Joonas Hytönen show, MTV3 Finland Transcript
November 1, 2002

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Joonas Hytönen: (In finnish) Welcome back (from the commercial break), last time tonight, the last guest of tonight is about to arrive here in a minute, he is a man who has just started his solo career, the singer of the former Savage Garden that has sold millions and millions and millions of albums. But next week… (introduces the guests of the next week) …but they are here after one week. Tonight… (tackles in his speech and tries to say the word "tonight" a couple of times before he gets it right) …I´m nervous ´cause I have to speak "london" in a minute… on TV.. guess how difficult it is (jokes)… but that´s it for my problems… Ladies and gentlemen… (then starts speaking english) please welcome Darren Hayes ladies and gentlemen!

(The band plays the chorus of Insatiable, and it´s kind of their own vision of it…)

Darren: I´ve never heard a clockenspiel (the instrument, I don´t know the right spelling…) in my music before I´m very impressed!

Joonas Hytönen: I´m not. (Darren laughs) I was going to ask was there a lot of musical errors in there because, they are only starting to play…

Darren: Oh God like I´d know, I don´t know, it sounded pretty good to me.

Joonas Hytönen: Better than most of the play backs you know, for the bands we´ve had here…

Darren: At least it was live, it´s good.

Joonas Hytönen: Well it´s like allmost live… Great to have you here!

Darren: It´s great to be thanks for having me.

Joonas Hytönen: You´re actually arriving straight from Estonia…

Darren: I literrally got off the ferry and came straight to your wonderful show.

Joonas Hytönen: It´s definately one of our favourite lands here in Finland we really travel a lot there…

Darren: Really?

Joonas Hytönen: Yeah because we want to get all those duty free sausages and butter… (Darren and the audience laughs) Did you enjoy the boat ride because I can tell we really do enjoy them?

Darren: Yeah yeah… No, I didn´t really eat any sausages on this particular run, thank God…

Joonas Hytönen: Why not? Were you aware that you can actually buy duty free products like beer and you know sausages …

Darren: Really?

Joonas Hytönen: …and salamis and butter…

Darren: I wish I had known ´cause it´s allways good isn´t it to save a bit of money on those international trips…

Joonas Hytönen: Especially if your record company is trying to save on your travelling…

Darren: Exactly! You feed the band cheaper…

Joonas Hytönen: Did you participate on the ships karaoke or…? (Darren laughs hard) Those, those are really great events on the boat.

Darren: (laughs) No, the last time I toured was with Savag Garden, and umm, when we took a ferry ride, it was actually, I think it was to here, yeah it was to here, but not from Estonia, umm it might have been from Sweden, but yes, we did watch the karaoke, I didn´t participate but it was interesting.

Joonas Hytönen: Did you hear any of your songs in the karaoke what…

Darren: No but I have before, I have heard about that that people sings stuff and…

Joonas Hytönen: What does it feel like when somebody is ”performing” (does the quotation marks with his hands) your songs?

Darren: Well it´s fine as long as they are not better than me, I think that would kill me…

(the band plays with the clockenspiel the chorus of Insatiable again and the keyboard player is humming the melody with intentionally terrible voice… and Darren laughs…)

Keyboard player: That was finnish style…

Darren: It was good (makes a face expression like ”well it wasn´t really that good…”)

Joonas Hytönen: That´s why those guys are really not that popular here in Finland…

Darren: Right right right…

Joonas Hytönen: But the weird thing is that our most successfull singer at the moment started out as a karaoke singer, Jari Sillanpää...

Darren: Really?

Joonas Hytönen: …on those ferrier, yeah.

Darren: Oh there he go!

Joonas Hytönen: I don´t know if he did or if he didn´t perform any of your songs…

Darren: Maybe I should have paid attention maybe I should have done some karaoke..

Joonas Hytönen: Yeah maybe you could have done some you know head hunting (Darren laughs) to your label or something like that… Anyway, Savage Garden split up something like two years ago…

Darren: Yeah two years ago.

