Country Rock-Pop Rock- stories, lay back and fun a ghost playing a piano,aboriginal myth and quirky pink saloon that capture every thing wild,weird and wonderful about Oz's living down under.Songs for people wanting something different

11 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Country Rock, ROCK: Roots Rock



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Take an electric ride through the roots and soul of the outback with Darren Hume from Western Australia . On LIGHTNING WOMAN , 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 . Stories of the deceitful "Rattlesnake Rose" and a ghost that plays the piano while dreaming of his lost love "Ghost Piano," Darren grew up surrounded by a musically driven family both of Darren 's sisters played keyboard, one of his brothers played electric guitar and the other drums. The family moved from a small country town of Albany to the city of Perth .Where he currently works as a DJ and resurfaces the ice at Skaters on Ice.

These are fun songs to enjoy at home or down the local pub having a beer Its good time music . Like the rocking beat of " Crocodile Man," which closes off the new LIGHTNING WOMAN album, is a fun homage in honour of Oz's most famous export - Steve Irwin, film and televisions Crocodile Hunter - who is always in some croc infested creek trying to save the wild life and almost getting himself eaten in the process .

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 . Darren almost ended up in jail , "Someone didn't report to the city that we were going to be filming there, Darren relates," and four Coast Guard patrol boats surrounded our seaplane to arrest us because people onshore thought the film team and I 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 ! ) .
The film clip can be viewed on www.darrenhume.com

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, Jenny Connelly and William Hurt ) .