"Standout track for me" – Popjustice

"Closer to his Savage Garden days – a beautiful, powerful, emotional, big, sweeping pop song with meaning!" – Perez Hilton

Every album has ‘that’ song – the song that really means something to its writer, and the song that goes on to set the standard for the rest of the record. For Darren Hayes ‘Bloodstained Heart’ is ‘that’ song from his new album ‘Secret Codes and Battleships’.

The track does pop music’s job of providing both an effortless, heartlifting melody and emotive lyrics in just under four minutes. Boosted by a storming chorus and Darren’s undeniable voice, ‘Bloodstained Heart’ is the song that cements ‘Secret Codes and Battleships’ in the same league as his biggest pop successes. Written at a low point in Darren’s life, the song touches on his feelings of despair, love and hope, which manifested itself in the song.

“Bloodstained Heart’ is without a doubt, one of the most important songs I’ve ever made,” says Darren. “The song is a real moment on the album – a moment that was missing previously because it touches such a raw nerve in me I was probably afraid to write it.”

Hailed as “the epic moment” by Australia’s Herald Sun and critically acclaimed by music writers across the Internet (Arjanwrites described the song as “emotive and perfectly delivered”) ‘Bloodstained Heart’ caused a storm when Darren performed a medley of hits on The X Factor Australia, with judge Ronan Keating taking to Twitter to announce that he “loves’ the song. It has now been remixed for clubs across the world by dance megastars Kryder and Monsieur Adi

‘Bloodstained Heart’ is an anthem for those who rejoice in the savoir of love and the hope that it brings. Darren says: “It’s a song that plays on the famous line about sitting in the gutter, but some of us looking up at the stars. But at least we have each other.”

Darren Hayes - "Bloodstained Heart" is released on Monday 27th February 2012.



Special thanks to Darren Hayes and Su-Yin for this article

10 Days to raise £10,000!!!

The G-A-Y Family are running a 10 day fundraising event between London and Manchester to raise £10,000 for The Elton John Aids Foundation from 25th February to 5th March.

Come and join us at G-A-Y Manchester on Wednesday 29th February for our "Staff Kissathon" (A snog in swap for a donation) and Sunday 4th March for "Staff in Stocks" (Buy a sponge to soak the staff).

All proceeds to go to The Elton John Aids Foundation and a great way to either snog that member of our staff that you have secretly had a crush on or to soak the one who took your number and never called!

AXM, the successful nightclub in The Gay Village of Manchester, adopted the charity ‘Moni Malawi’ back in 2010 with the specific intention of completing a brand new school building project and continuing the existing children’s feeding programme in that extremely deprived country.

Two years on and the fruits of all their aggressive fundraising and their customers & staffs generosity has produced some amazing and life changing results.

Haydn Pope from AXM said “When I first heard about Moni Malawi and what they were trying to achieve I just knew we had to get involved. Too many times we raise money for charities that is then swallowed up into their corporate structure, and you never actually get to see exactly where and what your money has done or been spent on.

"This charity was different. There are no salary costs, no plush offices or overhead expenses, no ‘fact finding’ trips or ‘strategy workshops’ held in posh hotels, and absolutely every single penny raised goes directly into the project and to the people who need it most.

"Using the money raised we have now finished building a brand new, 2 block, high spec primary school in the Kambudzi Village area, and we also fund 2 out of the 3 teachers employed there. Tied into that, we have a school feeding programme that feeds all the kids attending the school on a daily basis, thus encouraging the parents to send them to school in the first place.

"The number of kids now attending our school is 634 who are all taught English, Maths, Agriculture, Sports and RI. I am extremely proud of AXM and all its customers and staff who have literally changed people’s lives forever. The legacy of our school will run for generations to come, and the feeding programme will I hope eradicate, in Kambudzi at least, the dreadful statistic that 1 in 4 children die before the age of 5.”

If you would like to donate to this charity: www.monimalawi.co.uk/Make-a-Donation.aspx