Joonas Hytönen: Allright and it sold like millions and millions af albums everywhere so I have to ask what actually happened to the band like…

Darren: He just went missing, he just went missing we´ve newer been able to find him, so I just… I´m kidding… umm…

Joonas Hytönen: I didn´t realize…

Darren: We got bored actually I think it´s the (I couldn´t hear…) I think that we had an amazing chemistry, musical chemistry together, and umm he just really didn´t want to do it anymore, you know bless him it´s, it´s definately his life but umm, I think the travel, the constant travel you know it can wear you down, it was something that he just wouldn´t want to do it anymore and I think that musically we wanted to do different things, so it was a pretty emical (?), emicable (?) decicion actually at the time… I mean it was difficult, so amazing amazing experience sad for it to end but it was also, it made sense.

Joonas Hytönen: Well after a huge success anyway are you still somehow like chained to Savage Garden like…

Darren: Sure I mean God I love the songs… I´m playing tomorrow night at the concert here tomorrow I´m, you know, easily half the show is Savage Garden songs I mean they are me, they´re part of me, I wouldn´t be on your show tonight if it weren´t for Savage Garden, I feel like Darren Hayes is…

Joonas Hytönen: I´m sure you would be here anyway…

Darren: Maybe but I, you know we just… J: Even without Savage Garden you would be our biggest star ever so…

Darren: Aww that´s really sweet, he´s kidding but… This is a new career for me, this is allmost like beginning again you know I totally respect where I came from and the people that got me there.

Joonas Hytönen: You´re performing tomorrow night at Länsi-Auto Areena.

Darren: Yeah…

Joonas Hytönen: I can tell you that in english it´s West Car Arena.

Darren: Okay (laughs)

Joonas Hytönen: If it makes it easier for you to perform there…

Darren: Well it´s good to know where it is…

Joonas Hytönen: So what kind of a show are we going to see over there...?

Darren: You know this is…

Joonas Hytönen: I´m not invited and I can´t afford the ticket…

Darren: Oh you could come if you wanted to come… It is… you know this is the last show of the whole european leg, we´ve done Australia, all the U.K, this is the last date in Europe, we´re about to go to Mexico and Japan this year. It´s great it´s umm, you know it´s really a very straightforward show, you know there´s not a lot of special effects whatever there´s me there´s 6-piece band on the stage, you know the lightning design is… (Someone dressed as a kangaroo enters the studio jumping…) There´s some pressing(?) there…over there… (couldn´t hear…) kangaroo…

Joonas Hytönen: You know it´s just a kangaroo don´t worry about it.

Darren: That´s a part of the show…

(audience gives applauses and the kangaroo jumps around the studio)

Darren: (couldn´t hear…) this did that?

Joonas Hytönen: We wanted to make yuo feel like you´re home here.

Darren: You know I had a pet kangaroo and it didn´t look a thing like that.

Joonas Hytönen: I hope it doesn´t look like a part of your show tomorrow.

Darren: Is that one of my dancers? Is that my bass player?

Joonas Hytönen: I think that he is a little bit worse than any of your dancers.

(The kangaroo jumps on the studio stage and sits next to Darren on the sofa)

Darren: (talking to the kangaroo) Is that a joyey (meaning a baby) in your pocket or are you just exited to be on the show?

Joonas Hytönen: I can tell you a sad fact. That kangaroo is actually the producer of this show…

(Darren pets the baby kangaroo in the pocket)

Darren: That´s pretty clever… I mean as kangaroos go…

Joonas Hytönen: How sad do you find it to be that this guy is actually our producer?

Darren: He´s dying I can see it.

Joonas Hytönen: He just wants to get new ways to be seen on TV.

(the kangaroo leaves)

Darren: Yeah… well that was cute (laughs hard)

Joonas Hytönen: Anyway about your show which is… I hope not…

Darren: Look it´s a lot of fun, and there´s no kangaroos in the show.

Joonas Hytönen: Thank God.

