Yay! This week's issue isn't as disappointingly bare as it has been
lately!!
Well, to me anyway! This week we have the European MTV Music Awards
airing
tomorrow night (which you'll get more info on later)! Keep your fingers
crossed that "Truly" wins!!!!
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**Savage Garden magazine appearance! The guys appear in the latest issue
of
Popstar: The Hottest Guys in Music which includes a full article on
them. Of
course, I've never even heard of this magazine nor seen it (I swear,
southern
Cali has the WORST selection! We never get any!!), but I'm sure that
those of
you do will enjoy it!! Thanks to [email protected] for the info!
**Woo hoo!! The European MTV awards will air TOMORROW (or today, since
most
people get the newsletter on Fridays!). It'll be Friday, November 13
at 8pm
PST on MTV. Check it out, and keep yer fingers crossed that "Truly"
will win
Best Song!!!!!
**"Truly" hangs on to the #25 spot for the 3rd week in a row on the
Billboard
Hot 100. Considering the song hit #1 way back in January, this is AMAZING!!
Anyone else feel like a Grammy nom could be around the corner? ;)
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Savage Trivia
Last week's question was: At what age did Darren start singing professionally?
The answer is 19, though you'd never think that! It sounds like he's
been
singing professionally for years!! Anyhoo, congrats to those TWO people
who
got it right!
[email protected] [email protected]@aol.com
While I'm on the subject of ages, for this week's question, how old
was Daniel
when he first joined a band?
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Lauren,
After hearing about all the other Savage Mysteries going on
in the world
(like BMSM hovering the US top 40 and hearing TOP in Vancouver) I thought
it
was even stranger when my friend Lindsay told me that MuchMusic has
been
playing the Australian Universe video and the European TOP vid!! And
she's not
the kind of person who would kid about these things. But she said that
she's
seen them both in the past two weeks on MuchMusic.. weird huh?
Anyhoo, just thought I'd tell ya that. Stay Savaged! (and I'm sure
ya will ;)
Wow!! Now I'm really getting confused!! Are these songs being released
without
warning or have people quietly realized that Savage Garden's songs
are THE
BEST EVER MADE and have just been asking to get them played? I say
quietly
because with the sudden appearance of tons of boy bands who basically
send
tennyboppers' emerging hormones wild, there's no way to calm them down!
Phew,
had to get that out! Anyway, I'd really like to find out what's going
on with
these two songs, so if anyone has any way of finding out, please do!
~Lauren
:o)
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I heard Tears of Pearls too at the radio!! It always play in Canada!!!
Two
weeks ago it was #2 at a countdown!! I live in Quebec!!!
Well, looky that! <sound of Lauren's brain in complete and utter
confusion> I
think I need to really figure out why "Tears of Pearls" is all of a
sudden
playing in Canada, and why "Break Me Shake Me" is hovering above the
Top 40
here in America! ~Lauren :o)
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For the Newsletter. Hey I write 2 magazines now and its REALLY tough.
I just
wanted to say you do a great job and wonder how you do it all. LOL.
Well Keep
up the good work. :)
First comment: WOW! 2 of them?? It sure is pretty tough. I had no idea
until
after Andrea asked me to take over the SGer for her (big shout out
to
Andrea!). Second comment: thanks for the compliments! How do I do it
all? I
honestly don't know what I do that gets all these compliments from
people...it
feels pretty natural to me to be doing this. ~Lauren :o)
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Hiya Lauren! As to the BMSM and TOP airplay all I can guess is
that those are
their next target songs since they were the other two they released
on the SG
vid collection. Guess they're popular enough to give a try on the radio.
lol.
I dunno. I'm just giving an educated guess! =) Talk soon and long live
the
SGer! <3
Well, like I told ya, I think that's a pretty good guess!! It sounds
plausible
(woo hoo!! I finally made use of that Mulder/Scully word! BTW, as I
write
this, the X-Files season premiere is 2 days away!! Sorry, had to get
that
out). Anyway, what does everyone else think? ~Lauren :o)
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Hi lauren!!
well i think i have some things to say for the SGer.
You know i have mtv europe and we have a show called select where you
can
select the videos you wanna see and dedicate them,and in the evening
there's
top selection where they show the 10 most wanted videos.
Well in the select show you can choose savage agrden with to the moon
and back
and truly madly deeply.
And at top selection one day savage garden went number 5 with to the
moon and
back!
And 2 days ago,just before showing the video of truly,the introduction
was
done by savage garden themselves! Daniel talked this time!
LOL! It's amazing how psyched people get when they hear Daniel talk!!
