Hefner
Bloody hell, it's rammed! And when homecoming anti-heroes Hefner burst straight into 'Hello Kitten', the best wank anthem since 'Turning Japanese', it soon becomes apparent that Darren Hayman is going to be struggling to make himself heard over...
Good fruit
Hefner Good Fruit (Too Pure) Apart from mild gangster activity and the increasing encroachment of more and more kebab shops, not much changes up in London's fashionable indie ghetto Dalston. Hefner 's main man Darren Hayman...
Edinburgh The Venue
The tunes? They shamble. The lyrics? They ramble. And the audience? They sigh like lustful librarians before lighting the first of a dozen pre-coital cigarettes. Hefner 's janglesome muse may be ostensibly tethered to the bedsit sink, but...
Boxing Hefner
They may not change your life, these gentle souls of the jangle, but they enhance it just enough to smother life's tensions in a milky balm. Which is something of a trademark for lovelorn Peel -kings Hefner , and one which lends this compilation...
London WC1 Notre Dame Hall
In the midst of this glorious apocalyptic summer, Hefner are found onstage at the Notre Dame Hall looking like they've just endured the longest, hottest and most irritating car journey. They stumble on with wobbly legs and what looks like...
Hefner : Hymn for the cigarettes, The
Or, possibly, not. Part-time indie saviours Hefner suffer from that most Wedding Present of conditions: they're a bit hit or miss. 'Hymn For The Alcohol' was a gambolling lurch, disarmingly cute in its sodden naivety. 'Hymn For The...
The Fidelity Wars
Girls, they permeate Hefner's songs like cheap perfume. Girls with cigarettes, lounging in unmade beds. Girls who drink whiskey. Girls who never, ever love the way that they are loved. Like Arab Strap , Hefner reside in the realm of the...
London Highbury Garage
Charles Atlas would almost have been proud. Here's DARREN HAYMAN , weasel-faced singer with London new-new-romantics Hefner , and it seems he's had the sand kicked in his face on a regular basis almost since birth. However, while Atlas...
