No, not that I can recall. He seemed to only focus on the really big hits and a few of the tracks from the newly released album. He didn’t perform ‘Hold Me’ either.
Darren Hayes - Homosexual
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No, not that I can recall. He seemed to only focus on the really big hits and a few of the tracks from the newly released album. He didn’t perform ‘Hold Me’ either.
Dublin Sky was cut? Did you get something else instead? Maybe it was too difficult to sing with a cold.
Nothing else unfortunately, it did seem that due to his cold he cut back a little however, what he didn’t cut back on was his vocals which were crazy insane good!
Why is the wording from Darren’s mailing below giving me worry that his marriage has ended…?
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Never in my entire career has art ever immitated life more than this year.
I'm grateful to film maker Andrew Huebscher for his passion for this song which resulted in me shooting this video just days before I left for the 'Do You Remember?' tour. I'm forever indebted to Andrew for his oustanding direction and cinematography and to my wonderful scene parter, Casey James - who laughed with me and patiently held me while I cried for three days straight as we made this short film.
This is the end of an era in so many ways. I poured my soul into this album, this tour and into people I met along the way and yes, I got my heart broken in the end. Was it worth it? I dont know. But it's all real. I don't know how to be any other way.
The video is stunning. Very cryptic message there too, I hope he's alright. Going from a decade of obscurity to releasing an album and embarking on a world tour must be quite the challenge in so many ways.
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Here I was thinking the Homosexual era was over and then he dropped the video, then I read the newsletter...
I came to ask exactly the same thing. I hope both are okay if true. I doubt he'd have revealed this if it was very fresh. I watched a few of his insta lives and he's all about boundaries etc.
I thought that sonically and thematically this song stood out on Homosexual as it felt like it belonged on any of his previous records but not this one. I say that only because it's got the classic Darren/Savage Garden vibe to it but perhaps he wanted to get out what he was feeling to document the demise of the relationship?!
We could all be misreading this and it could actually be the passing of Wally he's referring to. As that is portrayed in the video too. A scream.
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Bless him, now I can see why he was so emotion talking about his first marriage during the tour.
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What would you like to know ..?
All that we really know is that he did all the videos for This Delicate Thing, he's an animator, a director ... A screen writer.
Nothing just the reception makes me feel they were a known couple or people followed their history etc. Sad!
He/him
Screaming. We know very little. It was all a non event, he was hardly ever mentioned after This Delicate Thing until today. I mean to be fair Darren has not been in the public eye for 11 of those 17 years too.
This is sad to read. Feels Like It's Over really stood out to me on the album. Of course you can write fiction into songs but that one just felt like Darren was speaking from experience, something which I found odd when he's been married for so long. Now it all makes sense.
I spent a little time yesterday looking up Darren's performances on The Masked Singer , and then ended up on a bit of a Darren crawl through the internet, especially with that interview he's just done in which he says he did The Masked Singer as a distraction from his divorce. So sad.
Anyway I had a night to myself last night as my partner was out and I impromptu popped on a Darren DVD- The A Big Night In With one. It's not my fav (hello The Time Machine Tour!) but it was so enjoyable. I said something similar on here after seeing him on his last tour earlier this year, but watching that DVD last night just brought back so many memories and reminded me just how much Darren's music has meant to me- and still does. There aren't many albums that have ever had strangleholds on me in the way that Affirmation, The Tension and the Spark and This Delicate Thing We've Made have done. All 3 are quite possibly in my top 10 albums of all time.
Anyway, the flood of memories from watching the DVD have sent me off on a Darren marathon today at work (was the only one in the office, I've literally listened to him alllll day). What a back catalogue! And although it's fair to say I don't love Homosexual as a whole, I really do think A Little Death is becoming one of my favourite of all his songs. And that is really saying something! And it hit me today listening to A Little Death that actually I think it's probably about the break up with Richard. How to make my favourite song from the album hit even harder! This section:
As time goes by the feelings fade
But they never really went away
Somewhere in another universe
Maybe you and I are on that hill
Scanning skies with telescopes
L.A. lights laid out below us
Future lives stretched out before us
A little death you didn't notice
The melody, the lyrics, the feeling, the beauty... Magic. And heartbreaking.
Anyway I had a night to myself last night as my partner was out and I impromptu popped on a Darren DVD- The A Big Night In With one. It's not my fav (hello The Time Machine Tour!) but it was so enjoyable. I said something similar on here after seeing him on his last tour earlier this year, but watching that DVD last night just brought back so many memories and reminded me just how much Darren's music has meant to me- and still does. There aren't many albums that have ever had strangleholds on me in the way that Affirmation, The Tension and the Spark and This Delicate Thing We've Made have done. All 3 are quite possibly in my top 10 albums of all time.
Anyway, the flood of memories from watching the DVD have sent me off on a Darren marathon today at work (was the only one in the office, I've literally listened to him alllll day). What a back catalogue! And although it's fair to say I don't love Homosexual as a whole, I really do think A Little Death is becoming one of my favourite of all his songs. And that is really saying something! And it hit me today listening to A Little Death that actually I think it's probably about the break up with Richard. How to make my favourite song from the album hit even harder! This section:
As time goes by the feelings fade
But they never really went away
Somewhere in another universe
Maybe you and I are on that hill
Scanning skies with telescopes
L.A. lights laid out below us
Future lives stretched out before us
A little death you didn't notice
The melody, the lyrics, the feeling, the beauty... Magic. And heartbreaking.