06-31-02
The cover for the Australian Crush single is now up at hmv.com.au. It is to be released on Aug 19. Click on the image below to see the new CD cover in its full size.



Yea Canada! The Much Music website has added the 'Party in the Park' performance with Darren up on their TV listings. Here is the info from their site:

Thursday, August 22, 9pm, midnight & 7:30am ET, 6pm, 9pm & 4:30am PT Friday, August 23, 12noon ET, 9am PT

Party in the Park 2002 120 min
**NEW** Europe's biggest one day pop event, Party in the Park for The Prince's Trust takes place in London's Hyde Park. Don't miss performances by Shakira, Ja Rule & Ashanti, Michelle Branch, Enrique Iglesias, Shaggy, Blue, Natalie Imbruglia, Wyclef Jean, Atomic Kitten, Westlife, Darren Hayes, Beverly Knight. [Does NOT air on MuchUSA]

Thanks Ema for finding these recent photos of Darren from newspix.com.au. Click on any of the images below that you want, to see it in full size.




06-30-02
Thanks Alisha for sharing the scan of Darren in today's issue of 'MX' magazine (Australia). Click on the image below to see the article in full size. (Yes, it's the same photo as the article posted below, although this one is in color)



Thanks Aya for sharing the scan in today's issue of the 'Sydney Daily Telegraph'. Click on the image below to see it in full size.



Thanks JulyGarden for sharing these scans. Darren is in Russia's 'Cool Magazine' no. 30. Click on any one of the images below to see the article in full size.



DarrenHayesMusic.com has added three new UK tour dates:

Oct 15 - Plymouth Pavillion Oct 16 - London Hammersmith Oct 19 - Dublin Vicar Street


06-29-02
Thanks Suzan for scanning the cover of one of Turkeys mostly read music magazines 'Blue Jean'. Click on the image below to see it in full size.



Thanks Aya for the info that Darren is in the following Australian magazines (you can click on them to see them in full size):



Hit magazine July 25 issue, Gwen Stefani on the cover Darren's "Hayes While Then Sun Shines" story and upcoming Aussie tour info. The magazine is available only with the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper.



New Weekly magazine August 5 issue, Melanie Griffith on the cover Darren in "power Pouts" story and picture with Donatella Versace.

Thanks Charlene for the news that the 'MTV China Awards' show will be aired on the MTV Asia network on 8/18 at 2pm (Hong Kong Time). Darren performes Insatiable after receiving the award for Best International Male Artist.

'FoxFM' (in Melbourne Australia) is giving you the chance to win double passes on their website for Darren's concert there on August 31st. Click here to enter at their site. Thanks Cindy for this info.

Thanks Louisa for sharing this. UK's 'Q Magazine' had this little article about the Spin CD. Click here to read it.

Thanks Karine for sharing her pictures from Darren's performances of 'Insatiable' and 'Strange Relationship' at CapitalFm's 'Party In The Park'. Click here or on any one of the images below see them all in full size.




06-28-02
Thanks OneWayStreet for the info that MTV Asia has a Darren review and interview up on their website. Click on the image below to go to their site and see it.



Thanks Cazza for this news. VH1 (UK) is showing the Top 100 men every day this week (Darren made number 10 on the top 40 men a few weeks ago). They also had the top 40 Love Songs on this afternoon and 'Truly Madly Deeply' was number 19.

Congratulations to Darren for winning the 'Best International Male Artist' award from MTV China and there is an article about Darren on Sony Music China's site. It's in Chinese characters, so if you can read that click here. Aya was kind enough to share this scan of an article on the same site about Darren appearing at that show. Click on the image below to see it in full size and to read the translation.



Thanks Daniela for sharing these scans from the recent Mexican magazine called 'Notas para ti'. Click on the articles below to see them in full size. I will also have the transcript up as soon as possible for you guys.



Thank Heather for sharing this link. yourmobile.com has Darren's 'Insatiable' as a ringtone for mobile phones. Click here to see/get it on their site.

Thanks Lauren for the news that there is a small quote in the latest issue of 'Sugar' magazine from H from 'Step'. This is what is says:

“I always listen to Lady by Modjo if I’m getting ready to go out, but my fave album right now is by Darren Hayes – I used to love Savage Garden!”


06-27-02
Thanks Asa for this Swedish selling chart news for week 30:

Insatiable is at # 59, it was at # 54 last week. It's been 18 weeks in the charts. Spin is at # 41, it was at # 56 last week. It's been 16 weeks in the charts.

Prior to Darren's promo tour in Mexico a Mexican music video station aired a show about the Making of the Insatiable video. Thanks Vanessa for sharing these screenshots. Click on any one of the images below to see all of the images and in full size.



