Australian Radio Interview

[Jim]

Australian Radio Interview
Posted By lssilver on Wednesday, August 18 2004 at 12:42 PM



Darren will be interviewed on the 'Kyle and JackieO Show' today from 4pm. The show airs on the Austereo Network around Australia (B105 Brisbane, 2DAYFM Sydney, FOX FM Melbourne, SA FM Adelaide & NX FM Newcastle).

I heard an advert for the interview on B105 and they will play it at 4PM.

[sherman]

He's going to be calling after the 5pm news update.
Don't miss out :)

[Jim]

The transcript to the interview:

*Phone call from Darren comes in* I missed the first few seconds.

Darren: I think it's like 8 o'clock in the morning here in London and I was doing this until sort of 1 o'clock in the morning last night so if I seem even more boring than usual you'll have to forgive me.

JackieO: You're never boring. You've always got the good goss for us Darren.

Kyle: He's the gossip. He love's it.

Darren: Lets just get into it.

Kyle: Well it's the circles that you move in, that's why we think that we always get the good goss from you.

JackieO: Now what in London at the moment cause you're basing yourself there now?

Darren: I have been for the set up of this record. Do you know what honestly. I've been so busy I was yesterday I think I was in 3 different countries in Europe. I kinda started it at 6AM. I think I was in Copenhagen, then I was in Oslo and ended up in London by about midnight. And now I am chatting to you so. If there's something sexy going on I don't know about. I've been working.

JackieO: You have. Now this album I read recently that you went to see a psychiatrist and a lot of it came through that.

Darren: Not True.

JackieO: It isn't true. I wondered if that was real or not.

Darren: No and this is fun, keep going I love this thing.

Kyle: Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. I'm thinking of going to a psychiatrist soon.

Darren: Cause it's not true and you know what besides, I'm sort of quite expensive. I'm a lot more expensive than the person I actually paid to see. Ooh, did I say that on air.

JackieO: So but this album is personal though you're writing from personal stuff.

Darren: Oh my god, it's totally personal absolutely look. I spent 2 years of my life really making this record. I came off touring 2002 and you know I really did take a good look at my life and so I'm not going to lie to you. It's a very autobiographical record. But at the same time you know it's a lot of fun. I think Popular is an example of that I, I mean it's a cliché but it is a reinvention. I worked with some amazing people who I've always wanted to work with and the truth is I was completely bored with pop music, completely bored with myself, my own image, all of that stuff. So I sort of spent the last couple of years you know looking at, looking at all of that and having, having a lot of fun, you know shaking things up.

Kyle: Well with the song, in the lyrics popular where it says I'm willing to sleep my way to the top, who did you root along the way?

Darren: I think it was everyone but you Kylie, I mean Kyle.

JackieO; You wish he was Kylie.

Darren: You never return my calls. I don't know what's up with that. I'm not offended but you know yeah, pretty much anything I've had to do, I've pretty much done it.

JackieO: I thought you were were going to say pretty much anything I've had to do, I've had to sleep my way to get there.

Darren: Do you remember there was a regurgitator song about this very topic, I don't know if we can talk about it on drive.

Kyle: We can.

Darren: It was quite funny.

Kyle: We can. We can talk about anything you like.

Darren: Moving right along.

Kyle: Now while you're over there, have you run into any of the Australian mafia? You're Holly Valances, You're Kylie's, or anyone else that we know. Anyone?

Darren: God, I love you're sense of humor. Do you know who I see and who I think is beautiful is Delta Goodrem. Obviously.

Kyle: Oh, Delta, we love Delta.

JackieO: Well see you did the whole Aria thing for her and that was amazing.

Darren: Yeah, well she's an amazing kid. She sits me down and gives me advice about life. I have to keep remembering that she's only 19. She's so talented and she's such an amazing person and um she's probably one of my favourite people.

Kyle: Well what about her boyfriend.

Darren: Never met him. Never met him.

Kyle: Me neither. Well I don't want to meet him.

JackieO: Why?

Kyle: Cause I just, I worry for Delta, I worry she's going to get her heart broken and it stresses me out. So I put him out of my mind. I can't handle it.

Darren: I wouldn't worry. She's a really really smart. I don't want to call her a kid. I swear to god. I see her as an equal and she's so talented Look I shouldn't be saying it, but she's working on some pretty amazing music. Her new record's going to be incredible.

Kyle: You know what. I've heard some of the songs off it.

Darren: Well I, I, I, I've

JackieO: Listen

Darren: Well I've seen the video.

Kyle: Oh damn

JackieO: Shut up you two.

Darren: I'm in the video.

Kyle: Well I only spoke to her 3 days ago when she got out of hospital.

Jackie: Oh my god.

Kyle: Well hang around. we're going to be chatting more with Darren Hayes about his brand mew song Popular, Brand new album out too. It's out September 13. Hang around. More with Darren Hayes here on the Kyle and JackieO show.

*Plays Popular*

Kyle: It's the Kyle and JackieO show. We are back chatting with Darren Hayes. He's at home in London. He's tired. He's been traveling al over the place. But he's willing to chat to us. So he's gotta be still a good bloke.

JackieO: So what's your place like in London?

Darren: Let me clarify something. The record company has been putting us up here. And when I say us I mean everybody. It's hilarious. I'm living in a four story victorian house which sounds posh, but it's me, my manager, her husband, their baby, the nanny, my assistant and my dog.

Kyle: Oh, my god, it'll be like living at the office here.

