A Big Night in with Darren Hayes Tour

A Big Night In With Darren Hayes was the series of shows by Darren Hayes to celebrate release of a Savage Garden Greatest Hits album. The staging was simple with a 'living room' feel, featuring a bar, dining area and wardrobe. The show featured a great deal of audience participation, drawing on game shows, reality TV and internet dating. Between songs, a male member of the audience was invited on to the stage where he was given a haircut and makeover by the tour's wardrobe staff. Later, three women were invited on stage as potential 'dates', two being voted off by the audience via live text voting. The winner was then introduced to the made-over male and the pair were served a candle lit dinner on stage, whilst Darren sang love ballads. At the end of the show, the woman was given the choice of either "taking the bloke" or winning Geri Halliwell's mobile phone number (or alternatively Jason Donovan's home phone number for Australian performances) as a consolation prize. The musical side of the show featured the greatest number of Savage Garden songs that Darren had performed since the demise of the group. This served as a kind of farewell to these songs, as he has rarely revisited them since this tour. During this tour he met keyboard player and producer Justin Shave who has become an ongoing musical collaborator with Darren Hayes.

Set list

• 1.Introduction
• 2."Affirmation"
• 3."Chained to You"
• 4."Creepin' Up on You"
• 5."I Like the Way"
• 6."Strange Relationship"
• 7."Insatiable"
• 8.The Savage Garden iPod Karaoke Challenge¹
• 9."To the Moon and Back"
• 10."I Knew I Loved You"
• 11."Void"
• 12."Darkness"
• 13."Break Me Shake Me"
• 14."Unlovable"
• 15."Crash and Burn"
• 16."Truly Madly Deeply" (contains samples from Massive Attack's Protection)
• 17."Pop!ular"
• 18."I Want You"/"Tears of Pearls"/"Violet"
• 19."So Beautiful"

• ¹ Darren asks someone to join him on the stage to choose a karaoke version of a Savage Garden song from his iPod. The most popular songs to be chosen were "I Miss You", "Gunning Down Romance", "You Can Still Be Free", "The Best Thing" or "Crush (1980)"

Tour dates

DVD release

The DVD named A Big Night in with Darren Hayes was recorded in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia in July 2006. The DVD was released in stores on December 6, 2006. It contains entire show and some bonus materials.

External links

• Official Darren Site
• Unofficial Darren Hayes fansite