He has regularly worked with The Wave Pictures, producing an album for them, directing three of their music videos and briefly employing them as his backing band.

Hayman first made a name for himself as the lead singer and main songwriter in UK indie rock band Hefner, who were big favourites of the late John Peel.

[6] Hayman's debut solo album Table for One was released in 2006 by Track & Field, receiving a five star review in The Guardian.

[8] The album featured guest appearances from singer-songwriter John Howard and Pete Astor (of The Loft and The Weather Prophets fame).

[12] However, Lee and Trought do not appear on the album, which instead features David Tattersal from The Wave Pictures and fiddle player Dan Mayfield.

[18] It is an album concerning Essex on a larger scale than Pram Town, with songs about factories closing, dogging hot spots and the littered countryside, featuring guest appearances from Emmy the Great and Fanfarlo.

[21][22] The songs featured different collaborators on different days, including Elizabeth Morris from Allo Darlin', The Wave Pictures, Jack Hayter and Ballboy.

[2] Following the January project, Hayman curated the Vostok 5 exhibition at the Outside world Gallery in London which ran from 1 to 7 September 2011.

[23] The exhibition was "for people who love rockets and animals" according to Hayman and featured songs and paintings by Hayman, Paul Rains (Allo Darlin'), Duncan Barrett (Tigercats), Robert Rotifer (Rotifer) and Sarah Lippet (Fever Dream) about animals and humans that have travelled to space, including soviet space dogs, Alexei Leonov, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev.

[41] This contained, alongside "Henrietta Maria" from The Violence, songs about three other queens; Elizabeth I, Lady Jane Grey and Eleanor Of Aquitaine.

[45] The shows were all themed and featured support slots from a variety of performers, such as Chris T-T, The Pictish Trail, Robin Ince and Stewart Lee, amongst many others.

[46][47][48][49] Hayman directed two more videos for The Wave Pictures in October 2013; "Lisbon", which stars the fathers of the band members in place of their sons, and "Red Cloud Road".

[52][53] 2014 activities included Hayman contributing seven paintings of greyhounds that had raced at the Walthamstow Dog Track to the Zoology exhibition at the E17 Art House in May.

Hayman plays the synthesizer for The Great Electric, alongside band members Malcolm Doherty, Rob Hyde, Duncan Hemphill and Pete Gofton.

[62] On 3 June 2016 Hayman released the first of three albums of work inspired by and written in-situ at Thankful Villages - settlements in England and Wales from which all their then-members of the armed forces survived World War I.