“My lifelong dream has always been to write a stage musical.
No slow decline for these two Australian songwriters and performers, Darren Hayes (b.1972) and Daniel Jones (b.1973) got… I stepped away from the recorded music industry to study performance art, sketch comedy and improv,” Hayes wrote. And as modest masters of pop, in just two albums they provided enough classic, timeless songs to fill a Greatest Hits album. Thousands of bands claim they'd stop when it ceases being fun, Savage Garden actually did it.On the other we're quicker to hail pub rock icons from AC/DC to Cold Chisel as 'serious music'.There was a name change, from Crush (a title Darren Hayes would later recycle) to Savage Garden, from The Vampire Lestat.In hindsight, they've left a short but perfectly formed legacy. Savage Garden's official music video for 'I Want You'. http://bit.ly/qAPAZH Both men have admirably politely declined increasingly lucrative reformation offers, letting the songs continue to ably represent them instead.They never had a dud album, never had a major flop single, never had an awkward jazz odyssey moment, never forgot what or who they were doing this for. “It’s a big collaborative process and It’s a very long road – years in fact – until it reaches fruition – but just know that’s what I’ve been toiling away at all this time. Making smash hit songs from 1993 in Australia and shooting to fame in America in early 2000 with there number 1 world wide chart topping single “I Knew I Loved You”. Hayes was born to be on stage, Jones born to remain behind the scenes. Thousands of bands claim they'd stop when it ceases being fun, Savage Garden actually did it. Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (Official Video) - YouTube Published on Feb 18, 2014. In 2002 the band announced the group had disbanded leaving a legion of fans heartbroken and wondering where are they now? I’ve been quietly doing that for some time now, I just haven’t spoken of it publicly.” Hayes noted that the majority of his time not spent studying is spent on penning new songs.
Daniel Jones receded basically into non existence, being the reclusive member of Savage Garden it really didn’t come as a surprise.
Hayes is now based in Los Angeles, and has been embracing his love for comedy, hosting a comedy podcast called ‘He Said He Said’ with new creative partner Tim Stanton and regularly performing with legendary comedy troupe The Groundlings.Remember this popular Australian duo Savage Garden? Savage Garden is one of only two Australian bands to have ever had two #1 singles in the US. Well Savage Garden are, perhaps, one of the few who have. The duo consisted of vocalist Darren Hayes and instrumentalist Daniel Jones, and won a catalog of awards at the Billboard Music Awards, the ARIA’s and sold over 25 million albums world wide.“I get asked by people all the time if I’m ever going to make music again. *Image source : cdn.newsapi.com.au Songs written in suburban bedrooms became global anthems; the intimacy and innocence of their tunes was immediately genuine and untouched by corporate fingerprints. Savage Garden was een Australische popgroep, bestaand uit Darren Hayes en Daniel Jones.
In fact, I’m writing a musical. In the `90s, in suburban Brisbane, two men would become Australia's most successful duo of all time.© 2020 JWM Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.CAMERON ADAMS, journalist, Melbourne 2015Ironically it was following those hits around the world that would divide the duo.