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Предыдущая темка исчерпала лимит... начинаем новую...

 Отправлено: 03.02.08 09:45. Заголовок: да я бы с ним ничего..

да я бы с ним ничего такого бы не сделала.самое максимальное-нежно зацеловала бы

 Отправлено: 04.02.08 07:53. Заголовок: svetasavage пишет: ..

svetasavage пишет:

цитата:

ничего такого

...но ты же девушка...

 Отправлено: 04.02.08 19:05. Заголовок: Насчет того, что Рос..

Насчет того, что Россия-другая планета...
Может, Даррен просто в гараже строит ракету, потому и тянет...

 Отправлено: 05.02.08 05:51. Заголовок: Fixer пишет: Насчет..

Fixer пишет:

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Насчет того, что Россия-другая планета...

Delo ne v etom...
Vzyat', k primeru, Germaniu - on tam tozhe fig-znaet-skol'ko uzhe ne bil! Mi zh ne odni takie...

 Отправлено: 05.02.08 11:28. Заголовок: Popsy пишет: Vzyat&..

Popsy пишет:

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Vzyat', k primeru, Germaniu - on tam tozhe fig-znaet-skol'ko uzhe ne bil! Mi zh ne odni takie...

согласись из ЕВРОПЫ (Франция, Швеция и тд и тп)
добраться в Лондон (и Британию в целом) КУДА ПРОЩЕ, чем из России...и США

 Отправлено: 05.02.08 11:54. Заголовок: Soglasna... visi i t..

Soglasna... visi i t.p.

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Manchester Shows Door Time
Category: Music

The doors for the Manchester shows will be opening from 7pm and not 7.30pm as previously mentioned.

Also if you haven't already got your friends coming to the show, now is your chance because there are still some tickets available for the 2nd Manchester show on February 7th. You can purchase at the box office on the night or order now from www.ticketweb.co.ukfor box office collection.

Please remember that there is a no cameras policy at all of The Side Two Shows.
Admin

 Отправлено: 06.02.08 14:25. Заголовок: Аvalteria пишет: no..

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no cameras policy

=(((
???

 Отправлено: 06.02.08 16:25. Заголовок: Popsy ,ты о чем? :sm..

Popsy ,ты о чем? я просто подразумевала то,что в глубине души такое бы хотела сделать... но просто я не хотела бы отпугивать его своим напором

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

It’s Intense
Category: Music

I've blogging about it over at the fanclub (those blogs will eventually be posted over here) but I wanted to let you know just how much I've loved the Side 2 Tour so far.

To sum up - it's intense.
It's very introspective set list with songs for trainspotters (hey I'm a trainspotter don't take offense!) and it is emotionally quite heavy it spots. Due in part to song choices but also intimate settings and the understanding that this tour will be my last for a while. All the songs take on a sort of duel narrative and I find myself thinking a lot up on stage. Audiences both nights have been superb and as I type this I'm about to run out the door for Manchester.

We're recording Casey live each night on this tour - and there's a bunch of ways folks can get their hands on the song from their show. I'll get admin to paste all the info below but basically UK peeps can text to pre order it (you get a text back day before release date and a code to download from tunetribe.com -
it's just charged to your phone account) Also, because so many people have asked we're also going to make the songs downloadable via our site and tunetribe day of release too.

Anyway, all the details will be below.
I just really wanted to explain why there's a hushed reference when we perform 'Casey' each night. It's because the record button is on! Hehe.

Much love to you..
x

Download the new single 'CASEY' as performed LIVE each night!

TEXT TO BUY NOW! DELIVERED TO YOU DIGITALLY MARCH 3RD

Casey - Live In London, Feb 3 Text CASLON1 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In London, Feb 4 Text CASLON2 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Manchester, Feb 6 Text CASMAN1 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Manchester, Feb 7 Text CASMAN2 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Bristol, Feb 11 Text CASBRS and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Brighton, Feb 15 Text CASBRI and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Birmingham, Feb 17 Text CASBIR1 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In Birmingham, Feb 18 Text CASBIR2 and send to 82822
Casey - Live In London, Feb 24 Text CASLON3 and send to 82822
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 Отправлено: 08.02.08 14:48. Заголовок: :sm64: коммерсанты..

коммерсанты

 Отправлено: 08.02.08 21:24. Заголовок: Деловые люди :sm5: ..