Darren: But you know it´s, it´s been a blast it´s been a really… (the kangaroo comes back jumping around the stage) …look I can´t take this seriously! (laughs really hard at the kangaroo)

Joonas Hytönen: (talks to the kangaroo) It´s really unbelievable. What are you doing here, go away! (Darren laughs) Please, security, take care of that kangaroo immediately!

Darren: Here it´s, we have fans dressing up as kangaroos all the time (winks his eye to the audience as a sign of a joke) so you know it´s not that much a shock to me, actually.

Joonas Hytönen: Anyway here is your first solo album Spin.

Darren: It is indeed yes.

Joonas Hytönen: So what ways you… (Darren starts laughing again) You are still shocked after the kangaroo…

Darren: (laughs) No, let´s do it, go on, what was the question?

Joonas Hytönen: It was about, not about kangaroos but your solo album Spin. What ways you would say it´s different to Savage Garden albums?

Darren: It´s hard for me to say because for me it´s my third record you know I´m, what I´m famous for, I don´t know, my voice, people either love it or they hate it. But it´s, it´s my voice and, it´s my songs and I guess I´m romantic so a lot of the, those themes are the same. It´s propably a happier record than the last one I made and it´s propably a bit more funky. ´Cause you know the kind of records I used to listen to as a kid, range from a lot of soul to Prince, to a lot of blue-eyed kind of soul I mean it has that, I mean that kind of edge to it.

Joonas Hytönen: You said it´s happier, what lead to that actually, what…

Darren: I took a year off you know, I mean I´m 30 but I was making music really professionally since I was 18 or 19, and with the success of Savage Garden I newer really stopped, and this record I actually had my first year off, where I write songs and you know I bought a house and had a normal life so… You can kind of hear that.

Joonas Hytönen: You bought a life.

Darren: Pretty much.

Joonas Hytönen: That´s what I´m going to buy some day you know.

Darren: It´s good, I can recommend it…

Joonas Hytönen: As long as we get rid of the kangaroo…

Darren: No kangaroo was fine it was, it was sweet… (looks at the audience like ”it really wasn´t that sweet” just to tease Joonas…)

Joonas Hytönen: I don´t know… (Darren laughs) Maybe it wasn´t that fine after all. We thought it was a good idea…

Darren: It was good, just…

Joonas Hytönen: We thought you were going to like it, we blew it (covers his face with his hands pretending to be ashamed)

Darren: I really did have a pet kangaroo.

Joonas Hytönen: You did?

Darren: Yeah, Mork and Mindy…

Joonas Hytönen: What happened?

Darren: Well umm, we ate them.

Joonas Hytönen: (laughs) That´s what´s going to happen to that kangaroo as well after the show. (Darren laughs) Anyway, you are from Australia originally. So the only thing that we know about Australia are those Crocodile Dundee – films. So are those like very realistic (joking) films about the way of living in Australia?

Darren: Sure. No, ofcourse they´re not. I mean that´s basically the people that live in the country side and people do speak like the Crocodile Hunter… You´re talking about the Crocodile Hunter or the Crocoldile Dundee?

Joonas Hytönen: Crocodile Dundee Paul Hogan.

Darren: Old school… yeah, people do speak like that the further north that you go and umm, and it´s not too far from fiction actually but you know where I live, you don´t see a kangaroo jumping down the street.

Joonas Hytönen: Right. But you can see them here anyway. (the kangaroo comes again, talking at the kangaroo) Please not anymore, go away! (Darren laughs) I´m sorry about the kangaroo. Anyway I wish you have a great show tomorrow!

Darren: Thank you very much.

Joonas Hytönen: Thank you for visiting here! Darren Hayes ladies and gentlemen! (Then they shake hands)

Darren: Thank you. (Walks away from the studio)

Joonas Hytönen: (in finnish) So greatest thanks to Darren for this fantastic interwiew, but now… (and later he says something like what a gentleman Darren is because he actually shook hands with the kangaroo also when he was leaving the studio)

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