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Darkness Single Covers
Posted By lssilver on Thursday, October 28 2004 at 8:28 AM
Thanks to the D-Zine
Darkness UK Tracklisting
Posted By lssilver on Thursday, October 28 2004 at 8:24 AM
CD1
1. Darkness
2. Touch
CD2
1. Darkness
2. Random Blinking Lights
3. Darkness (dp Behind the Darkness Remix)
4. Darkness Video
Australian Darkness Release Delayed
Posted By lssilver on Monday, October 25 2004 at 11:10 AM
The release of Darkness has been delayed until November 22 for Australian fans.
Thanks to Marc from AccessAllAreas.net.au
Darkness Video
Posted By lssilver on Saturday, October 23 2004 at 5:31 PM
Head over to http://public.darrenhayesmusic.com/home.php to watch the Brand New video for Darkness!
News from the D-Zine
Posted By lssilver on Friday, October 22 2004 at 4:54 PM
22nd October 2004 - Darkness Video
The Darkness video has been completed and will be played in the UK this friday 22.10.04 on "First Play Friday" on The Box as well as MTV's Hits "Sneak Peak" and "TRL".
Darkness Remixes
Posted By lssilver on Friday, October 15 2004 at 4:07 PM
Darkness (Mark Dynamix & Jaytech's Deep Glow Remix)
"...We have also completed a remix of Darren Hayes' next single from his latest album. It's called "Darkness" and the original is a downtempo eletronica ballad (if there's such a thing!) We have put an electro tech-house spin on it bringing the tempo up to 126 bpm and making it more club friendly. I'm really proud of the work we've done on this, considering the short time we had to produce a remix & Darren has heard it and loves it, so all is looking good for a release on the cd single and vinyl versions when it comes out on Sony in November..."
Source: Sony BBS and http://www.markdynamix.com/
12th October 2004 - Darren to visit Russia
Posted By lssilver on Wednesday, October 13 2004 at 4:26 PM
Darren is back in London this week after spending the last two weeks in New York. The video for "Darkness" has been filmed and should be ready for us to see in the next fortnight!
Darren is off to Russia at the end of this week for four days. The main aim for his trip is to be a presenter at the MTV Russia Awards. The ceremony will be held at the Kremlin on October 16 2004.
While in Russia, Darren is expected to perform "Pop!ular" on MTV's TRL and interviews with Neon, Bravo, Hello, Play and Europa Plus. So keep an ear and an eye out for those.
Source: D-Zine
11th October 2004 - Darren's Diary
Posted By lssilver on Monday, October 11 2004 at 4:02 PM
So I'm in New York City... It's Saturday and I'm still recovering from shooting the video for Darkness. As with the album photo shoot, we set up shop again in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania - in the presidential suite - which
has become in many ways the visual 'backdrop' to the stories I have wanted to tell.
It's an incredible space because it has this kind of run down, desperate feel to it - yet an old world kind of sophistication. Like a tarnished luxury that once was. However you want to describe it, it's undeniable there's a sense of history and melancholy on the 17th floor and I loved using the vibe to react to in my performance. It was a 14 hour day and I worked with an incredible team of people under the direction of the awesome Tim Royes. We pretty much recreated the album photo shoot - but with a spiritual twist. The concept was fleshed out a little more
with the idea that I'm avoiding the 'light' whilst immersed in my 'darkness'. I don't want to give too much away but it looks like it could be a very simple and beautiful piece of film that really sums up the theme of this album and where I am in my life right now. And it looks pretty too! Haha.
In other news I have really enjoyed spending time with my New York friends - it's making me feel excited about spending more time here next year! Soon I head off to London again to do more press and then on to Russia for their MTV Awards. I loved my first trip there a few years back so I've got high expectations. You better be ready Moscow!
Music wise, what do I love right now? There is an artist called Casey Stratton who to me is the male Sarah McLachlan. I love his voice and his poetry. If that intrigues you go to his site and check it out. www.caseystatton.com
Oh... and then of course there is the Diva herself... Miss Anna- Maria La Spina... who has just released her fantastic debut 'Mine' online. Go to www.anna.com.au if you wanna hear someone who is to me, my favorite live singer in the world.
