Just to expand on that message:

All this talk of solo.. solo schmolo.
The band has not split up.
Of course I'm doing my own record next but that's something I can't even imagine at the moment. It's in my 'to do' list... eventually. Haha.. I think I'm going to take the biggest vacation and really appreciate my family and life..It's taking all my energy to give 100% of myself to Affirmation and the final shows of this incredible tour. I really am giving it up for the fans at the moment as you deserve the best.

Maybe Darren really really hoped when he posted that, that the hiatus would not be a permanent state of affairs and that he and Daniel would eventually get around to making the 3rd SG album? When I first read about the split in that newspaper, it was before I had any internet access, so I only had that press report to base my feelings on. It was only after I was able to get on-line and read Darren's posts and all the other articles pertaining to the split that I had a much bigger view of what had been going on.

I am of the opinion that Darren still believed that SG would ultimately reform after he and Dan had done their solo projects, right up to 5th October 2001, that is until Cameron Adams posted that article and then Dan gave his side of things.

Janie xx