Darren Hayes scuttles any chance of a Savage Yard reunion as he claims his former bandmate Daniel Jones was ‘extraordinarily unkind’

Darren Hayes has put to mattress any chance of a Savage Yard reunion after saying his former bandmate Daniel Jones was ‘extraordinarily unkind’.

Savage Yard, comprising Darren and guitarist Daniel Jones, formed in 1993 and produced a slew of major hits akin to To the Moon and Once more and Actually Madly Deeply.

Nonetheless, a rift between the bandmates prompted them to half strategies on the highest of their fame in 2001.

Displaying on Nova’s Jase & Lauren current on Thursday to promote his memoir Unloveable, Darren, 52, was requested if there was any chance that the hitmaking duo would ever hit the stage collectively as soon as extra.

‘You guys don’t talk about now do you? You and Daniel,’ co-host Jasion Hawkins requested the star?

‘No,’ Darren bluntly replied.  ‘He was extraordinarily unkind to me and he didn’t inform the truth when the band broke up and I acquired the blame for it.’

Pressing the issue, Jason then requested if there was any chance of a reunion, even when Daniel have been to reach out, nonetheless Darren was having none of it.

‘No,’ he repeated. ‘I’m going to easily stop you there. No.’

Darren went on to admit that an extreme quantity of water had handed beneath the bridge throughout the ensuing years for an amicable reconciliation to be on the taking part in playing cards.

‘No, because of he has reached out various events and equipped to go on the file and type of apologise,’ he said.

Clearly irritated on the road of questioning, Darren added: ‘What he did to me was public. Look, no one wishes to take heed to about that stuff. Followers want to merely hear songs.’

Speaking with Kyle and Jackie O in 2022, Darren pointed to a press conference Daniel had held in 2001 asserting that he was saddened by data Savage Yard was ending, whereas claiming Darren not at all consulted him sooner than going public.

‘He held that press conference the place he said, “Oh, that’s the major I’ve heard of it”, which was such a foolish issue to say, because of people thought I would left the band,’ he said.

Darren simply currently revealed to Sarah Grynberg on her A Lifetime of Greatness podcast that he had suffered an infinite personal betrayal due to the break up.

‘Our falling out was fully ensuing from the reality that he instructed the world that the band breakup was the first he’d ever heard of it which was not true,’ Darren said.

Darren revealed to Sarah that whereas his former bandmate would possibly’ve since modified his story, it was a case of too little, too late.

‘He not at all corrected that. He in the end did, presumably a decade later nevertheless it absolutely was a decade too late and I truly suffered,’ he said.

‘It was an infinite personal betrayal for me and I talk about it throughout the information as politely as I most likely can because of for the longest time, I merely saved anticipating him to, ultimately, merely sit down and say the truth.’

Darren added that he initially gave Daniel a ‘cross’ over his mannequin of events, nonetheless shortly grew uninterested in being blamed for the breakup of the award-winning pop band when it was Daniel who wished to go away.

‘There are a lot of the rationale why, throughout the very very beginning he didn’t, which I gave him a cross for on the time,’ he said.

‘Nevertheless three or 4 years later after I used to be nonetheless blamed for the band breaking up, I realised I didn’t want to ought to protect pretending being close to any one who had not been very selection to me, is the truth.

‘We shouldn’t have a relationship the least bit on account of that.’

After forming in Brisbane in 1993, Savage Yard launched two studio albums Savage Yard in 1997 and Affirmation in 1999.

Combined, the albums purchased 23 million worldwide and the group obtained a file number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for his or her debut album and singles along with To The Moon and Once more, and Actually Madly Deeply.