Darren Hanlon

”Fingertips and Mountaintops” has finally landed and is now available to pre-order from the Candle Records website www.candlerecords.com.au There’s also a limited edition bonus live version available.
Recorded over the last few months, from Portland to Pomona (Qld) and featuring a core band of Darren and Bree with Cory Gray on piano and the Lucksmiths Mark Manone on bass. Other special guests who dropped in were Jesse Sandoval from the Shins who played drums on the first single ”Happiness is a Chemical” and some spellbinding vocal performances by Katy Davidson from Dear Nora and Decoder Rings Lenka on other tracks.

On the 27th July Darren will be performing a half hour set following the Sydney premier of the ”the Devil and Daniel Johnston” the beautiful documentary on all things Daniel J.
(There are rumors that there may be an appearance of Darrens new side-project band Break-up Tape….)

The event also marks the reopening of the Chauvel Cinema which is good news for Sydney film buffs.

the film starts at 8:30 and information is available at www.chauvelcinema.net.au

Also playing on the night are Laura Imbruglia and the Tucker B’s

Darren will accompany friends Youth Group on their national Casino Twilight Dogs tour in August. There are a few new places he hasn’t been or played before which is always a bonus. He is also excited that New York based singer Don Lennon will be coming along too on his first trip to Australia. He has many questions about this country that need answering….
So hope to see you people on the night wherever that may be

unfortunately due to what doctors have vaguely described as a ”rare tropical virus” and naturopaths have diagnosed as ”ancient chinese condition” darren has had to cancel the whole overseas tour planned for this july/aug. he plans to spent the time recuperating and finishing off the new album and hopes to get back out playing shows later in the year.

Darren has caved to popular trends and now has a myspace account. set up by his travelling buddy and myspace luminary Cory Gray it contains nothing that this website doesn’t already have but hey, you can’t argue with the kids.

visit at;
www.myspace.com/darrenhanlon

Thanks to all who frequented the shows on the last Autralian tour, and for listening patiently to the new songs. Now that it’s all over darren is back in the studio putting the finishing touches on the new album that was recorded in the Magestic Theatre in Pomona, QLD. If all goes well it will be released in Australia in early September and elsewhere after that.

Hello to the peoples peering into the screen in front. I thought I’d come to the door and welcome you in. You”re welcome to hang out whenever you want and if I’m not here the key is under the mat.

So I finally entered the cyber age, a place where most people have been living for some time. A suburb I thought I didn’t really belong in, like St Ives. People tell me that I’m a terrible emailer. For Gods sake, I still even struggle to leave a message on a telephone answering machine. So I can’t promise anything. Now this is the place you go to find out when we’re playing and how to get there, and to hear music. And I’m told I should write some stories down too; just pretend it’s my old portable junk store typewriter.

I’d like to thank the guys at the Boompa office who punch in to work each day at an austere, but haunted 1900s office building in Vancouver city (the very one where the 13th floor superstition originated). For Erin who built this, and her boss Rob Caulder who 8 months ago downed chopsticks and eyed me across a tray of sushi: quote what, you don’t have a fucking website? unquote

And as always my gratitude goes out to Crouchie the steersman at Candle Records who’s pushed it all along.

And of course to all of you who’ve bought our records and come to see us play and then even come back again.

Man, I forgot I gotta go and see a Russian about some borijst, meet you later. You can let yourself out.