Деловые люди

Прям от гордости за них распирает ..

 Отправлено: 10.02.08 21:13. Заголовок: Новое фото: http://..

Новое фото:

 Отправлено: 11.02.08 03:07. Заголовок: :sm19: :sm36: :sm..

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

London Feb 3rd ‘Side 2 Tour’

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 4th 2008.

My thoughts on tonight are jumbled so let me share them with you. In no particular order..
It's a challenging set list.

Vocally, verbally (yikes lyrics!) and of course emotionally.

Now that you are all aware of the songs performed I can discuss in more detail why it was challenging.

First of all there is no drummer.

Which was intentional – to make the shows be less about rocking out and more about voice and song choices and to showcase the material off the new album which is heavily influenced by Justin and I sitting in a room together. I wanted the show to feel a bit like coming round to listen to us do some songs rather than a 'show'.

But having no drummer makes the music feel more, I don't know, intellectual?

Like you want to 'listen' rather than rock out.

As a performer, the pleaser, the part of me that wants to make sure everyone is having a good time – is aware that it would be easier to just do a more traditional gig.

Doing a more obscure set list is a delicate balance to pull off – because instinct makes you want to reach for the 'gun' so to speak.

And by 'gun' I mean HIT SONGS.

This is the first time I've toured with such an obscure set list.

A fan's dream, I would hope.

But not necessarily a casual listener's favourite material I would imagine.

Thoughts of that Prince gig I saw once where he only played experimental Jazz come to mind!

But that being said, it was called the Side 2 Tour for a reason. To suggest album tracks, b sides, rarer things. So on that front I'd hope that we delivered.

But it was interesting because I could feel all 3 of us actually coming to grips with it on stage. Thinking, quite literally, 'ohhh so THIS is a different way of moving..'.

We're so used to having the power of, say, a big production. Or the ease of throwing in something like 'Carry on Amadeus' or 'The Best Thing' as an instant crowd pleaser.

Tonight it was realizing that, no, this is something altogether different.

A point of difference to the Time Machine Tour.

It could only be played to a crowd who have seen a lot of what I do and would appreciate the dusted off treasures.

Be interesting to see how this unfolds.. ;)

I will say, I just read what Cat had to say in her post about the cold shivers. And I feel the same way to be honest. There's something heavy about this set list. And though it would be more entertaining in some ways not to be heavy – I kind of like it. In many ways as a show it reminds me of what 'The Tension and The Spark' was as an album. A bit uncomfortable but utterly pivotal.

Xx

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

London Feb 4th
Category: Music

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 5th 2008.

Talk about night and day.

THAT was a wonderful gig.

I was so much more relaxed on stage (*owing in full I'm sure to getting over first night jitters and the TERROR of new songs first time blah blah).

And there was a really tight connection between Steve, Shave and I.

We changed the order of a couple songs by moving Gunning Down Romance and that fact alone seemed to give us a little bit more room to ramp up tonight. 100 Challenging felt better at this tempo (we sped it up just a little) and Dirty was fun! Little bits of I Want You and Britney thrown in for good measure. Worked a treat.

I got a chance to say hi to a few people afterwards. Some who'd travelled form the other side of the city and some from the other side of the world.

And I got to share the TRUTH about the Insatiable video (ask your friends).

Mhwahah.

It was lovely.

Just lovely.

x

 Отправлено: 19.02.08 23:52. Заголовок: Мне очень понравилос..

Мне очень понравилось "blah blah" и "Mhwahah"......

Смакующий Даррен...

 Отправлено: 20.02.08 07:20. Заголовок: http://blog.myspace...

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Manchester First Show
Category: Music

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 6th 2008.


Spent the most hilarious 2 and half hours on the Virgin train (not an untouched by man train but a train run by, err, Virgin..) Anyhoo it was the unveiling of A.D.D Darren to Tracey (my P.A) and at one point Steve asked Tracey if there was a child's play pen I could be placed in. I guess I had a lot of spare energy.

Got excited about the gig tonight and about how the future is unfolding. Really looking forward to a break. When the tour is over I'm hoping to go visit my family and then take a good chunk of time for me.

Feel so good to be happy in the present. Not looking back. Not hoping forward. Just comfortable where it is right now. And the best thing about things winding down is that there is less stress around me.

