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 Roseand 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 ).
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