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Hefner were the British indie rock and "urban folk" band. It move from either astir 1996 until 2002; since then it stand played together single when, for the tribute to the DJ John Peel, who was the heavy supporter of theirs.
Band members
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History
Hefner began as the survive b& around 1995 and when many line higher changes, became a solo design of Darren Hayman. Within 1996 he recorded the tape for Sticky Records (known as The Devotion Chamber) on which a lot instruments were played by Darren himself & his friend from either art school, Antony Harding, sang backing vocals.
A proper debut of Hefner as a band get on April of 1997 when the Seven" single "A Better Friend" (limited to 500 vinyl copies) was released by Boogle Wonderland. The single featured Antony on drums, and John Morrison (from Rhatigan) played bass. Shortly after the release the record label Too Pure offer a record deal to Darren—who extended the offer to Antony and John.
After a few singles, Hefner recorded ''Breaking God's Heart, an album that was recorded in low-fi fashion (e.g. all songs are first or second takes). Darren Hayman has declared that from all the Hefner albums this first one is the one he is least interested in re-listening to. Unlike some fans, who laud its folk-like low fidelity as pretentiousness and interesting, Darren seems to see Breaking God's Heart as having too much potentiality, which was not actualized.
The Fidelity Wars would be their next record (with the recent addition of multi-instrumentalist Jack Hayter); a darker (even tortured) collection of songs. In the official website of the band Darren has explained that all of the songs gravitate around the concept of breaking up.
Hefner had to that point recorded a large number of singles and EPs; Boxing Hefner collected some of the tracks from them that had not appeared on the previous albums – often in new recordings – as well as some unreleased songs.
We Love the City marked a pivotal point in which the band decided to make a change in direction. In contrast with previous records, which had older songs, all of the compositions on We Love the City were made for this record.
Dead Media, released in 2001, continues the interest that Hefner had shown in exploring new ways. Dead Media'' is certainly different from previous records in the sense of its electronic weight, an interest that led Darren to eventually create The French.
After the band's final gig at the ICA in London on 10 December 2001 and the release of an EP called The Hefner Brain the following March, the band took a "break", which has proved to be permanent. Since then Hefner have reformed for one night only, for the "Keeping It Peel" tribute show, which marked the death of one of their biggest supporters, Radio 1 DJ John Peel. In 2005 a t-shirt was released that read "Hefner, Britawithin’s Largest Microscopic B& (1997-2002)", and in an interview Darren Hayman said "there is there are no, no reunion aforethought".[http://www.hefnet.com/interview.htm]
In 2005, after a legal dispute between Darren Hayman and Too Pure, the rights to all the band's Too Pure recordings have reverted to Darren. As a result, the band plan to release a best-of album and Catfight, a 2 CD collection of 43 unreleased songs. All of the band's albums will also be reissued with bonus tracks.
Discography
Singles and EPs
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