When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 June 2022
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re excited to be hosting back-to-back nights of Darren Hayman playing songs from four classic Hefner albums!

Darren Hayman is a thoughtful, concise and detailed songwriter. He eschews the big, the bright and the loud for the small, twisted and lost. Throughout his prolific solo career he has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly.

For this back-to-back visit to Gullivers, Darren will play songs from four Hefner albums: Breaking God’s Heart and The Fidelity Wars on Wednesday 29 June, and We Love the City and Dead Media on Thursday 30 June.

Hefner’s first records attracted the attention of cult indie label Too Pure and the broadcasting legend John Peel. The band’s first album, Breaking God’s Heart, mixed raw, sexual words with religious imagery and earned the band a loyal, intelligent following in the UK, Europe and the USA. The second album, The Fidelity Wars, shifted the songwriting focus to the personal and remains a fan favourite.

Hefner’s third album, We Love the City, became the critical and commercial highlight of their short, intense career. By this time Hayman had started to develop a sharp, incisive voice. The song narratives now took place in the toilets and kitchens of everyday British homes. Hayman sang about the thread on skirt hems and the hairline cracks in the china as well as the tears on cheeks. Hefner’s fourth and final album, Dead Media, presented an erratic creative left turn. Largely leaving their guitars in their cases, the band made a bizarre, stuttering bleeping confection on ancient analogue synths.

WEDNESDAY 29 (Breaking God’s Heart and The Fidelity Wars): Buy tickets now. Tickets are also available from Dice.fm, WeGotTickets.com, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0871 220 0260.

THURSDAY 30 (We Love the City and Dead Media): Buy tickets now. Tickets are also available from Dice.fm, WeGotTickets.com, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0871 220 0260.

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