Wow. I never plug people on line. But these are friends of mine who's music I truly love so hey... why not?
Now, in closing, apart from my video and the music I am listening to right now... the most important thing I can say is. Hope you're going to VOTE if you live in America!! If you aren't registered, please do so. I love America, I love living here, but I can not vote. So to all my
American friends who have the incredible power of an electoral voice...
I urge you to use it.
You could change the world. Please remember that.
Big love
D
Source: D-Zine
DB Magazine Article
Posted By lssilver on Thursday, October 7 2004 at 5:09 PM
Darren Hayes.
Not so long ago Darren Hayes was half of one of Australia's biggest ever musical exports. Then, after in excess of twenty million sales, the wheels began to fall off the Savage Garden juggernaut. According to media reports, Brisbane born Hayes and best friend/guitarist Daniel Jones acrimoniously split. It didn't take long for Hayes to resurface and launch his solo career with 'Spin'; an album which shifted over 2 million units but was judged by critics and fans worldwide as a listless flop.
Hayes now lives in San Francisco but is speaking from London where he's based himself for six months in order to promote his sophomore solo attempt. Hayes describes 'The Tension And The Spark' as a confronting record, and if you've seen the very funny video for first single Pop!ular you might suspect that there's also a fair amount of self mockery in the mix too.
"Yeah, I don't think you'd be alone with what you said about 'Spin,'" he concurs, "and I think that you'd probably be shocked to hear that I thought that as well. All I can tell you, from an emotional point of view is that these two records are a world apart. I think 'Spin' was a record I thought I had to make, and this is a record that I wanted to make.
"'Spin' was created in a very self conscious way under a very high pressure situation, and I kind of chickened out really. I underestimated what it was that an audience wanted from me and what I can give; and this album is a heavy mother, it's very personal. From a career point of view it could be deemed as suicidal because I'm turning my back on everything that's familiar to me and I'm leaving myself completely unguarded, lyrically. I've worked with hardcore electronic producers and engineers, and I've done all that presuming that maybe I was going to get dropped from my label. So nothing was done on this record for any other reason than just the pure urgency and love of it, and the frustration of feeling that I'd become an awful parody of myself, some sort of whitewashed parody of something that was beautiful once. And then there's me singing lower keys than I've ever sung before and not polishing or perfecting anything, so often the vocals are the very first take. It's a very immediate vocal treatment. So yes, there's definitely a bit of redemption."
With song titles like Unlovable, Sense Of Humour, Ego and I Forgive You, one immediately senses this album to be honest and confessional. I asked Hayes if there's any hidden messages aimed toward Jones. "No," he sternly replies, "and do you know what? There's nothing on this record about Daniel, and I think that whole concept of the band splitting up was so much less than what people thought it was. It wasn't this whole, horrible acidic cat fight between two people. It was just like any relationship, at first it was amazing and then it just stopped going in the same direction and so it just had to end, but there was no animosity and I think the press certainly turned it into something that was much worse than what it was. But no, the themes on this record are about my relationship with my father, my relationship with my lover and my concept of what my view of myself is, you know? My self worth, my acceptance, my feeling unloved, and forgiving those who've trespassed against me, you know what I mean? This record is very heavy in a lot of ways because it even dates back to the reason why I'm a performer, like the fact that I've been compensated for something I felt I've lost in the past. It's not a record about being a celebrity and it's not about Daniel Jones or Savage Garden."
As mentioned before, the film clip to Pop!ular is hilarious; aside from almost being arrested for not having permits to shoot in Oxford Street and other locations, Hayes purposely sent himself up as the pathetic stooge. "As you can see, I'm truly annoying people," he laughs, "I'm there hawking myself and I'm desperate for fame. And then there was the amount of people for whom the penny had dropped, 'Oh my God! Is that the guy out of Savage Garden?' I'm sure they thought, 'Oh that poor bastard, he must be just so desperate now!'"
Steve Jones
Source: http://www.dbmagazine.com.au/340/iv-DarrenHayes.shtml
So Fresh Interview - Part 1 (October 2, 2004)
Posted By lssilver on Sunday, October 3 2004 at 1:29 PM
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