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 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).

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.

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