Darren "D.C" Cross (Gerling, Jep and Dep) is an Australian guitarist and storyteller.

Cross’ music is inspired by the 1960’s and 1970’s mainstays of American and British acoustic guitar (John Fahey, Roy Harper, Leo Kottke, Elizabeth Cotton, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch) but he is consciously forging his own musical identity within an Australian landscape.

Cross has just released his third solo D.C Cross album 'Hot-wire the Lay-low (Australian Escapist pieces for guitar) which was written in and inspired by rural N.S.W.

Cross has been creating music for the last 25 years, from Gerling to Jep and Dep, and has written songs with Kool Keith, Kylie Minogue. He played shows with artists ranging from Beastie Boys, Beck, and Happy Monday to Johnny Marr, Courtney Barnett, Ryley Walker, Smog, Will Oldham to recently Ed Kuepper and Jim White, Mess-esque, Marissa Anderson and the Apartments.

Last 2023 he completed a 2-month tour of France, Germany and the Netherlands.

This February Darren will join Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (Dirty Three / BIll Callahan) on their upcoming East Coast Tour of Australia.

Cross is fiercely independent, totally devoted, loves telling a story and is always threatening to conquer up something magical with the guitar.

Wild Antipodean fingerpicking to introspective mood enhancers. Australian Instrumental Guitar.