The D-Zine will be posting out the Sound Check Passes to all Fanclub Members from the UK and Australia, starting Monday July 29. Fan Club Members from other countries will receive their Sound Check Pass in their Membership pack. If you would like more info about joining the fanclub, click here to go to their site.

Two new concert dates have just been confirmed for Australia:

September 13th - The Barton Theatre in Adelaide
September 15th - the Burswood Theatre

Pollstar.com also has the updated tour info on their site, and you can click on the venue there to get more info.

Take40 now has Darren featured on their site titled, 'Spin City'. They also say to watch their site for upcoming contests to win Australian concert tickets and exclusive merchandise. Click here to go to Take40's site and when you get to their page, click on 'features.'


06-26-02
You can now watch the 'Crush(1980ME)' music video online~ Huge thanks go out to Vanessa and Guynemer for posting this up on the internet for us:

Click here for downloading the 225KB version
Click here for downloading the 150KB version
Click here for downloading the 56KB version

Thanks Vanessa for putting up the stills for the music video 'Crush (1980ME)'. Click here or on any one of the images below to go see them all and in full size.



Thanks Dyan for sharing this. Click here to read the Roadshow Press Release about Crush.

Thanks Asa for this info. On one of her posters with Darren, she noticed that Darren is wearing a bracelette that says 'Spin'. She scanned the picture for us which you can view in full size by clicking on the image below.



Thanks Teddy Bear for this news. 'Fox FM' (Australia) has been running a top 400 songs as sms'd by the public and 'Insatiable' was at number 22! What a great achievement and congrats Darren!


06-25-02
The Mexican site 'Alfa Radio' now has pictures of Darren's visit to Mexico up. Click on any of the images below to go to their website (then click on Alfa Radio in the menu at left).



ThanksClara for sharing this. The Leicester Mercury has small article on their site regarding his upcoming appearance their and his album Spin. Click here to read it.

Thanks Tobi for this info. Here are the additional dates for Darren's tour to Australia

August 31 - Melbourne  Palais Theatre
September 2 -Sydney  Enmore Theatre
September 5 - Newcastle, Civic Theatre
September 7 - Brisbane, Convention Centre
September 9 - Wollongong Entertainment Centre
September 10 - Canberra  Royal Theatre
September 13 - Adelaide TheBarton Theatre
September 15 - Perth Burswood Theatre

Tickets for all shows go on sale August 2nd.

Specificus will be supporting for all shows and Aneiki will be supporting Darren on this tour for all shows except Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

The rumoured price for tickets will be around $45.

Fox FM is giving you the chance to win tickets to the Melbourne Show. Click here for more info.

Thanks Alex for the scans of the article with Darren in this month's issue of 'Exa Magazine' (Mexico). Click on the article below to see it in full size. I will also add the transcript of the article as soon as possible.



'Top of the Pops' now have a small video clip from Darren's performance of 'Strange Relationship' on their show. Click on the logo below to watch the video. Thanks Janet for this info.



06-24-02
The Official Darren Hayes site has been updated. You can now unlock a new Darren Hayes bonus track, 'Where You Want To Be', with your copy of Spin! Click to get yourself connected.

Darren Hayes Music has just added the Australian tour dates. Click here to see the dates.




06-23-02
Thanks Asa for sharing this info. Webarama has put a little 'Thank You' to the Darren Hayes Music Fan Club for using them as their web host. Click here to read it on their site. Here is what they said:

Webarama would like to thank Tracey along with Darren for choosing Webarama to host the official Darren Hayes Fan Club Web SIte.

With over 600 members signing up on day 1, it appears as though Darren's solo career is off to a flying start.

Check out the site now at http://www.darrenhayesmusic.com.


06-22-02
The Darren Sony Website has been updated with a new diary entry by Darren! Click here to read it.

Thanks Asa! PlanetMG has nearly 30min of Darren unplugged that you can watch online! Click on the screen shot below to go to their site and watch the video.



Thanks Cindy for sharing this. Here are the current Darren charts:

UK Official charts Week 30 - 21 July 2002
Spin # 12 (up 13!)
Strange Relationship # 25 (down 10)

MTV-Russia Top 20 Videos:
# 9 Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship (# 11 last week)

Top 20 of National Music Channel Muz-TV:
# 20 - Darren Hayes - Insatiable (# 16 last week).

Pepsi Chart

# 6 Darren Hayes - Insatiable (# 11 last week).

Eurohit Top 40 Radio Europa Plus
# 4 Darren Hayes - Insatiable (# 3 last week)

Thanks Francesca for this info. The Greek site, StarFM has a mention of Spin on their site, along with mp3 samples of 'Strange Relationship', ' Miss You', 'Insatiable', 'Crush' and 'I Can't Ever Get Enough of You'. Click here to go to their site, and just scroll down the page a bit.


