The Savage Gardener, June 20, 1997
The Making of Savage Garden
by : Sassy Savage

There are many Savage Garden listeners in the world, but not all of them know just how these two babelicious guys who make the band got together. If you are one of those fans, keep reading to find out how the hottest group of the century joined together to make our hearts beat faster and our palms sweat!

It all started in two cities a long distance away from each other -Brisbane, Australia and Essex, England. In each of these two places, a very talented musican was born. The two grew up each desiring to be an entertainer. Darren Hayes dreamed since age 5 of becoming an actor. He always made up plays and put up signs for them when he was young. Daniel Jones had his heart set on being a musican from the beginning. He spent hours of his childhood teaching himself to play his older brothers' instruments. Daniel moved to Austrailia when he was around one year old.

Through High School Darren discovered and used his singing ablilties . His first two years in high school he was labled as a nerd. After the Juniors and Seniors left, he made the lead in all the plays and was there for known as "The kid who can sing." Darren became very popular to say the least. Daniel however dropped out of school to persue a musical career.

After college, Darren started to think less of his other plans and started thinking more of a singing carreer. Daniel was fully enclosed in the world of music... he was in a band that desperalty needed a singer, so he advertised for one in a musicans magazine which Darren read. Darren immeaditly responded to it. At auditions he freaked and made a couple mistakes in his audition piece. Dispite those problems, he instantly clicked with the band-- especially Daniel. So Darren became the newest member of the group.

Not long after that, the two left the group to write their own music. They sent out around 150 tapes to different radio stations around the world hoping to get a response. One day , a d.j. from Texas played the song "I Want You" on his station. The song received many phone calls and compliments, and the rest is history !!