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\nI discovered the UK band Hefner sometime in 2000, when a friend pointed me at their song “I stole a Bride<\/cite>“, one of the few pop songs to be written about the Trojan War and the abduction of Helena by Paris. I quite like their sound, sort of indie but with a bit more bite than a band Like say Belle and Sebastian<\/cite> and clever but not too pretentious lyrics. Their best album was We Love the City<\/cite>, released in 2000, sort of a thematic ode to London, which sort of captures my feelings about London as well.\n<\/p>\n \nThe band is no longer active, but their site<\/a> is still up. The best part of it is the discography<\/a>, with extensive notes by Darren Hayman, the driving force behind the band. I wish more bands took the trouble to do something like this.\n<\/p>\n \nDarren Hayman since then has started a new band, The french<\/a> with one of his Hefner mates, which has abandonded the indie sound Hefner had for most of its existence, instead going for a more early electronica feel. A sample of their work can be downloaded<\/a> from their site, again something I wouldn’t mind more other bands doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I discovered the UK band Hefner sometime in 2000, when a friend pointed me at their song “I stole a Bride“, one of the few pop songs to be written about the Trojan War and the abduction of Helena by Paris. I quite like their sound, sort of indie but with a bit more bite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hefner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}