Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Time Machine just landed! COME SEE IT WITH ME!
Current mood: thrilled

The trailer and pre order info for the Time Machine Tour DVD is up on my site.
Visit WWW.DARRENHAYES.COM and see it in all it's green glittery glory.

There's two versions available A Super Duper Deluxe Packaging one released July 1 and a still lovely but standard package one released July 22

You can get the standard one at all music stores in Australia and the UK from July 21 and the U.S from July 21

The deluxe package one is only available from my website because it's so lush and delicious and has a four panel fold out gleaming white box and 32 page
color booklet with 300 photos and notes from me. We only made 2000 of those little suckers and they're gorgeous.

Check out my site and see for yerself.
Ooh I'm excited!
xD

I FORGOT TO MENTION - There's a competition when you pre order the deluxe version where you can win tickets to come to the London Premiere and watch the movie on the big screen with my friends, family and I! Gosh it's all just too much isn't it!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Swirl
Category: Music

I'm at home all nice and cosy.
Outside it's a purple sky pregnant with rain.
It's cold out there and little bits of water fall from the clouds but not enough to qualify as a shower. Inside the radiators are purring away and tonight's dinner gently bubbles on the stove.

I went to see Shave today for the first time really since the tour ended. We saw each other briefly when I made high tea for his family who were visiting London from Australia. But that didn't really count. Today we got to talk properly and he showed me some of the stuff he's been working on. He has done a film score for a short film and I was blown away by how great it was.

On the way over it was gridlock traffic . I should have been stressed out about it but I was in a kind of dreamy head space. As the storm was coming the wind had picked up and as I sat there in bumper to bumper traffic I watched as the petals of what I presume were once a part of Cherry Trees were blowing in the wind. They swirled around like a flock of birds. They seemed to be animated or controlled by some kind of force. I know it was just a happy accident but it made me smile.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Peeking Out
Category: Music

Originally posted for members of Delicacy on 18th April 2008



I think when the tour ended I was so tired I didn't even think about anything other than wanting to run away and sleep. Or hide maybe. But certainly I wanted to take a step out of the spotlight. I also thought that I would take a much longer time being silent. But after a while I thawed out and wanted to post a thought, so I did (about Anthony Minghella) and then today, I saw images from a show that just debuted and I got so excited I wanted to talk about it. Hence me writing.

In a lot of ways, I think that the climate we live in encourages a culture of constant connection. And that can be exhausting. We live so much in front of our computers now that we forget to live. Just blogging every day for the last album built up an expectation that I would continue on doing the same even after the album was finished. Obviously that's not possible and had I done that, I would have been completely spent creatively. I think it's much easier to involve the outside world in your journey when you're on it. But when you're planning it, I think sometimes that has to be in private. So I've decided that in terms of what I plan to do next musically I'm not going to start writing about until I'm in the thick of it.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Erhem!

You might want to check out the landing page on my website

Woot!

xD

http://www.darrenhayes.com

btw In case you can't see his site, here is what it says on his homepage...

The Time Machine Tour on DVD
Trailer and Pre-Order May 1st
Deluxe Version July 1st
Standard Version July 22nd

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Truly Madly Deeply

In December 2005 I attended a screening of a documentary about singer George Michael at a cinema in London.

I didn't know much about the evening or what the film was. I just knew that his publicist had invited me to attend a friends and family screening of the film.
If you know anything about me you'll know I'm notoriously terrible at the job of celebrity. I've famously uninvited myself from many a dinner with many a star simply because I always feel fraudulent (don't we all?).

But I wanted to attend this event because George was quite simply someone who really inspired me to want to sing. I'd met him a couple of times in the past and he always struck me as such a shy and sensitive soul and more importantly I felt he'd been down a few roads I was about to travel.
So I took my then assistant and now amazingly successful author Lana Penrose as my date.

As we pulled up in our taxi I saw a line of paparazzi and a crowd of about a hundred in front of the Curzon theatre. My immediate reaction was to tell the cabbie to keep driving and take me home. I had no idea it was a gala event and I was in my 'in between albums' state of not wanting to be in the public eye.
But we got out and just before we went in, Lana tried to say something supportive about making sure we smiled for the cameras.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Your Chance To Re-Live The Side Two Tour
Category: Music

If you would like to re-live or experience the audience high point each night when fan-favourite 'Casey' was performed you can order digital downloads of the song now.

Casey was recorded each evening and every individual one off performance is now available to pre order and own forever by CLICKING HERE .

In addition, there are 3 unique digital bundles available with exclusive b sides at WWW.DARRENHAYES.COM

SINGLE ONE
1. CASEY (A CAPPELLA)
2. WORDS (ORIGINAL DEMO RECORDING)

SINGLE TWO
1. CASEY (LIVE FROM THE TIME MACHINE TOUR)
2. IN YOUR MOTHER'S EYES (DEMO RECORDING)

SINGLE THREE
1. CASEY (ORIGINAL DEMO RECORDING)
2. WALK AWAY (ORIGINAL DEMO RECORDING)

В этом интервью Даррен рассказывает о концепции фотосъемки к его альбому 'This Delicate Thing We've Made'...

Friday, February 22, 2008

Until we meet again..
Current mood: Zen
Category: Zen Music

I have blogged about every show on this tour so I thought I'd quickly post about Amsterdam. It was a love fest. Simple as that. I sang until I was hoarse actually (I think we played 17 or 18 songs and explored a lot of older stuff).. I've got one more show on Sunday night in London and then, as you all know, I'm officially out of the lime light for as long as it will take to get me some happy. I've had a lot of people ask me what will happen after I play the last live date.

The truth is, I don't know.
Time out, for sure.

I've been in the public eye solidly for 12 years now. Even in my downtime when I wasn't promoting an album I was making one. When I wasn't doing press I was touring. When I wasn't touring I was having meetings. When I wasn't having meetings I was making an album.
And so on and so forth.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Brighton

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official
Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 16th 2008.

Just got in the door from the Brighton gig. It's after 2 am and I'm more than a little bleary eyed! It's the only show outside of London close enough to drive home afterwards but it still feels like a bit of a trek after doing the set and then piling into a transit van with the lads.

I really enjoyed singing tonight and the venue was a very cool looking space. I do feel for the audience at some of these clubs as obviously they aren't completely designed for everyone to have the best view and there are always loads of people sort of crammed in at the sides where they can't really see much.

This perhaps leads to a bit of cheekiness. Or perhaps it's my own banter that invites it. Either way there was a very vocal young man to my right who kept INSISTING I sing 'Insatiable' all night.

To be kind, I performed some of 'To The Moon and Back' . Thought this was a nice peace offering. You know, something old but good.

Hats off to Shave for remembering how to play it, since it clearly wasn't at all rehearsed!

It was a very studious performance tonight. I was really internal (well until I started making jokes about having massive testicles). And Steve said during the encore that he saw loads of people crying during certain songs. I presume this is not because we were terrible but because they too were feeling the lyrics and getting 'internal' as well.