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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2h

A completely free video from my Patreon about my song ‘I Taught You How to Dance’. I post these kind of things often on there as well as two free songs a month. www.patreon.com/posts/140671...
I play Ships piano in full on 21st October www.wegottickets.com/fikarecordings

How I Wrote ‘I Taught You How To Dance’ | Darren Hayman’s Never-ending Singles Club

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 5h

I just did my first bird/beer mat commission. IE someone saying , can I have a sparrow on that mat? This is ok, I could do this. They would cost a little more because I’d be working to a spec. But with that in mind if you wanted to commission me, here are 25 beer mats you could choose for your bird.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 6h

A Skylark painted onto an Oliver’s cigarettes drinks mat from the 1950s.
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 8h

A Longtailed Tit painted onto an XL potato crisps drinks mat from the 1950s.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 19h

On my Patreon I post videos about the writing and meaning behind my songs. So as to simultaneously promote my Patreon and my show on the 21st October (where I play my album Ship’s Piano). I have made this video free to all of you! I hope you like it.

www.patreon.com/posts/140671...

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 22h

Is it on ECM?

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 22h

You didn’t realise you needed a Puffin painted onto a Players Richmond cigarettes drinks mat from the 1950s but you do in fact need a Puffin painted onto a Players Richmond cigarettes drinks mat from the 1950s.

Don’t worry. I have one for you.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

A Wren painted onto a Senior Service tobacco drinks mat from the 1950s.

You know you want it.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @johnrivers.bsky.social, @aquatics64.bsky.social, @gasbirder.bsky.social who each win a pack of my TV Crime Penguin Book postcards. Nobody guessed all 15, but I think the first was pretty hard to "crack". Here they all are, and now available to buy: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

Got a plumber to turn up. He fixed my boiler. Didn’t charge me the earth.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

Also, is the bloke from
Will and Grace the most famous not famous person. Like if there’s a cheap piece of crap tv series made in America with absolutely no-one you know, he’ll usually be the lead.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

I think I might be at that point. I’d quite like the pilot to survive one of these just once. The pilot always gets a tree through him and dies in the first night. Always.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

I quite like it.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the cast took acting lessons from an AI that had only listened to the Archers.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

I will watch almost anything which starts with a plane crash. Just love a plane crash survival story. Love all of them. But Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue really is a big bag of balls.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

It has been pointed out to me that Ship’s Piano isn’t on Spotify. To rectify this slightly I’ve made the album completely free on Bandcamp.

darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...

I’ve also made the vinyl TEN POUNDS on www.hefnet.com (plus a little postage)

Ship’s Piano gig on 21st October

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

Just sending you a bit of love. Here it is.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

Will be offered to Patreon and then up for sale tomorrow probably

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

The pub or bar makes me seen. Its kind of performative and egotistical but it stops me doom
Scrolling and wasting time. I genuinely get more done

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

Erm four birds to a pint maybe? It may look like the workings of a functioning alcoholic, and it is, but actually it really slows down my drinking . A pint can last 90minutes

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

Some progress

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

Peak Hayman

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

Today years old when I realised etc

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll email you with the names etc and yeah, just cried in front of my doctor and said I couldn’t take it anymore basically

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 2d

I have some prescribed medication that has changed my life

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