Now if
you don't mind, I'm going to run to the Empire State Building in New
York City
and scream at the top of my lungs how CLUELESS America seems to be!!
"To the
Moon and Back" was the BIGGEST song on Australian radio last year,
it's doing
VERY well abroad, so why hasn't America picked up yet?! I really need
to vent
my frustrations on this! Alrighty, I'm done venting! ~Lauren :o)
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I'm doing a survey to put on my web page, and I'm in desperate need
of votes.
I need people to e-mail me their top 5 favorite bands, and favorite
song.
Thanks a million.
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Hey People!!! I'm starting a new zine. This is a magazine just
for BSB fans.
We'll have information, Comments, Interviews from magazines, Quotes
from the
guys them selves, Trivia, Pictures, facts and more. If
you get 6 trivia
questions right you get BSB merchandise. Including posters, Rings w/
bsb on
it, Little collector cards of BSB and other BSB merchandise. This Magazine
is
written by 2 good friends who are total Backstreet Boy fans. I am also
the
editor of a magazine titled TEEN TROUBLEZ. So please Join BSBer today.
We will
also ocasionaly have things on a few other great bands. So join now!
You won't
regret it.
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Hmm, i am trying to think of something to fill the Savage Gardener with.
I
think the weird event thing that someone else came up with is good.
ive had a
lot of those. like, the other night, on my radio station, they played
the most
odd combination of music- i swear they couldve been at a Savage Garden
concert. first they played Truly Madly Deeply, then One of Us, then
I Cant
Make You Love Me, then Sunday, Bloody Sunday(by U2, which was one of
the bands
they played before the concert), then they played Sarah McLachlan's
Building a
Mystery(also played before the concert), Closing Time(Darren sang the
line
"closing time. you dont have to go home but you cant stay here." at
our
concert), Smells like Teen Spirit, and Seal's Human Beings, and Daniel
likes
Seal, so i thought that was just amazing. talk about weird. i nearly
jumped
out of my skin, no lie. well, good luck with filling up the SGer.
WOW! That is so freaky! Thanks for sharing that with us! And as for
my
personal opinion, I had always liked "I Can't Make You Love Me", but
Darren
and Anna sang it beautifully and made me wish I could hear it again!!~Lauren
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Hello!
This week-end,7th and 8th of november,on mtveurope was the week-end
special
mtv europe music awards,and there was a spotlight on each nominee.
I tried to do a little transcript of the savage garden spotlight...There
are
some things i didn't understand because of their australian accent...
Sorry....
And after there are some facts on the new us version video of to the
moon and
back i took from the mtw pop up videos in europe....i missed a few
bubbles in
the beginnig...sorry again....Anyway,here they are...
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SPOTLIGHT-BEST SONG NOMINEE/SAVAGE GARDEN-TRULY MADLY DEEPLY
>>>Shot of TMD live
DARREN:This is a love song called truly,madly,deeply
(the concert is outdoor,under the sun,there are thousands of persons,daz
is
wearing baggy green jeans,a black t-shirt and silver sunglasses,dan
is dressed
in black)
TEXT ON TV:In 1998,the song TMD catapulted australian band savage garden
in
the spotlight
>>>a little of TMD live and the video
>>>Daz and Dan sitting together,Daz wears a dark grey t-shirt and Dan
wears
and black shirt and a black jacket.
DARREN:I guess everyone heard it and fell in love with it,maybe because
it's
a....(??sorry....)
>>>Daz singing live
>>>Dan and Daz are sitting,Daz is looking at Dan
DANIEL:It's one of the last song we amde in the recording process.It
was-I
guess emotions that we were feeling,'cause we've been away from home
for 8
months.
>>>a little of the TMD video
TEXT ON TV:The single went to #1 and sold over 1.5million copies
worlwide,aided bu a romantic video
DANIEL:We decide that we would go to the probably most well known and
romantis
place on earth which is Paris.It's a very romantic place,it's full
of lovers.
>>>a little of the TMD video
DARREN:(talking over the video)Paris is a cliché of love,there's
also some
clichée in that video but they work,they really work,they're
very
honest,they're very simple and.....(sorry i didn't understand.....)
>>>pieces of the to the moon and back video,australian version and the
new US
one
TEXT ON TV:The single propelled the debut album SAVAGE GARDEN to #1
with sales
of over 7.4 million
DARREN:It's a very enthuastic record,very wild-eyed,uummh....,we didn't
think
at all about critical,we didn't think about uuummmhh....,reviews at
all,we
just made a record that we wanted to hear!
>>>to the moon and back video
DANIEL:I think it's a kaleidoscope of a lot of songs,uummhh...,and a
lot of
different emotions and sounds.That's a bit of a mix bag!
