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Concert
23-Sat
Literate pop songs are a hard sell these days. Thank goodness for DARREN HANLON, a man who can drop aubergine into a lyric and make it sound poetic. Tempering optimism with melancholy, Darrens songs detail the minutiae of the everyday while tackling themes altogether more grand: love and love gone wrong. Marked by an all-enveloping warmth and a wry wit, this is music which belongs to the canon of great Australian story-telling, alongside the music of Paul Kelly and The go-betweens The release of his third album Fingertips and Mountaintops late in 2006 saw Darren continue to garner strong reviews for both the record and his live shows, while songs like Happiness Is a Chemical (featuring Jesse Sandoval from The Shins on drums) and Elbow quickly became radio favourites. Darren is setting out across the country armed with this material and more with his long-term band and old friends, Bree van Reyk (drums), Simon Woolridge (bass) and Cory Grey (keyboards and trumpet).
