The Hayman Kupa Band

When <a href="spotify:artist:7z1zIVirda43ep7aMRkXYH" data-name="Darren Hayman">Darren Hayman</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:6B4yZT4AZbcEH90zluBhTK" data-name="Hefner">Hefner</a>) and <a href="spotify:artist:4qupoDHvqcMr5QGVwSQtRL" data-name="Emma Kupa">Emma Kupa</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:5Og3q0qVY4Yao1STDWgOZl" data-name="Standard Fare">Standard Fare</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:4xBSK0hu7wFitcyc1Zjg8U" data-name="Mammoth Penguins">Mammoth Penguins</a>) decided to make a duets record, we knew the results would be great, but we didn’t expect them to be THIS great. Gathering together a rhythm section consisting of Michael Wood (<a href="spotify:artist:5gEkT4nGcXjZRbQKpvVlmW" data-name="Whoa Melodic">Whoa Melodic</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:1oPQT1dF0pbc72mZ798TWb" data-name="Singing Adams">Singing Adams</a>) on bass and Cat Loye (<a href="spotify:artist:3wHRmRiphvCIXRYZJSdpFJ" data-name="Fever Dream">Fever Dream</a>) on drums, The Hayman Kupa band create brash, bold and effortlessly melodic power pop. Sharing writing duties and sometimes singing each other’s words, lines are blurred and creativity explored in a wonderfully exuberant collection of songs. The album, recorded in three days at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate, is an exploration of relationships and, at its heart, it’s the sound of a friendship being made.
Darren explains further:
It’s only happened a few times but just once or twice I have seen someone on stage and thought, “I want to be in a band with them.” But I thought it the first time I saw Emma playing with her magnificent and under-rated band Standard Fare.
They say imitation is a form of flattery and I was glad that I noticed when I wrote the song “Boy, Look at What you Can’t Have Now” that it sounded like the sort of thing Emma might write. I covered up my theft by asking her to sing on it.