Britain’s favourite festive rock stars The Darkness are jingling their bells again, with a live version of their hit single ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)’, recorded at their headline show at Hammersmith Apollo last year.
Introducing the release with his Christmas message to all Justin Hawkins says, “As Santa prepares to empty his sack into our collective Christmas chimney, and young faces smeared with festive brandy butter gaze...
Indisputable legends of rock The Darkness have today released a new live version of their huge hit ‘Solid Gold’, taken from their upcoming live album Live At Hammersmith, out on June 15th via Cooking Vinyl.
In traditional Darkness fashion, the new live rendition of ‘Solid Gold’ is a non-stop, breakneck sonic journey of huge riffs, thunderous bass, seismic drums and colossal choruses. It follows the release of ...
“The Darkness’ live show remains an untouchable entertainment assault that schools bands of all eras and genres" - LA Weekly
“In the doom and gloom of a maudlin music industry where shoe-gazing Ed Sheeran clones cloud the middle-of-the-road landscape, The Darkness provide the perfect antidote to get Britain smiling again.” - Daily Express
“Pyrotechnics blazed. Confetti cannons exploded… The Darkness continue to fly the flag for camp cock rock”
The Darkness are today kicking off their mammoth 32-date European and UK ‘Tour De Prance’ in celebration of the release of Pinewood Smile, their highest charting album since 2012, out now through Cooking Vinyl.
Pinewood Smile has entered at No.8 in the UK Album Chart. It tops the Rock & Metal Chart and is the No.1 charting independent album, and the only independent album in the Top 10 this week....
The Darkness have today released their expletive-drenched new single ‘Solid Gold’ via Cooking Vinyl, accompanied by a video of the self-proclaimed rock legends performing in a huge aircraft hanger amongst a mass of glam-rock lighting and Marshall speaker stacks.
Frontman Justin Hawkins announces, “We have written this song to reassure you all that having now released more music in the period after our well publicised hiatus than in the period...
The Darkness have released the highly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek video for their brand new single ‘All The Pretty Girls’, out now through Cooking Vinyl.
Introducing the video in his own inimitable manner, frontman Justin Hawkins proclaims, “Dear People of the Internet. We have made this excellent video to distract you from the humdrum banality of existence. By looking at film of The Darkness preening and cavorting, you will be transported to...
England’s most distinctive, multiple award-winning, platinum-selling, hugely entertaining rock gods – and one-time saviours of rock’n’roll turned national pleasures – The Darkness are back with their fifth album Pinewood Smile, due for release October 6th through Cooking Vinyl.
Marking the announcement the band have today unveiled the spectacular album opener ‘All The Pretty Girls’, across all streaming platforms. It’s also available for download with pre-orders of the album for...
Summer 2015 sees the return of multi-award winning music band THE DARKNESS. A new track ‘Barbarian’ is currently manfully straddling the information super highway and is a palate cleanser for their fourth album ‘Last Of Our Kind’, produced by guitarist Dan Hawkins. Penned in Ireland, where the band play a small but perfectly formed tour next month, the record is bursting with the very finest rock-based music available to mankind,...