>>>to the moon and back video
TEXT ON TV:The album's success turned savage garden from unknown to
international pop stars
DARREN:(talking,sitting next to annamarei,the brown haired background
singer.And Daz is wearing a black SPICE GIRLS T-shirt!!!!!!!!!!!)We
trained in
clubs,and bars and pubs in Australia so we spent the last 2 years building
it
up to a bigger level!
>>>TMD live with the background singers
DARREN:(still with his spice girls t-shirt but sitting next to nicky,the
blond
background singer)The success in the UK and in europe has been a complete
shock to us.I think initially we thought we made an album that was
going to
succeed in Europe and it did!!It happened in America first and we ahve
almost
written it all.And i think we can make a new album the next time around(°0
i'm
nit sure of this one...)
Ans so that is a big shock!I think i found out yesterday that we sold
more
than 600000 copies of the songle in the UK!
>>>shot of ben carey,the guitarist on stage
>>>TMD live
TEXT ON TV:The band collected 8 awards so far and truly madly deeply
will be
their first MTV europe music award nomination
>>>shot of savage garden and their bandand the backgroundsingers arriving
at
the 1998 world music awards.Darren smiles at the crowd,he's wearing
the same
jacket as the one in the tears of pearls video.
>>>Daz and Dan arrive on stage to take their award given by mike tyson
and
mikey rourke.Daz is joking and does like he wants to fight with Tyson
then
goes serious again.Dan is next to Tyson,dressed all in balck,smiling.
Daz takes the award and they go to talk in the middle if the stage.
DARREN;thank you very much!!
>>>TMD live
i didn't really undersatnd that,and what i understood doesn't mean anything
but anyway....
DANIEL:Some of the most important words of those...(????) the public
are a
vote or something you say or it's because it's coming straight for
the people
that you actually write music for so...
DARREN:(live on stage)See you next time!thank you!
DARREN:(being interviewed,wearing a long sleeve black t-shirt)This year
has
been like a roller coaster for us,and i think we truly apreciate what's
happening.I think that we will lead.......(??)Maybe in a 4-5 years
time,we'll
look back at this period of our life and we'll just say WOW
THE END
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SAVAGE GARDEN-TO THE MOON AND BACK,pop up video
>>It was extremely cold at the time of the shoot.In between takes,crew
members
had to keep Darren and Daniel warm with ski jackets and blankets.
>>For the inside scenes,a government was used.It was freezing cold in
there as
well because they were not allowed to urn the heating on over the holiday.
>>When they were filming the outside scenes,a massive crowd gathered.They
shouted so loudly that Darren had to sign autographs to quieten them
down,which delayed the soot for 3 hours.
>>Darren once climbed on to a balcony to impress a girl.His biggest
regret:not
paying attention in gym classes because he was totally uncoordinated.
>>Darren is a vegetarian.His father was a hunter who sold kangaroos
to a dog
food company.
>>Accordong to the band,they chose the name SAVAGE GARDEN because it
represents their bittersweet music.It is taken from a novel by anne
rice who
also wrote interview with a vampire.
>>The final roof scene were filmed on top of a different building to
the
indoor scenes.The band were thrown out of the first building for trying
to
climb up to the roof via the fire escape...(!!!!!!)
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I bought the CD of the the VH1 diva live concert,it was mastered by
vlado
meller who also mastered savage garden's album and other songs!
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Savage Garden were part of an article on the Australian music industry
published in the Bulletin on Oct 27th. Here's a bit from it that lists
some cool figures about their success.
"John Woodruff followed a similar strategy in breaking savge Garden.
He
discovered them after receiving a demo tape in the mail. He heard "great
songs and a great voice", got straight on a plane to Brisbane
and signed
them. But even he didn't forsee that that this duo would become the
third
biggest selling act in the world (8 million CD's sold in less than
two
years), with the secondest biggest selling album in Australian history
(behind John Farnham's Whispering Jack, 1.2 million).
Woodruff worked with them in a home studio for eight months,honing the
songs. "It was quite a process, a voyage of discovery", he says."And
then, we didn't do any press until they had made their first hit because
I knew the media would maul them. They're a pop band and there's nothing
more contemptible in the eyes of some Australian journalists." He sold
the band through out the world in seperate territory deals and they
have
now been No.1 in 51 countries. "This has all happened on the strength
of
the record," he says, modestly.
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Alrighty, this is the last concert review I'll be taking. Thanks, Kerry! :)
Hey Lauren!
This is my To The Moon and Back Tour Review.
