DIARY SO FAR

15th January 2001: Savage Garden release "Hold Me" as a single. Track listing:
1. Hold Me
2. Hold Me (Live)
3. The Next Best Thing (Live)
4. Affirmation (Almighty Remix)
Click here to see cover
10th January 2001: Check out the new band Daniel is writing with. Their name is ANEIKI and they are also from Brisbane. Go to www.aneiki.com to get a taste!
14th November 2000: "Hold Me" will be released as a single in Australia on 15th January 2001. B-sides and cover art are still being confirmed, and will be put on the website as soon as possible.
13th November 2000: Darren Hayes will be presenting an award at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards. This is being aired on MTV in Australia on November 23rd at 7.30pm
30th October 2000 Savage Garden will be releasing a bonus live album on 27th November 2000. It will have the first album, PLUS a bonus album featuring the following live tracks recorded during their "Affirmation World Tour":
The Best Thing
Lover After Me
I Don't Know You Anymore
Two Beds And A Coffee Machine
You Can Still Be Free
Hold Me
Gunning Down Romance
Crash and Burn
Chained To You
I Knew I Loved You
Affirmation

1st October 2000 Savage Garden perform at the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games.

Savage Garden also perform at The Domain in Sydney as the final act for the Olympic Celebration.
25th September 2000 Savage Garden release their new single 'Chained to You'
6th September 2000 Savage Garden receive 5 nominations for the 2000 ARIA awards, including Best Album, Best Group and Highest Selling Australian Album. The Awards will be held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on October 24, 2000. Click here for more info!
10th July 2000 Savage Garden Affirmation goes back to #1 in Australia on the National ARIA Album Chart. 'Crash And Burn' is still the most played song in Australia - it has now held this for thirteen weeks.
21st June 2000 The video"Superstars & Cannonballs: Savage Garden Live and On Tour In Australia"will be available to buy on video in Australia from 21 July 2000 for .95. Click here to see press release ...
29th May 2000 Tracey Capuano won a Video Hits/SG website competition in February. Her prize was a trip to Sydney and a chance to meet both Darren and Daniel backstage. Click here to see Tracey meeting the guys and her review of the concert!
25th May 2000 Darren Hayes will be performing with Luciano Pavarotti at his 7th annual 'Pavarotti & Friends' concert in Modena, Italy on 6 June, 2000.

Darren is the first Australian artist to be asked to perform in this spectacular series of concerts!
24th May 2000 Savage Garden wins 3 APRA Awards: Click here to see the media release with all the info! Check out the band's many other achievements here!
24th May 2000 The Savage Garden website has been nominated for an Onya!, the Australian Online Music Awards.
8th May 2000 Darren Hayes celebrates his birthday.
17th April 2000 Savage Garden release new single "Crash And Burn" - purchase the single for only .95 and receive an exclusive bonus poster for the first two weeks only (offer ends 1st May) from the following music retailers (click here).
12th April 2000 Video Hits promotion - Run dates are 6 to 21 May - Last chance to meet Darren backstage at their final Australian show. Video Hits number is 1900 969 999
TV Appearances:
Logie Awards - Channel 9 - Sunday, 30 April
Channel 10 News - 21 April
A Current Affair - w/c 24 April
House of Hits - 29 April
31st March 2000 New pictures added to the multimedia section. See Darren with & Mel C, N-Sync more!
April - May 2000 The Savage Garden tour dates have just been announced. Click here to find out when they are playing in your area!
17th February 2000 "I KNEW I LOVED YOU" BACK AT # 1 ON THE US BILLBOARD CHART THIS WEEK! This makes it four out of five weeks that Savage Garden have topped the US Charts this year!
19th January 2000 "I Knew I Loved You" goes to #1 on the American Billboard Singles Chart, making Savage Garden only the second Australian-based band in history to have two Number 1 singles in America!
Click here to see what Darren had to say.
17th January 2000 Savage Garden perform "I Knew I Loved You" on the American Music Awards. Click here for photos.
12th January 2000 "Truly Madly Deeply" breaks the records on the Monitor/Billboard Adult Contemporary Airplay Chart , staying there for 106 weeks, making it the longest chart stay by any artist or group since the history of the chart.
< 5th January 2000 Grammy Award Nominations Announced in the US - Walter Afanasieff nominated for "Producer Of The Year" for "The Animal Song"
4th January 2000 Savage Garden release "I Knew I Loved You" in the US
23rd December 1999 ARIA release their top 100 singles and albums for 1999, with Savage Garden taking out the following positions:
ALBUM: Affirmation - #4
SINGLES:
'The Animal Song' - #18
'I Knew I Loved You' - #27
2nd December 1999 Savage Garden announce new single for Australia - "Affirmation" to be released as a summer single - available from retail on 10th January 2000. Click here to see the track listing, including a previously unreleased track.
1st December 1999 Savage Garden storm the American radio charts with "I Knew I Loved You"!
#1 AC (Adult Cotemporary) Record
3rd Most played song on all formats
#1 Gaining Record
#1 Most Requested Song

17th November 1999 "Affirmation" debuts at Number 6 on the US Billboard Chart - the highest debut by an Australian artist in the 90s
16th November 1999 AFFIRMATION is at Number 1 for its third consecutive week in Australia
25th October 1999 Savage Garden's second studio album "AFFIRMATION" released in Australia