N: We're here with Daniel and Darren from Savage Garden.
Things have gone ballistic for you both . . .

Daniel: Things have gone great - it's awesome

Darren: Yeah, it's taken us by surprise - it's what we hoped
for, but it's been amazing.

N: Now, just for the audience - you're one of the most added
tracks, which means all the radio stations around the country
said 'hey, we love this', and bang! put it on. That was some
months ago . . .

Darren: Yeah, it was for a couple of weeks, which was
amazing. We had hoped we'd hear it on radio once, but to
hear it this much is just amazing.

N: Who are you affected by mainly; what influences would
you say you had?

Darren: It's pretty vast

Daniel: Yeah, me and Darren don't listen to that much music;
we tend to concentrate more on our writing, but back at
school it was stuff like sca and punk and stuff like that; there's
no real elements of that in our music today.

Darren: Yeah Daniel's more of a music maker; I've always
been a big fan of music, but I grew up listening to Motown,
Marvin Gay, Diana Ross and the Supremes. I'm a big Prince
fan I guess, more sort of black music, so I'm sort of American
I guess and Danny's more European. I don't know why it
works, but it does.

N: You decided in 1994 for some reason to go and form a
band of your own, get away from bands you'd been working
with, and go and get a recording contract.

Daniel: We didn't really stop and think that we couldn't do it,
or for that matter how it would happen.

Darren: On reflection that was pretty suicidal, I mean it was
blind faith and devotion, and every day we'd drive to each
other's house, eight hours a day, five days a week. If it hadn't
come off, we wouldn't have been too happy. But you can't
look down in that situation, it's all straight ahead.

N: So I guess we can look forward to seeing you live at some
point.

Daniel: Yeah, for sure

Darren: We sort of met in that arena, that's how we got
together, in live bands. We've spent such a long period writing
and recording, that we're itching to. But we want to get it right,
we're setting up a band at the moment.

Daniel: Yeah, we'll get a band together soon

N: Savage Garden thankyou very much, and guys, all the very
best. It's only going to get bigger and better, I'm sure.

Darren: Thanks

Daniel: Thank you


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