06-21-02
GoPopHits has a contest on their site to win an exclusive autographed poster of Darren. To enter you just have to know the answer to the question, 'What was the location for the Strange Relationship Video?' Click here to go to their contest page. Good luck!

Thanks Eudial for the info that in the July issue of UK's 'Q magazine', there is a tiny Darren article about his CD.

Thanks Guynemer for sharing these screen stills of Darren on UK's 'Top of The Pops' performance. Click here or on any one of the images below to see them in full size and to see all of the stills.




06-20-02
Thanks FlavourOfIcecream for scanning in the article from UK's 'Sneak' Magazine. I posted the article on July 17th, but we didn't have a scan yet. So just click on the article below to see/read it in full size.



Thanks Ema for the news that 'TV Azteca' (Mexican site) has a mention of Darren and 'Spin' up on their site, along with an older pic of Darren when he was part of Savage Garden. Click here to see it.

You can now vote on Darren's performance on the 'Top of the Pops' website by clicking here. Thanks Annabelle for this info.


06-19-02
Huge thanks to Saturn_de_wicked for sharing the article of Darren in the July/August issue of 'Max' magazine. Click here to read it.

Thanks Mel for sharing this. The 'Too Close For Comfort' tour dates will be released very soon for Australia. They are in the final confirmation process right now. So keep an eye out for that. Also, Crush (1980 ME) will be released to Aussie radio stations on July 29th, so get ready to request from your favourite station.

Thanks Asa for this info. Sound World.com.au has three images of Darren that you have probably seen before, but never never this BIG! Click on anyone one of the pictures below to go to their site and just scroll down until you get to the info about the 'Crush' single, and you will see 3 links for the pictures.



Thanks Marianne and Cindy for sharing this. There's a recent article from Teen Stuff, Egypt's best selling English magazine, which talks about the latest albums. Click here to read the article. There is also an advertisement and i've added the text below the scan. Just click on the scan below to see it in full size and to read the text.




06-18-02
Thanks Aya for scanning the cover of Darren's new single, 'Crush (1980ME)' that will be released in Australia on. Click on the cover below to see it in full size. You can also preorder the single at Sound World for AUS$4.95 (approx. US$2.60). Click here to preorder.



Lisa was lucky enough to get her 'Spin' review published in this weeks issue of 'TV Week'. Click on the image below to see/read the review.




06-17-02
Thanks Choc for typing up the article in this month's issue of UK's 'Sneak Magazine'. Click here to read it.

Darren will be on Top of the Pops this Friday & Sunday on BBC1. Those of us in the US with cable channel BBC America will also get to see him on Monday and Friday. See below for times/dates:

7:30pm, Friday 19th July on BBC1 (UK)
1:25am, Sunday 21st July on BBC1 (UK)
6:30pm (et), Monday 22nd July on BBC America
6:30pm (et), Friday 26th July on BBC America

Thanks Cindy for this news. You can now vote for Darren's cover version of 'Sexual Healing' on RE:Covered's Hit or Miss contest. Click here to vote.


06-16-02
Thanks Gracie for this news. Capital FM are having a contest in which you can win Darren CD's and Artwork. Click here or on the image below to enter.



Thanks Dyan for the info that the next Spin single to be released in Australia will be Crush (1980ME). It will be released on August 9, 2002 and here is the track listing:

1.Crush (1980 Me)
2.Crush (1980 Me) (Mayday "Disco Biscuit" Mix)
3.Strange Relationship Mix F3 Mix
4.Right Dead Back On It (Original Demo Recording)
5.Insatiable(Acoustic Version) (Live In The Capital Radio Living Room)

Thanks Cindy for the current Darren charts for around the world:

Official UK Charts (dotmusic) 14 July 2002
Spin - # 25 (up 11!!)
Strange Relationship - # 15 (debut)

Australasian Chart week commencing 15th July 2002
Spin # 14 (down 2)
Strange Relationship dropped off this week

Norway Airplay chart dated 11 July 2002
Insatiable # 27 (down 13)

Sweden charts dated 11 July 2002
Spin # 53 (down 6)
Insatiable # 59 (down 6)

Savage Garden Charts in the USA:
Billboard - Issue date July 20, 2002
Adult Contemporary Recurrents:
I Knew I Loved You # 2 (up 1)
Truly Madly Deeply # 11 (up 1)

Hot 100 Singles Sales
Truly Madly Deeply # 61 (up 2)

Thanks Francesca for sharing this. There's a new Scandinavian site, 'Beauty and More' which has a mention for Insatiable and also the Insatiable video available in Windows Media. Click here to see it and Just scroll down the pagea bit.


