of their upcoming sophomore album (to be released spring 2012), Canada's Elephant Stone will be releasing a two-song digital single on 10 October. The lead-off track is the 12-string guitar symphony of "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin" b/w the 8.5 minute psychedelic opus "The Sea of Your Mind". A free download is available at www.elephantstonemusic.com.

Elephant Stone is the brainchild of bassist/sitarist Rishi Dhir, a founding member of Montreal pop/psyche veterans the High Dials, and sitar player for basically every outlaw psyche band out there (Black Angels, The Earlies, Hopewell, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Soundtrack of Our Lives).

In 2009, Elephant Stone released their debut album, The Seven Seas. Perfectly melding Rishi's obsession with the perfect pop song and the trippiest raga, The Seven Seas was warmly embraced by the global indie-scene and long listed for the coveted 2009 Polaris Music Prize in Canada. 2010 saw the release of The Glass Box EP, a 5-song suite of inspired power-pop/psyche classics, a supporting slot on the Brian Jonestown Massacre's North American tour, and an inaugural tour of Europe with sold-out dates in London and Berlin.

Elephant Stone are currently planning their biggest tour yet that will take them to California, Iceland and the UK.

Tour Dates

Oct 15: Reykjavik, Hresso (Iceland Airwaves - Canadian Blast Showcase - daytime)
Oct 15: Reykjavik, Tjarnarbio (Iceland Airwaves - evening showcase)
Oct 18: London, The Lexington (w/ the Koolaid Electric Company, the See See, and the Hall of Mirrors).
Oct 19: Brighton, Jam Brighton
Oct 20: Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
Oct 21: Carlisle, The Brickyard
Oct 22: Edinburgh, The Bongo Club
Oct 23: Glasgow, 13th Note Cafe
Oct 25: Nottingham, Chameleon Arts Cafe
Oct 26: Liverpool, The Kazimier
Oct 27: York, Stereo
Oct 28: Manchester, Dulcimer

Free download of "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin": www.elephantstonemusic.com
Hi res cover: http://www.box.net/shared/gpsf9v4y9854k1k7xyv6
Hi res band photos: http://www.elephantstonemusic.com/media/photos/
Soundcloud stream: http://snd.sc/rkJS7p

I'm So Unclean - Evans the Death

Evans the Death
I’m So Unclean
Fortuna POP!
7” | EP | Download
6 September 2011

Following in the footsteps of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Allo Darlin’, Evans The Death will be releasing their debut album via Fortuna POP! early next year. Before that though, they release their eagerly anticipated second single 'I’m So Unclean' on 6 September.

Following the release of their instantly acclaimed debut single ‘Threads’, and a series of celebrated live shows around the country, Evans the Death have been given extensive airtime on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music, as well being made John Kennedy’s ‘Xposure Big One’ on XFM. ‘I’m So Unclean’ documents with dry humour and bathos the contraction of the world and its contours which characterises the experience of personal breakdown: ‘My dressing gown is my choice of apparel for this season/so I stare at the cat for a while/the minutes have changed into miles, and I’m too tired to walk…’ Breathless guitars, a devastating and thunderous bassline, and soaring unraveling vocals combine to hint at something akin to the Gun Club meets Prolapse meets Elastica but arriving somewhere else entirely; a hyper-smart searing pop single which can’t fail to ratchet up the excitement as to what the band will do next.

http://www.myspace.com/evansthedeath

Fortuna POP! Celebrates 15 Years this year!

*Fortuna POP! presents*
FORTUNA POP! - FIFTEEN YEARS OF FUN

*Tues 1st Nov The Primitives + Bearsuit + Monnone Alone (ex-The Lucksmiths) + Special Guests*

*Wed 2nd Nov Crystal Stilts + Comet Gain + Shrag + Evans The Death*

*Thu 3rd Nov Allo Darlin' + Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern + Tender Trap + The Ladybug Transistor*


While people gather around bonfires and swirl sparklers in the air, the first week of November this year will be remembered for something other than Guy Fawkes night. Birthdays usually mean presents but this year as Fortuna POP! celebrate their 15th Birthday, they’re giving us the gift of music. Again.

They’re going to celebrate with three nights in a row at the Scala in London on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, four bands every night, doors at 6:30pm. The full line-up thus far includes: Crystal Stilts, Allo Darlin', The Primitives, Comet Gain, Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern, Bearsuit, Shrag, The Ladybug Transistor, Tender Trap, Evans The Death and Mark Monnone from The Lucksmiths’ solo project Monnone Alone. More info on most of these artists can be found on the Fortuna POP! website: http://www.fortunapop.com/

There will be guest DJs and free aftershow parties at The Lexington every night too. Fifteen years of fun. Put it in yr pop diary.

Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth out September on Wichita

Wichita Recordings are pleased to announce the new album from Meg Baird, best known for her stunning songwriting, guitarwork and vocal contributions to the US folk band Espers. Her second solo album Seasons on Earth will be released on 26 September. There are plans for some intimate live dates around the release date.

There’s a rare intimacy in Meg Baird’s music. She shares secrets, she breaks your heart, she tells you how to fix it. Her second album Seasons On Earth is a beautiful, moody masterpiece of understatement—part wanderer, part flower, part assassin—moving stealthily from light to shadow and back again.

http://www.megbaird.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pennsylvaniawildlife