My best Friend, Andrea and I were very lucky, and were able to see The
To The
Moon and Back Tour on July 3rd 1998 in Calgary Canada. On May
23rd, I went
and lined up for 4 hours to get tickets. When the doors open
at the ticket
master, I sprinted to the counter, and was second in line. I
was so excited,
i almost dropped the money to pay for the tickets! I got a pair
of floor
seats. I was sooooo happy to have them in my hands, that I started
to cry in
the store, lol.
After 41 days of waiting, the day was finally here. I had made
a huge poster
to take with me. it read "WE LOVE YOU DAN AND DAZ" and "Sweet
like a chic-a-
cherry cola." I name Andrea and I necklaces to wear aswell.
Her`s said DAN
and mine said DAZ. I also Savge Gardn spelled out on my nails!
We got to The
Max Bell Arena (where the concert was being held) at about 3-3:30 pm.
There
was already a line up. We were about 30th in line. We waited
out side, and
chatted about Savage Garden (of courses) where we were in line,
was right be
side the door into the arena, at the stage end. The door was
open a bit, and
we were able to hear the band rehearsing. That was really exciting.
There
was only a wall between us and the guys!
At about 6 pm, they started letting people in, about 15 at a time.
We had to
have are bags checked etc. by security, then we were able to take our
places
right in front of the stage. I was able to get my camera in,
without anyone
noticing too. We sat down on the floor, and waited for about
an hour. We
were able to see some of the prep work for the stage, which was cool.
One of
the road crew walked by us a few times. Later, on one of the
concert updates
from Darren on the website www.savagegarden.com, I saw a picture
of him, with
Darren!! I wish i had known at the time! After a while,
a DJ, from a local
radio station came on stage, to introduce the guys. Everyone
went crazy, and
screamed, and screamed. Then, Zuckerbaby came on to open for
them. I think
they were good, but I was so busy thinking about Savage Garden, that
I didn`t
really pay much attention to them. They played for about 30-45
mins, then
they said thanks, and left. the lights went out, and everybody
screamed, and
we waited. About 20 minutes later, the stage was very slightly
lit, and full
of smoke, we knew they were going to be walking across the stage, 10
feet in
front of us ant second. And sure enough, we saw Daniel, followed
by Anna
Maria, Nicole, Karl, Ben and Lee walk across the stage, and take their
places.
We were just screaming and screaming. Then more lights came on,
and music
started, and a piece of the floor came up....with darren standing on
it,
wearing all balck, and black sunglasses. At that point, the place
just shook
with screaming. They jumped right into Tears Of Pearls, and went
on to put on
a show that put my friend and I in a state of pure ecstasy.
At the end, they said their good byes, and thank yous, and left.
The lights
stayed out, and everyone kept on screaming. They hadn`t played
Truly yet.
After about 10 mins, they came back on and said "How could we forget
this
one?" And they started to play Truly. The whole building
was singing right
along. It must have been an amazing moment for them. having
5000 people
singing music and lyrics that they had written. After that, they
said good
bye, and it was over. I can`t find words to describe how great
it was. It
was so amazing. As we were getting ready to make out way our
of the Arena, my
friend dropped her purse. Because we were on the floor, there
was hundreds of
people all trying to get out, and it was very hard to move. I
knelt down to
help her look for her purse, i saw a small white thing under someone's
shoe.
I had no clue what it was, but I hit the persons foot, so the stepped
off it.
I picked it up, and when I looked at it, I realised it was a guitar
pick....one of the ones daniel had thrown during the concert.
I went crazy,
and started screaming and crying. I was yelling I got it!!!!
I got Daniel`s
Pick!!! It wasn`t for a few moments that I actually calmed down
enough to
look at it. It was a cool pearly white, with Ornage writting.
it said Fender
Heavy on the front, and on the back it says "Daniel Jones Savage Garden".
Needless to say, I was very, very, very happy to say the least!!
It really
made it the best night of my life. Every time I look at the pick,
I still
can`t believe it is his. It even has little scratches from his
guitar
strings. It`s my own little piece of Daniel (c:
It was such an amazing night. So different from the first time
we say them,
at a private concert. They are so amazing live. I can`t
wait for the next
time I`ll get to hear them live again, hopefully I won`t have to wait
too too
long.
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Hi lauren!!
French charts news for savage garden...
There's a weekly chart in france called hit machine and they said savage
garden,with truly madly deeply, was one of the best progression (since
september);'cause they won 24 places in 3 weeks only!!
And in france something is annoying me....when they show the video,they
say
teh names of the writers of the song...and the always write daren instead
of
daRRen!!!
Well that's all....
Mtv music awards are tonight!!
I'll tell you if they won!!!!
