Darren Hayman & The Long Parliament • The Violence (Expanded Edition) • 2026

On June 12th, Darren Hayman (Hefner / New Starts / The French) launches a series of re-issues and releases with ‘The Violence’ (Expanded Edition), a highly ambitious and beautifully layered Folk album about the 17th-century English Civil Wars and the East Anglian Witch Trials. Tragically still relevant in how society vilifies marginalised people, the original 2012 release was praised by The Quietus, Stewart Lee (The Sunday Times), The Line of Best Fit, Q Magazine, Mojo, NME, The Skinny, Drowned in Sound, Uncut, KLOF Mag, the BBC, and many more outlets.  As part of a wider effort to fill the gaps in his missing catalogue, this expanded album is accompanied by its companion EP, ‘The Four Queens,’ also made available again digitally for the first time in years.