Antony Harding/Darren Hayman - The Bands That Don't Reform/A Soft Place

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4...according to our Business Lady on Fri 11 Sep, 2009.

Got myself a limited split 7" single on Black Kitten from Darren Hayman and Antony Harding. Darren Hayman's contribution is a little indie pop plod-along entitled 'The Bands That Don't Reform'. It's got all the traits of a classically trained twee indie single that charts the of the band on tour with a sub plot implying an out and out love of bands that don't reform. It's a steady number that kinda passes me by. On the B-side we've got 'A Soft Place' by Antony Harding. Again, this is a proper twee-o indie pop single in the vein of Belle and Sebastian. Hardings voice is tiny small and the instrumentation is almost whispered. On the plus side, I really like the bass guitar sound, it's well vintage sounding and very tasteful.

Antony Harding and Darren Hayman used to be in Hefner. Hefner did five times more Peel sessions then Blur and owned twice as many synthesizers as Radiohead.

Antony has been Darren's best friend for most of the time they have known each other but not whilst they were in a band together. They were both crazy when they were in Hefner. This is reason number 14 in Darren's “List of Reasons Why Hefner Won't Reform”.

Darren has written a song called The Bands That Don't Reform and it's about how crazy they both used to be. Antony isn't crazy anymore, he lives in Malmö with his beautiful wife and children.

Antony and Darren have a friend called Joel who says Antony's music is better to “make out” to than Darren's.

This isn't just a split single. Both Antony and Darren play on each others songs. They really should do this more often.

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