Eeek! Best of luck to the boys!! Just a reminder for Americans (and
anyone
this applies to), you can catch the MTV European Music Awards Friday
night at
8pm on MTV. ~Lauren :o)
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**With all these Savage Mysteries suddenly appearing, I figured, why
not make
a TOP 10 GREATEST SAVAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES list?? So this is what you
do, send
in as many things that you've been wondering (no need to number them)
and I'll
see which ones appear most and put together the list. Whaddaya think?
Good?
Bad? Let me know!!
**Here's our last Savage Garden concert review from [email protected]
(I put in the one from Kerry after this one arrived, that's why I'm
out of
order).
"And here's a review for you...
4 Aug 98 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa Canada
My sister got lost on the way to the Congress Centre cos we had only
lived
here for a month before the concert, so we didn't get there as early
as we
wanted. When we got there, we were kinda pulled into the crowd and
the people
behind us were talking about setting us on fire... it was pretty funny
actually and they never did. One thing I noticed about the crowd was
that it
wasn't made up entirely of screaming teenage girls. The people threatening
to
set us on fire were in their twenties. There were some guys our age
(but not
many)... mostly teenage girls (understandable) and people in their
twenties.
The Congress Centre is such a weird place to have concerts... it's
carpeted
and fancy-like... you wouldn't expect to have a pop concert there,
more like
'An Evening with the Chamber Orchestra' type thing. Yet they also had
the
*urp* BSB there one time...
Billie Myers was very good. She was kinda silly tho... she jumped into
the
crowd and took some guys hat and wore it thru the show... but I enjoyed
it
anyway... I think her songs sound better live then on the radio.
Then when she left, they played U2's 'Discotheque' and Madonna's 'Ray
of
Light'. (SvGd didn't play it, it was the music they play between bands)
Iwonder if Darren had any control over this or it was just a VERY weird
coincidence? Karl stuck his head around the curtain before the show
started
and waved...
Ben, Lee, Karl, AnnaMaria, and Nicole come out start playing something
and
then Dan walks out. The stage goes black and you can see someone coming
out on
the higher part of the stage behind the drummer. The lights flicker
and out
comes Darren and Tears of Pearls begins, immediately followed by Love
Can Move
You. I loved the duet between Darren and AnnaMaria... 'I Can't Make
You Love
Me'... Darren acted the part so well with his facial expressions. Looked
like
he was really hurt! Ever notice that when he sings, if you were deaf,
you
could tell what kind of mood the song is from the way Darren moves,
stands,
and how hos face looks? He really expresses music well thru movements.
Well, I
had seen pictures of the infamous crotch-grab during All Around Me,
But...
it's something you hafta see in person to believe!! Innocent Daz exploiting
his private parts for money... it was great!!!!!! About two minutes
into the 5
or 6 minute version of AAM they do, Darren goes wild... nuff said...
Well,
Carry On Dancing was absolutely incredible in concert. It has a certain
quality to it live... In the song when it goes 'move... closer... passion...
stronger...' Darren changed it to 'move... get closer... cuz the passion...
it's gettin stronger...' and now I can't help but sing it that way
when I hear
the CD. He certainly is right when he said that it kicks butt live.
They were
on stage for an hour and a half. Darren's voice was absolutely fabulous...
His
voice (to me) sounded better than it does on his TV appearances and
on the
album even. He hit every high note perfectly, even the one in Love
Can Move
you when he says 'It's cold down here but I can honestly say I can
still
stay'... he hit it perfectly. There's a something about his voice that's
lost
in the recordings and it is just awesome and comes out during preformances.
The light show during Break Me Shake Me added some other element that
made it
even more powerful. "Mine" was done great... the lighting worked well
with the
song. They used alternate blue/gold lights that!
fit the mood just right. During I Want You, they did the same
thing they did
on Hard Rock Live... the 'Now they will not let me leave this stage
till we
hear you sing' thing. Cept he said 'I will not let them leave this
stage'.
Through the whole thing, Dan was the only 'social' sorta one. He was
the one
that would reach down to the lucky people in front of me and touch
their hands
and stuff.... Daz just kinda crouched rreeeaaallll close to us but
not touch.
Taunting us :) Well, that's about it!! "
That Daz, what a charmer! Well, that's it for this week!! Don't forget
to send
in your nominations for the TOP 10 GREATEST SAVAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES
list!!
I'll have fun with this!!! Also, I'll most likely have the chapter
about
Savage Garden in that Best of the Boys book typed out for ya! In the
meantime,
catch ya next week!
Peace, love, and Savage Garden!
Lauren ( <A HREF="mailto: [email protected]">[email protected]</A>
)
~*~Visit the Savage Gardener on the web~*~
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