StageLive: Welcome Darren Hayes!
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SavageRdn: Sorry I'm late. I was recording.
SavageRdn: Can I start by saying one thing?
SavageRdn: There's been a lot of confusion on the Internet about
StageLive: Please do!
SavageRdn: chatters on the Internet talking to Savage Garden.
SavageRdn: If you've been talking to people on the Internet,
SavageRdn: Daniel and I don't go into chat rooms so it's not us.
SavageRdn: But hello, I'm happy to be here.
StageLive: Here's our first question...
Question: I love your music! Do you know how many tracks there are going
to
be on the new album?
SavageRdn: At the moment, there's 13.
SavageRdn: And we've got another two songs that will be B-sides.
SavageRdn: So there's 15 brand new songs kicking around.
Question: Since the new album is being recorded in California, What are
you
guys doing after long days in the studio?
SavageRdn: We are having a blast.
SavageRdn: We're at place called WallyWorld.
SavageRdn: We've spent our downtime on motor scooters and 4-wheeld
SavageRdn: rives playing roller derby.
SavageRdn: Lots of boy things.
SavageRdn: I hang out at the local Starbucks and everybody there knows
myn
SavageRdn: ame now.
Question: What will the next single be like? A slow love song like Truly
or
Question: upbeat like I Want You or The Animal Song?
SavageRdn: We don't know.
SavageRdn: At the moment, I can just tell you that I love this record.
SavageRdn: I'm always going to say it's the best thing we've ever done.
SavageRdn: It's really emotional.
SavageRdn: There's about a third of the record upbeat and poppy.
SavageRdn: And another good chunk of it is very emotional.
SavageRdn: I don't think there's anything on there as innocent as "Truly
Madly Deeply."
SavageRdn: It's very electronic.
Question: Since you guys hit it big, things have changed alot in
yourlives...is
Question: there anything you would take back to change any event that has
taken place or
Question: are you perfectly happy with your sucess?
StageLive: We're talking right now with Pop Sensation Savage Garden,
whose
newest single
StageLive: "The Animal Garden" was released earlier this year.
SavageRdn: I was talking to my mother last night about that.
SavageRdn: I wouldn't change a single event in my life, good or bad.
SavageRdn: It makes you who you are.
SavageRdn: You bend and shape yourself according to your experiences.
SavageRdn: The present wouldn't be the present day without past
experiences,
SavageRdn: good or bad.
Question: Do you have any other hobbies or aspirations besides music
andwriting?
SavageRdn: At the moment, I'm kind of preoccupied with home things.
SavageRdn: I've just bought an apartment in Manhattan.
SavageRdn: It's kind of become my baby.
SavageRdn: I keep saying this but we get paid to do our hobby.
SavageRdn: So what I would do in my free time is kind of taken up in my
career.
SavageRdn: So besides my obsession with Star Wars, I'm kind of a simple
guy.
SavageRdn: There is one thing ...
SavageRdn: American diners.
SavageRdn: I'm fascinated with them.
SavageRdn: From New York, I've driven to Boston and Washington.
SavageRdn: In California, I drove to Sacramento.J
SavageRdn: ust little dives.
SavageRdn: I visit diners and I compare them to diners in my little diner
book
SavageRdn: I just bought.
Question: Will Daniel be singing in any of the songs on the new album?
SavageRdn: I don't think so.
SavageRdn: That's like asking me if I'll be playing any instruments.
SavageRdn: No.
Question: darren and Daniel, Do youu know if Anna Maria LaSpina will be
coming
Question: with you on tour again? and how is her solo career going?
SavageRdn: We would love her to come on tour with us.
SavageRdn: She has a permanent job with Savage Garden if she wants it.
SavageRdn: Anna is a dear friend of mine.
SavageRdn: and she's currently working very hard with a publishing
company
SavageRdn: writing songs and working with record companies about a deal.
SavageRdn: But it takes a long time so we'll see.
Question: Is any of your new material influenced by acts on the charts
today?
What
Question: kind of music are you into now?
SavageRdn: I don't know if any of the music on the new album is
influenced
SavageRdn: by the top 40 at the moment.
SavageRdn: A good chunk of it was influenced by Madonna's "Ray of Light"
album.
SavageRdn: And it was influenced by a group called K's choice.
SavageRdn: But really, every time we sit down to write a song,w
SavageRdn: e're drawing from influences from birth right through to the
SavageRdn: present day.
SavageRdn: I love songs.
SavageRdn: For instance, the new TLC song I think is incredible.
SavageRdn: So we'll bring that song into the studio and say, "What is it
about
SavageRdn: that song that sounds so magic? And how can we bring the samem
SavageRdn: agic into our music?"
Question: When you tour again in 2000, will you be using the same backup
band?
Question: ~~Lisa =)
SavageRdn: Some of them.
Question: If you could do a duet with anyone, who would it be and why?
SavageRdn: Good question.
SavageRdn: That's a really good question...
SavageRdn: Anna Maria LaSpina because she's the only person on the
planett
SavageRdn: hat I think my voice fits with like a glove.