The last 12 months, while amazing, have also been very taxing emotionally. Work wise it's been an overwhelming amount of pressure (running the label) and it had begun to drain me a bit. It's so lovely to be able to come out on the road and reconnect with music and the audiences and remember why it is I do what I do.

Here's a lil' picture of me in my hotel room looking out over Manchester.



It's so pretty here today. Gorgeous blue skies but cold temperatures. We drove past where the old Hacienda used to be and I got sad that I never got to see it in person. Now it's a block of flats. Everything gets turned into a block of flats doesn't it.

Right now I'm finished sound check and I'm going to turn the shower on and try to steam my voice a bit in preparation for tonight's vocal gymnastics. Why oh why do I write such high notes? Hehe.

I'll write later to let you know how the gig was.

Much love
D

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Monday, February 18, 2008

Manchester Part 2
Category: Music

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 6th 2008.

Ok so I'm just in from the gig.
I probably should just tell you what I told my sister.. great crowd.
No, amazing crowd.
I always love Manchester and the North because we get such a generous amount of affection from the audience.
But there was one WANKER. Or shall I say a gaggle of wankers.
2 or 3 of them. Maybe 4.
(see what I did there?)
Anyway maybe they were drunk.
Maybe they were just really excited.
Or maybe they'd stumbled in for free.
I don't know.
But they were so rude. Talking LOUDLY in the quieter moments. Heckling. Yelling out song requests and at one point yelling 'Boring!'.

My sister said, what did you do?

And I told her.

I said to the crowd, and I quote
"I'd sleep with pretty much 99% of the people in this room but I'd like to physically
hurt the person who is being rude".

With that the entire crowd cheered and the people closest to the WANKER cheered the loudest.

I basically said if they didn't shut up the people next to them would physically remove each of their eyelashes one by one.

They behaved themselves after that.

It was so weird too because I was just about to sing '100 Challenging Things', which is really one of the saddest and most personal songs I've ever written. I was telling the tale about how it's a song for a Mother and a Father who died too young and left their son here to remind me that my own problems pale into insignificance. When the hecklers stopped I explained how the Father was a coal miner who hated the dark and the Mother was a stranger in a foreign country and that they worked all their lives to escape to the sun.
And the sad irony is the minute they made it, and only in the 50's – she passed away suddenly and he died of the C word but I suspect more from a broken heart.

Anyway the point of the song is that, upon meeting their son who survived – and seeing the sparkle and the joy in his eyes and witnessing his positive outlook on life I felt ashamed to have gone on so much about my own woes in life. That at least I had the luxury of parents alive whom I could blame for what was wrong with me. And that's when I fell in love.

So the gig – on fire, alive, tense, intense, cheeky, flirty, heartfelt and a bit of a struggle physically (said to my sister it's like a runner after training for a few days – suddenly all the muscles ache a few shows in and you start to feel the hard work of singing taking its toll).

But it wasn't really about any of that. Because afterwards I met the family of the courageous Amanda whom many of you will remember spent some of her last moments on stage giving me a cheeky hug during the Time Machine Tour.

I'd kept in touch after the funeral and because Amanda had bought tickets to this tour, her husband and sister went in her memory.

They gave me the biggest hugs (must run in the family) and once again I was reminded of how lucky we all are and how our problems pale into insignificance when we are confronted with true loss.

And I felt glad I'd experienced tonight, and told my stories and sung my songs.

With love
Darren

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Holy snappin duck shit
Category: Music

Originally posted in the members area of Darrens Official Fanclub 'Delicacy' Feb 7th 2008.

Holy snappin' duck shit.

I can't believe I talked about having 'the runs' on stage!

But God it was funny.

Anyway I told that story.

I felt on fire (not from my ass, thankfully that had gone..)

But musically.

We were on fire.

Sang Unlovable at the end just because we felt like it.

Added a bit of 'What you need' into Dirty tonight..

And some 'Running up that Hill' into 'Conversation..'

Brilliant brilliant audience and a wonderful town.

Thank you so much Manchester.

All was amazing until the last second.. I left the stage

So full 'o' energy and did a little jump! ONLY TO CRACK MY HEAD ON THE LOW CONCRETE CEILING and land on my ass!

So it ended where it began really.

With the rear end.

Hehe..

xxD