06-15-02
Thanks Susanne for typing up the transript of Darren's appearance on MTV Europe's 'The Fridge' live in London from July 5. Click here to read it.

Thanks Francesa for the info that Insatiable is now available on a track of songs from Karaoke Outlet. You can click here to see the listing. It's the 3rd disk listed on the page.


06-14-02
Thanks Gemma for the news that Strange Relationship is number 15 in the UK Charts this week

A reminder to the UK fans that Darren's appearance on the UK program 'RE:COVERED' will air tonight (Sunday, 14 July) on 'BBC Choice at 8' PM (London time).

For those of us that have to miss it, you can still see the clips of Darren's 'Strange Relationship' and 'Sexual Healing' performances on their website by clicking here.

Thanks Poptartlet for sharing the following info:

I read in a Aussie New Idea mag this week that Oliva Newton John is recording a new album, and will be sing duets with Darren, John Farnham,Tina Arena and Vanessa Amorossi. It didnt say anything else about if cover songs etc.

Thanks Audrey for finding these pictures of Darren meeting Prince Charles, and another from CapitalFM's Party in the Park. Click on the image you want to see it in full size.




06-13-02
Thanks saturn_de_wicked for sharing this. Lime magazine has aninterview with Darren in their July issue (issue 69). Click here to read it.

Thanks Lauren for the transcript of Darren on Heart 106.2 Radio. Click here to read it.

The Darren Hayes Music Fan Club's Member's Message Board is now open a! If you've already received your membership password from the D-Zine, then head on over, pick your user name and you can start reading and writing!


06-12-02
There is a clip of Darren performing 'Sexual Healing' from the 'Re:covered' performance on the BBC website. Click here to listen and thanks Janet for sharing this link!

Thanks Laurie for the info that Darren's interview on 'Radio2' has been posted on their website. Click on the image below to listen to the interview.




06-11-02
Thanks Farnaz for this news. Top of the Pops has a poll on the front page of their website asking "Is Darren Hayes Fab?" If you would like to add your voice to the vote, just click on the picture below and look for the poll on the bottom right under 'Have Your Say.'



CapitalFM now has artist interviews up on their site from 'Party in the Park'. The interviews are in streamline video. Clickhere to see it.

Just a reminder, here are the remaining UK shows that Darren will be on:

Friday, July 12 - UK Top of the Pops - BBC1

Saturday, July 13 - PITP Hightlights (Channel 5 1-3PM)

Sunday, July 14 - UK Re-covered BBC Choice 8 PM GMT (broadcast day of the show that was taped June 29)

Thanks Rita for sharing this. There is a snippet from BRMB's Birmingham 'Party in the Park' programme book:

Darren Hayes
There's not many people who can boast of selling 20 million albums - but Darren Hayes can! As one half of Aussie super-duo Savage Garden, Darren conquered the pop world with singles such as 'Truly Madly Deeply' and 'I Want You' - and he's here today to do it all over again as a solo artist. After Darren and fellow Gardener Daniel Jones called it a day in 2000, his debut album 'Spin' entered the charts here at Number 2, and the first single from it, 'Insatiable', made a sizable dent in the Top 10. Laying out grooves that come across like a modern take on classic soulsters Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson, Darren's taken the Savage Garden
sound and added a timeless touch.


06-10-02
BRMB has 3 pictures of Darren up from 'Party in the Park'. Click the picture below to go to their site.



Thanks Em for the news that Darren will be interviewed on Jono's 'Emma's Breakfast Show' on Heart 102.6 this Thursday (tomorrow). Their show is from 6-9am (London time). They do have a listen online link on their site.

Thanks Anna for this news. Re:Covered will be airing Darren's appearance this Sunday. The line up the show is: Darren Hayes, Flaming Lips and McAlmont & Butler. This is on BBC choice at 8pm. Click the picture below to go to their site for more info.




06-09-02
Wow, Darren has updated his journal again on the official Darren Hayes website! Click here to read it.

Thanks Klaudia for sharing this short posting in the newsletter from HNFM:

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DARREN HAYES IS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
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Darren Hayes has officially announced his first leg of his "Too Close For Comfort" world-wide tour. The tour kicks off with a 10-date tour of the UK, though it has been rumoured that Darren will be touring Australia in September. Darren will take his tour to all capital cities and needless to say, Darren is very excited! "Expect something completely different from the last tour... This one is much more up close and personal. I don't want to give away too much but I think you're gonna dig it", Darren says.