End of road for Savage Garden
End of road for Savage Garden
By CAMERON ADAMS, music writer
05 Oct 01
SUPERGROUP Savage Garden have split. The Brisbane duo, who
sold more than 20 million albums worldwide in four years,
will never record together again, with singer Darren Hayes
about to launch a solo career.
Hayes announced the split exclusively to the Herald Sun in
San Francisco, ending months of speculation.
"Savage Garden is done," Hayes said.
"That's it. I always thought we'd do three or four albums,
then maybe I'd go solo, but it's just been the two albums.
"But going solo wasn't an ego thing. It wasn't that I left
the band, the band left me."
Hayes said his ex-bandmate Daniel Jones was so sick of being
in a group he almost scrapped the release of their million-
selling second, and final, album Affirmation at the eleventh
hour.
"Daniel told me he didn't want to do it any more, didn't want
to be in the public eye, didn't even want to release
Affirmation," Hayes said.
"He felt miscast. The travelling was getting him down. He was
really unhappy and that broke my heart. But when he actually
said he didn't want to be in a band any more it came as a huge
surprise."
Hayes talked Jones into staying in the band by promising to
personally promote Affirmation during all the interviews and
television appearances.
"I said, 'I'll do everything, you just have to turn up to TV
shows and stand there and play' and go on tour. He said 'OK'.
"He was happy on the Affirmation tour, but he knew it was the
end.
"I always felt like I was dragging him to do promo, I always
felt like we could have been bigger if we'd done more promotion.
"It was a marketing nightmare, promoting this band who were
really just one guy and another guy who's in the background
all blurry.
"I had to pay for Daniel's decision on the entire tour. Every
interviewer would ask, 'Where's Daniel?' It was exhausting.
"We earned exactly the same amount of money but I was doing
three times the work."
Hayes said the creative tension that fuelled the band, who
topped the charts with hits like Truly Madly Deeply, I Want You,
To the Moon and Back, I Knew I Loved You and The Animal Song,
also helped end it.
But they remain on friendly terms.
"There really isn't any animosity. It's not like the Beatles
when they split."
Hayes is in San Francisco, where he is now based, finishing off
his debut solo album Spin, which adopts a more progressive and
electronic musical sound than Savage Garden.
"It's not that I can't do it without Daniel, it's just that I
wouldn't have chosen to," he said.
"But I was put in a situation where I had to. I would never
have chosen to split, I wanted Savage Garden to go on forever.
But it's liberated me."
The final show of last year's Affirmation tour in South Africa
last December was their final ever show, according to Hayes.
He said there are no unreleased Savage Garden songs, and no
plans to record or tour ever again.
Jones, who has formed a record label to nurture new talent,
produced a single for new Brisbane band Aneiki, Pleased to Meet
You, which was a recent top 30 hit.
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