darren-hayes.de

[SGSCE] Savage Garden Supporters Club Europe
27 May 2000 - 17 Nov 2000
[SGSCG] Savage Garden Supporters Club Germany
17 Nov 2000 - 21 June 2001
[DHSCG] Darren Hayes Supporters Club Germany
since 21 June 2001 - and still going strong!!!
One day in spring of 2000 we started a Mailing List to provide fans in Germany with information on where and how they could vote for or requests songs by their favourite band, Savage Garden.
We were convinced that we weren't the only fans out there and that the only reason SG's songs weren't played all that much over here was the fact that all those other fans simply didn't know how to go about making the stations play their fave songs.
Our main aim was to make sure we would get a tour here..... at the time we really did think it would never happen.
We wanted to help make the guys more popular.
So we set out to get Savage Garden where they belong: in the Top 10 of the Official German Media Control Charts!!! (that never happened, though)
We thought that Savage Garden deserved a lot more recognition, especially in Germany, and we really wanted to see the guys work their magic live.
Since we don't believe in organized voting efforts - mainly because we think it's plain cheating plus the results mean nothing as they only reflect the enthusiasm of the fans that particular week - we concentrated on making sure that people knew there was a page where they could get information on their local or favourite Radio and TV-stations... should they wish to contact them.
We also provided a number of links to radio stations, magazines, TV channels etc., so that people could come here and easily find the email-addy or link to their nearest channel/station/etc.
We wanted to provide a service for the fans so that they would enjoy requesting their favourite songs etc. without the hassle of having to surf from site to site...
We had a base of around 100 members and many German fans told us that they would visit our site on a regular basis even though they hadn't registered with our Mailing List.
It was quite a shock to us to see how many fans were actually out there.... and our motto "We can make a difference" definitely is true...
All those people out there...
when they realised how easy voting or requesting a song for a friend can actually be ...
that is when we started to move mountains.
We reached our goal a long time ago - Savage Garden toured Europe ... the last German concert in Cologne on ..h 2000 was absolutely amazing, but there's no way to describe what it meant to us.
We have reached our goal ... and we are extremely proud of that.
Savage Garden have split in 2001 and while Daniel is busy producing great bands, Darren has gone solo.
Naturally, we continued to support Darren just like we supported Savage Garden and we're having the time of our lives doing it!
What we get out of it is this:
a lot of fun, lots of nice new friends, a good feeling when our names are mentioned on the radio or on TV ...
Some of us got to see parts of Europe we never thought we'de see!
It's been a fantastic time so far and we have Darren and Daniel to thank for an amazing experience.
(Thanks to Nic for this summary!)