The Darkness - Back For More!

[High Life Man]

Great news!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...the-light.html

[High Life Man]

JUSTIN HAWKINS is dusting off his spandex catsuits to reform rockers THE DARKNESS.
The falsetto-loving Lord, 35, has patched up his bitter differences with brother DAN in advance of the quartet's return.

The surprise reunion was confirmed by the launch of a new website www.theactualdarkness.com.

No official statement has been released, but original group members ED GRAHAM and FRANKIE POULLAIN are also believed to have signed up.

A third album is now on the cards as well as a number of festival dates.

Justin quit the band in 2006 after catastrophic problems with drugs and alcohol. His departure sparked a rift with lead guitarist and sibling Dan.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun at the time he opened up about the extent of his cocaine battle.

He said: "I feel bad for the others, but I can't do it any more.

"I hit absolute rock bottom. I spent over £150,000 on cocaine in three years - a frightening amount. I was consuming up to five grams a day which cost me £1,000 a week, sometimes more.

"I regularly used to stay up for four days at a time on coke and alcohol binges.

"I became secretive, volatile and verbally abusive, a really unpleasant person to be around. There were lots of periods I don't even remember, blackouts."

Dan, 34, and his remaining Darkness bandmates soon got cracking on new band Stone Gods.

Two years later Justin formed Hot Leg.

The Darkness are best known for their 2003 hit single I Believe In A Thing Called Love - taken from No1 selling debut album Permission to Land.

They scooped Best Rock Act at the 2004 Brit Awards, before releasing follow-up One Way Ticket to Hell ... And Back.

The title seems quite apt now.

[ELVIS]

*yawn*

[binnie]

I've never really 'gotten' The Darkness.

Maybe I overthink music or something, but when I'm listening to them I just think 'this sounds like a '70s rock band. Maybe I just listen to a '70s rock band.'

[lesfunk]

I saw them in 2003 when there was a "buzz" about them. They were fun and entertaining but that ship has long since sailed.
I still love their conceptual piece "Get your hands off of my woman Mother Fucker"

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I've never really 'gotten' The Darkness.

Maybe I overthink music or something, but when I'm listening to them I just think 'this sounds like a '70s rock band. Maybe I just listen to a '70s rock band.'

I think their initial gimmick was both their strong point and their major flaw. People either took them too seriously or not seriously enough. I think I saw them about 3 or 4 times (in fact, I was in attendance at their last show, and there was something off that night, so I wasn't surprised when they announced it was over a few months later) and they tended to be solid live and a lot fo fun to watch. Was it original? No. But what is these days? I always had fun watching them. and it was nice to have power chords in the charts for a while.

[binnie]

I'm actually more excited about the return of Shaun Ponsonoby....

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I'm actually more excited about the return of Shaun Ponsonoby....

I met that guy once. He was a right fuckwit.

[Kristy]

I've never really 'gotten' The Darkness.

Maybe I overthink music or something, but when I'm listening to them I just think 'this sounds like a '70s rock band. Maybe I just listen to a '70s rock band.'

Or, better yet, if I want to listen to a Queen record, I'll listen to a record by Queen.

[vaijuju]

I saw them in Paris in March 2004, I love their debut album "permission to land" Less the second! Great news!

[Dan]

This Is Great News.

[Mr Walker]

Hoping for a Darkness/Foxy Shazam tour this summer!

[Matt White]

I'm down with the Darkness

[Seshmeister]

Here today, gone later this afternoon back for an hour on Tuesday morning...

[ELVIS]

And smoking crack tuesday afternoon...

[Weeksy Lee Roth]

I'm stoked for this, hopefully they tour with Steel Panther - would be an awesome show

[ELVIS]

I'm stoked for this, hopefully they tour with Steel Panther - would be the gayest show ever - I'll be there naked

Fag...

[Hellraiser!!]

The best news of the year!!

I'd love to see them in some big festival here in Brazil!!!

[lesfunk]

Or, better yet, if I want to listen to a Queen record, I'll listen to a record by Queen.

[clarathecarrot]

I have no monkey on this.

[Hellraiser!!]

"One Way ticket to Hell" and "Permission to Land" are the best discs released in the last decade.

[Coyote]

Hoping for a Darkness/Foxy Shazam tour this summer!

I'd go for a Darkness/Zazz Blammymatazz combo...

[Weeksy Lee Roth]

Fag...

Whatever makes you feel better about your own sexuality

[Matt White]

[High Life Man]

Tour warmup!

http://www.nme.com/news/the-darkness/57101

[binnie]

It will be interesting to see how they are received at Donington.

[Matt White]

Smashing..................

[Golden AWe]

I still love their conceptual piece "Get your hands off of my woman Mother Fucker"

Best song they have. I saw them headline the second day of the Wanaja Festival here in Hämeenlinna. Third time I saw them. They were in good shape! Justin has a Robin Hood-kinda beard and million new tattoos. The brother still sports a Thin Lizzy shirt. My firend found them playing tennis on a hotel court yesterday. The seemed to enjoy our beautiful town.

Not totally sure about their two new songs, gotta hear those songs. I haven't really listened to them for a few years now but they were fun to watch and hear tonight.

Kewl