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Darren grew up surrounded
by a musically driven family. Both of Darren’s sisters played keyboard,
one of his brothers played electric guitar, the other drums. The family
moved from the small country town of Albany to the city of Perth. When
Darren was an amateur performer, he won many awards when he competed in
country music events throughout Western Australia, in Albany, Boyup Brook,
Collie, Mount Barker and York. Darren currently works as a DJ and
resurfaces the ice at Skaters on Ice, Mirrabooka.
Darren’s first album, ‘Lightning Woman’ takes listeners on an electric
ride through the roots and soul of the outback. Darren brings to life
stories from the red rock country including the title aboriginal dreamtime
myth, ‘Lightning Woman,’ who causes terrifying fires as she throws
lightning to the ground. Darren’s yearning tenor voice and unusual vocal
phrasing – reminiscent of Nilsson – takes listeners on a journey of
everything wild, weird and wonderful about living down under.
In 2003 Darren flew to America to record two DVD clips, including the
country-inflected rock track, ‘Crocodile Man,’ which was filmed offshore
of Long Island in honour of Oz’s most famous export – Steve Irwin. Darren
almost ended up in jail because someone didn’t tell to the city that they
were going to be filming there, and four Coast Guard patrol boats
surrounded the seaplane to arrest them because people onshore thought the
film team and Darren were drug runners! After a lot of shouting and
explaining, the intrepid crew ended up filming the last sequence on a
jetty outside a water front restaurant, but this was not without its own
adventure. Three girls dressed only in bikinis wrestled Darren to the
ground to the horror of onlookers, who thought a porn movie was being
filmed when the frisky girls attempted to tear poor Darren’s clothes off
(he hung onto his pants for grim death!)
For dance album ‘Wind and Fire,’ Darren flew to the Hudson River in New
York to film the clip for the track ‘Wizard’s Drum.’ He spent most of the
day perched on the edge of a boat, beating a drum while singing and trying
not to fall over into the water. ‘Wind and Fire’ is an album with wild
pulsing beats, songs of blood sucking vampires, underworlds and romance.
Darren has also tried his hand at acting, appearing as an alien (with hair
and eyebrows shaved off) in the 1998 American sci-fi cult classic film,
‘Dark City’ (starring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connolly
and William Hurt). The film, set in a dark cave like structure filled with
smoke, along with 200 synchronised zombie like characters inspired the
track ‘Alien.’ He also appeared in the last few episodes of ‘General
Practise,’ which was filmed in Sydney.
Being able to reinvent himself in different music styles, Darren Hume has
developed into a unique artist. As the music on his albums is mostly fun
and light hearted, he looks forward to sharing his brand of country music
and fun dance tracks with a new generation of listeners. |
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