Happy Darren

I ALWAYS KNEW THAT IF I EVER MADE A CHRISTMAS ALBUM, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE MUCH MORE THAN JUST A COLLECTION OF SONGS YOU ALREADY KNEW, I’D WANT IT TO BE A JOURNEY THROUGH SONGS THAT NOT ONLY HAD A PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE TO MY LIFE, BUT ALSO A UNIQUE INTRODUCTION TO SONGS FOLKS HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE, AND A RE-INTRODUCTION TO A FEW THEY MIGHT THINK THEY KNOW- BUT HAVE NEVER CONSIDERED DIFFERENTLY. EVERY ECLECTIC CHOICE LED THIS ALBUM TO FEEL ASTUTELY TRUE TO ITS NAMESAKE: A VERY, INDISPUTABLY, ‘ME’ CHRISTMAS.

In 1995 the band started writing and recording material for a fourth album, I'm Not Happy, Darren left by mutual agreement. Using their own studio and recording on ADAT Jon E. Love re-joined and the band produced and engineered its 4th release. Two side projects were also formed and started playing gigs. 'Skoe', with Skid, Jon E. and Joey and 'Sineaters' with Jizzy and Joey. At a Sineaters gig Jizzy was approached by Mayhem Records, who wanted to release I'm Not Happy. In December 1995 they played a two-week tour in Germany.

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Celebrate the holidays with A Very Darren Crissmas! Darren Criss is a multitalented musician and songwriter, Broadway star, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor—famous for his award-winning roles on VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, GLEE, and HOLLYWOOD.

Celebrate the holidays with A Very Darren Crissmas! Darren Criss is a multitalented musician and songwriter, Broadway star, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor—famous for his award-winning roles on VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, GLEE, and HOLLYWOOD. His holiday record with Decca Records U.S. will be his first full length album.

Three CD set. Ministry of Sounds legendary Back To The Old Skool series makes a turbo-charged return with Happy Hardcore a collection celebrating 30 years of the very best Old Skool Hardcore classics selected by two juggernauts of the scene - Dougal and Hixxy. Early hardcore producers evolved in a period when techno was developing a harder edge, exploring the complex breakbeats that would later manifest themselves as jungle and the subsequent development of drum and bass. The album features a selection of all-time classics from the biggest artists the scene has ever produced including Scott Brown, Force & Styles, Paul Elstak, Ultrabeat, Sy & Unknown, Hocus Pocus, Sharkey and many more.

"The Ballad of Darren is the first legit [Blur] album since 13," Blur vocalist Damon Albarn recently told Consequence of Sound. Putting aside Think Tank (2003), which saw guitarist Graham Coxon's exit, and 2015's The Magic Whip (which was reportedly pieced together by Coxon after Albarn threw in the towel), that's 24 years.

This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two.