15: Episode Fourteen; Darren Hayman

In The Spotlight: Interviews · Jun 9, 2026 · 1h 8m

For the latest episode of In The Spotlight podcast, Bill Cummings is joined by Darren Hayman (Hefner / New Starts / The French). This week he starts a series of re-issues and releases with ‘The Violence’ (Expanded Edition). They talk about the reissue of The Violence and the parallels you can draw between 17th-century English Civil Wars and the East Anglian Witch Trials and how it's still relevant in how society vilifies marginalised people. They also discuss Hayman's restless creativity, which takes in music, art, painting, his Thankful Villages project, Hefner, patreon, songwriting and much…