Darren: Exactly. But you know I've definitely been here for, it's almost been about 4, I guess it's been 4 or 5 months now. Sort of setting up the record. But um no, I still have my house in San Francisco. And were coming home in the end of september to promote the record so. It's been a lot of travel but it's fun, It's really cool.

JackieO: Did you hear about that poll they did over in the UK and it only came out yesterday but it was doing a massive poll on the greatest songs that never reached number 1. And on the top of the list, like the number 1 the most, most voted for was Robbie Williams Angles. And then number 2 was Savage Garden Truly Madly Deeply.

Darren: I know. That was so cool. You know it's so funny too because friends of mine were like yeah, but it went to number 1 in America.

JackieO: That's what I was thinking when I read it.

Darren: But still, I mean it's funny because in England with Savage Garden it took, it actually actually took a little bit longer for the band really to succeed over here and then when the band did, it was amazing. But um, that, yeah. It was a great achievement and that was really cool that people still see that song. And regard it so highly so thanks.

Kyle: Have you been inside Buckingham Palace?

Darren: Do you mean Daniel's new house or the actual.

JackieO: Nah, the real deal.

Kyle: The real palace.

Darren: He has an amazing house. Um. Do you know, I haven't. And um, no, the whole royal connection, I meet Prince Charles once, and he didn't invite around to the place but he wasn't even sure who I was. Which. The nerve of him.

Kyle: How Annoying.

JackieO: I think that's the case when Prince Charles meets pretty much everyone.

Darren: He was so funny. At one of the party in the parks performances and you know and they present it to you like ooh you know, the prince really wants to meet you. He gone off. And I was so excited to meet him. And when I met him he said and what do you do? And I said I sing. I'm a performer. and he goes really will you be performing up there? On that stage? And I thought, you're not really a fan are you.

JackieO; Oh. Don't you hate that. And you believe the hype. You believe what their assistants tell you. And then suddenly reality dawns.

Darren: I still have a vision of him in his boxer shorts. You know dancing round the kitchen to Popular.

JackieO: You haven't been to Buckingham Palace, but have you been to Beckingham Palace?

JackieO: No, but their fans oh.

Kyle: Are they fans of yours?

Darren: Lets pt your hand on your heart and just lets feel this moment. They are.

Kyle; Oh excellent.

Darren: I was on the video shoot for Popular and the make up artist on the shoot got a phone call and it was Victoria. And she's on the phone, and they're chatting away and she starts singing Insatiable to the make up artist and she's apparently a huge fan. I'd heard that they like my music in the past but ha, even closer and closer.

JackieO: You could get there very soon Their huge over there, there just massive.

Kyle: But he has sex with other women Jackie. That guy.

JackieO: I know.

Kyle: He's a philanderer. He's a cheating husband.

JackieO; Now just quickly. I gotta ask about you're film clip with the cops that appear in the clip. They are not actors. The guys chasing you are real cops.

Kyle: What.

Darren: Oh yeah. We didn't get permits. Which no one told me about to shot on Oxford street in London. I mean, the story's really interesting because originally we had 20 treatments or ideas from directors to make this video and I, none of us liked any of them and we all know I've made a bad video or two in the past. So we didn't want to repeat that so I came up with this idea called shameless self promotion. You relate to this Kyle

Kyle: Oh I love this yes.

JackieO: Right up his alley.

Darren: And I went to New York and we did it as a test there first where I terrified Americans on 5th Avenue and it was hilarious. It was almost like an episode of Jackass. And one of the people on that show is a friend of mine, one of the cinematographers, so we then, did the shoot here in London, over 3 days. Only obviously we ramped it up a bit because we had a couple well I'd guess you'd call them strippers following me around with a boom box

Kyle: Oh. Why can't I go on some of these things.

Darren: And we didn't, we didn't have permits on Oxford Street and we almost shut the whole street down. It was hilarious. The girls were in tears, like the police. It was one of those like TV moments, because the crew were telling us to just run out the back of this store. So we're running out the fire escape and there's all the police going hold it you know and they wanted to arrest us. We were there for like an hour trying to get out of it.

Kyle: They don't even have guns over there. They just run around blowing whistles.

JackieO: Batons

Kyle: And waving batons.

Darren: What were they going to do, insult me.

Kyle: How intimating could it possibly be?

JackieO: Well there you go, that was interesting. Darren Hayes it's always interesting to talk to you

Darren: It's always good to talk to you. Good luck with the new show.

Kyle: Oh, thank you, thank you sir. And when you come back make sure you come in, we'll put on a Mc Donald's spread that you will not believe.

Darren: I love it, you've read the the rider.

Kyle: Darren Hayes, the new song, Popular, of the brand new CD the album, The Tension And The Spark. It's out September 13.Darren, we'll see you when you get here, my friend. We'll catch you soon.

Darren: Ok take care bubye

[cmjmaria]

HUGE THANKS Jim :D

Maria

[Nabs.@.Gh.]

THANK YOU JIIIIIIIIIIIMMM!!!!! :D

[elizabeth2002]

Thanks Jim, pretty interesting interview :D

(hmmm.. no wonder Queen Elizabeth is still grabbing on to her throne!! and Prince Charles is still Prince and not King)

[Jim]

Yes. This intetview, had all 3 people in hysterics. I have the interview on tape. If someone knows how to get it onto CD or my computer, I will post it here.

[elizabeth2002]

it is not difficult, you just need to have the suitable connecting plugs from the walkmen or tape deck to the computer, it is just the same theory as recording your own voice to the computer, you plug the connecting plugs into the microphone section on the tower case

[JJ_Loves_Darren]

lol! Gosh I love that man! :lol:

Thanks for posting Jim! That just made my day!