Question: What difference do you see in your fans in America compared to
those
Question: around the world?
SavageRdn: American fans are less excitable.
SavageRdn: Very down to earth, and I like that.
SavageRdn: They can often have conversations with me on the street
SavageRdn: rather than screaming hysterically. And I love a chat.
Question: In an interview a while back, when asked about what we could
look
Question: forward to in the new album, Darren replied it would be a mix
of
Pop and
Question: Trip-hop.....and since the animal song is totally opposite from
that, what kind
Question: of sound should we be gearing up for?
SavageRdn: I think there's only one song on the record that has elements
of
SavageRdn: trip hop. I don't even know if we said that.
SavageRdn: There's only one trip hop song.
SavageRdn: The pop is very pop.
SavageRdn: And the ballads are very sad.
SavageRdn: It's not so much a record about music fashion as opposed
SavageRdn: to song writing.
SavageRdn: It's definitely a different style of song writing on this
record.
SavageRdn: It's more about moods and emotions.
SavageRdn: At first glance, it's probably going to look like quite a sad
album.
SavageRdn: There's a lot of heartache on there.
SavageRdn: but overall it's a very positive record.
SavageRdn: It's a record about getting through and living through
difficults
SavageRdn: ituations and coming out on the other side.
SavageRdn: If anything, "The Animal Song" is like the happy ending to
this
album.
Question: What's your most memorable event while performing?
SavageRdn: There are many.
SavageRdn: Usually embarrassing ones.
SavageRdn: Falling off stage in your hometown is always a favorite.
frustrations out in his songwriting
SavageRdn: Being mobbed on stage in Miami.
SavageRdn: Performing to 40,000 Hindus in India.
Question: Is it harder for you guys to work together since you two are in
two
Question: different locations?
SavageRdn: No. We are getting along better than ever.
SavageRdn: We did write together for this album.
SavageRdn: I think the media hyped it up a lot because I was in America
and
Daniel
SavageRdn: was in Australia.
SavageRdn: But I flew home a few times and Daniel came to San Francisco
SavageRdn: prior to the recording of the album to finish writing songs
with
me.
touring endlessly for 2 years
SavageRdn: And we've since written another two in the studio whilst
recording.
Question: do you take time off for family?
SavageRdn: There's not a lot of time off in this business.
SavageRdn: We just took nine months so that probably qualifies.
Question: what is your personal favorite song that u guys do?
SavageRdn: It's a brand new song on the album and it's called "Two Beds
and a
Coffee Machine."
Question: How did you come up with the name Savage Garden and what does
the
name
Question: mean?
SavageRdn: See Ann Rice.
Question: In what ways have you grown since the debut album?
SavageRdn: In so many ways.
SavageRdn: Personally and musically.
SavageRdn: I'm four years older than I was when it all started.
SavageRdn: I think that our success and our experience so far has taught
SavageRdn: us more about life than I've learned in 26 years on the
planet.
SavageRdn: It's been very fulfilling.
Question: Do you guys enjoy meeting w/your fans, including chats?
SavageRdn: I love this.
SavageRdn: I love a conversation.
SavageRdn: I'm not always comfortable being a person on a pedestal.I
SavageRdn: t can make a meeting kind of uncomfortable.
SavageRdn: I'd much rather run into a fan on the street than I would have
them
SavageRdn: meet me backstage because there's so much more expectation
SavageRdn: when you're seen as "the popstar."
Question: Hey guys, I really love your music, and I was wondering where
you
get
Question: your inspiration for your lyrics?
SavageRdn: Everything that we write is based on personal experience.
SavageRdn: And when we write together, Daniel and I just inspire each
other.
SavageRdn: He comes up with a piece of music and it triggers a memory in
me
SavageRdn: and we're constantly building off each other.
StageLive: We have time for one last question from the audience...
Question: When do you guys estimate the new album will be released and
can
you
Question: tell us a little bit about it?-Taylor
SavageRdn: Hopefully August of this year.
SavageRdn: There will be a first single from it in July.
SavageRdn: It's really colorful, very energetic
SavageRdn: painfully honest.
SavageRdn: And I don't know ...
SavageRdn: it just feels like 10 steps from where we've come from.
SavageRdn: I'm very proud of it at the moment.
SavageRdn: I just want to say thank you to everyone for your support and
your
SavageRdn: love and your patience.
SavageRdn: I can't wait to give you this big present
SavageRdn: and get back on the road and play the songs for you live.
SavageRdn: Thanks for such a beautiful life.
StageLive: Thank you Darren -- any final comments before you have to
leave?
SavageRdn: I have one final comment.
SavageRdn: Up until recently, it has been extremely difficult to
determine
SavageRdn: which is the order line and which is the pickup line at a
Starbucks.
SavageRdn: And I'm happy to see that more and more Starbucks are
beginning
SavageRdn: to place signs for the pickup and the ordering.
SavageRdn: Thank you.
StageLive: Thanks Darren, and thank all of you for being with us tonight!
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