Darren Hanlon

so the European tour has almost begun and i haven’t told anyone about it yet. so….
here goes. i’ll be traveling to Norway and Estonia for some festivals and then making my way to the UK. i”m sorry that i haven”t had time to look for more shows. if anyone has any ideas please email ”slimsings@hotmail.com.” i have my guitar and banjo and will travel. i’m up for an adventure. when i get to London i’ll be meeting up with a great drummer called Pikelet who’ll be playing with me as well as supporting at some shows. so if you’re around please keep checking the dates page as i’ll keep adding to them over the next few weeks. and US tour dates will go up soon too. man, too much information!

HOPE TO SEE YOU!!!!!

JULY

3rd Bergen, Norway, Summerpop at Garage
with Jeff and Jack Lewis
www.garage.no

6th Egersund Folk festival, Norway
www.egersundvisefestival.no

7th Schilling Ilusa Muusika Festival, Kilingi-Nomme, Estonia
www.schilling.pri.ee

10th Riga, Latvia, Club Depo
www.klubsdepo.lv

18th London, UK, Gramaphone
www.thegramaphone.co.uk

22nd Brighton, UK, Joogleberry Theatre Juuksur www.svenskamusikklubben.se
www.joogleberry.com

27th Hamburg, Germany, Gruener Jaeger
www.gruener-jaeger-stpauli.de

AUGUST

1st SVMK@ Debaser, Slussen, Stockholm Sweden
www.svenskamusikklubben.se

3rd St Petersburg, Russia TBC

4th Tallinn, Estonia, Juuksur

5th Helsinki, Finland, TBC

I just had this interview today and the interviewer informed me that it’s impossible to touch your own elbows together. i tried it and i’m sure it worked, at least on the side bits. anyway….

just wanted to tell you that we’ve planned a little trip around this country of ours that someone a long time ago named ‘Terra Australis’ which was then modified to save ink to ‘Australia’. this trip in particular is to celebrate the release of the single Elbows, which if you look at the history of popular radio hits doesn’t really fit the catchy, instant category. for a start it’s over 5 minutes long. i thought about lying like Phil Collins did with ‘something in the air tonight’ but with the advent of digital technology and with it the CD player time counter i didn’t think i’d get away with it. thankfully our friends at triple j and other community stations have seen fit to play it anyway. I’ve heard it described using adjectives such as charming and poignant but i think when you consider that it’s about a drunk person staring at a beautiful actress it’s also a bit creepy.
Anyway, i’ll be joined on this trip as always with Bree Van Reyk on drums. Cory Gray is also visiting again from Portland to lend his old world piano stylings. Simon Wooldridge is taking a break from editing Rolling Stone magazine to play some bass and drink our rider.
so if you’re in the area, this is where we’ll be:
Wed 6th June Brass Monkey, Cronulla
Tickets from www.brassmonkey.com.au or call (02) 95443844
With Laura Jean

Thurs 7th June Gallipoli Legions Club, Newcastle
Tickets from (02) 49612430
With Laura Jean

Fri 8th June – Factory Theatre, Enmore
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au or call (02) 92094614
With Laura Jean

Sun 10th June – Livespark @ Powerhouse, Brisbane
Tickets from www.brisbanepowerhouse.org or call Powertix (07) 3358 8600 or in person at the Powertix Box Office at the venue
With Special Guests

Wed 13th June – Ruby”s Lounge, Belgrave
Tickets from over the bar, after 5pm Tue – Sun or call (03) 9754 7445 or through Moshtix link through www.rubyslounge.com.au/gigs
With Laura Jean

Thurs 14th June – East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick
Tiickets from www.eastbrunswickclub.com or call (03) 9388 9794
With Laura Jean

Fri 15th June – Jade Monkey, Adelaide
Tickets from (08) 8232 0950
With Laura Jean

Sat 16th June – Mojos, Fremantle
Tickets from the venue or phone (08)9430 4010 or at Galaxy Entertainment, Jumbo, Planet Music and Mills Records www.moshtix.com.au/Outlets.asp
With Laura Jean

Sun 17th June – Mojos, Fremantle
Tickets from the venue or phone (08)9430 4010 or at or at Galaxy Entertainment, Jumbo, Planet Music and Mills Records www.moshtix.com.au/Outlets.asp
With Laura Jean

Fri 22nd June – Heritage Hotel, Bulli
Tickets from the venue or call (02) 4284 5884
With Special guests

Sat 23rd June – Tilleys Divine Cafe, Canberra
Tickets from www.canberraticketing.com.au or call (02) 62752700

Sun 24th June The Lane, Alice Springs
Tickets from the venue or call (08) 8952 5522

Tuesday 26th July -Live at Peko Park, Tennant Creek
With supports Tableland Drifters and Band Nomadic.

Thurs 28th June – Happy Yess, Darwin
Tickets at the door.
With supports The Bionic Hearts

Hope to see you but if not take care,
Darren

”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