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The Darkness announce tiny 300-capacity London club show to launch greatest hits album Crock Of Hits

If you want to see The Darkness play the smallest UK show they've played in years, you better be quick

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“When he sang the chorus for the first time, I just said, ‘No, you can’t do that – it sounds ridiculous!’”: The classic 2000s hit inspired by Queen and Def Leppard – with not one but two killer guitar solos

“I really thought people would just laugh at us when they heard it”

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“If I don’t do this right, if I don’t serve this justice, then my life will be over”: Wolfgang Van Halen opens up on his Van Halen cover anxiety at Taylor Hawkins tribute concert

The show, he says, was “do-or-die”

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Justin Hawkins blames phones for stage dive fall

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins is keen to ban phones being used at gigs after he fell to the floor during a stage dive because fans were too busy filming to hold him up.

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"I remember listening to it and freaking out – I couldn't believe how authentic it sounded." How The Darkness created the ultimate modern power ballad

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins looks back at how he and his bandmates created a “power ballad for the age” – and a breath of fresh air in an era when rock wasn’t exactly in fashion

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"In 2026, there's no better celebration of all that's heroic and daft and delightful about hard rock than The Darkness." The Darkness in Auckland, New Zealand - live review

At the end of the year, The Darkness will headline the O2 in London: This week, we caught up with them at a venue 1/20th of the size in New Zealand

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“It’s a great feeling. I wish we’d had something like this at my school”: Justin Hawkins opens recording studio at Hereford Cathedral School

“It means the world to have a studio named after me,” he says

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"Once you're comfortable in this space, don't overthink it, just enjoy it." A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins

The Darkness frontman attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of The Justin Hawkins Recording Studio

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"There are people who are almost tainted by their knowledge of music. It's almost like they know too much": How we got over ourselves and learned to love The Darkness

On October 7, 2003, The Darkness released their debut album Permission To Land. Many were resistant to its obvious charms, including us

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"When I'm peeling the sprouts, it's nice to hear Cannibal Corpse or Obituary just to maintain a bit of edge": Justin Hawkins on Christmas, being back in arenas, supporting Iron Maiden, brother Dan being a rock star, Yungblud and more

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins is currently on the road with his Justin Hawkins’ Rides Again... Again! tour

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"I was naked in the vocal booth. At first, I did it as an experiment to see if it would help, then it became a tradition": The story of the spandex-clad classic that launched its creators into the stratosphere

Recorded on 9/11 and once voted the Greatest Song Of The Twenty-first Century So Far, I Believe In A Thing Called Love could have been a hit in any decade

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Justin Hawkins takes another swipe at Yungblud

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has warned music is “in trouble” if Yungblud is the future of rock.

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Justin Hawkins brands Harry Styles 'unforgettable' and Coldplay 'dull'

Justin Hawkins believes Harry Styles and Coldplay fall short of making truly timeless music.

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Yungblud describes The Darkness as 'doormen at a party they weren't invited to'

Yungblud has reignited his feud with The Darkness as he described critics of his MTV VMAs tribute to Ozzy Osbourne as "trying to be doormen at a party that they weren't invited to".

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Evening Standard

How much money do stars make from Christmas songs in 2025? From Mariah Carey to Wham!

For some artists the festive season is incredibly lucrative as Christmas songs fill the airwaves

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“A lot of the floor plan for any Darkness gig is amps. We don’t use simulators because we’re a real band making proper noise”: Why Justin Hawkins and The Darkness like to rock the old-fashioned way

And he reckons their next album could be their answer to Exile On Main St.

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The Darkness release unique cover of Christmas classic

The Darkness have launched their 2025 festive season with a cover of Cliff Richard’s Christmas classic "Mistletoe And Wine". Frontman Justin Hawkins has described their rendition as a musical departure, incorporating elements of shoegaze and drone. Earlier this year, the band released their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast which…

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“He wanted it to sound tinny, so he literally put the mic in a tin. That’s the way he would chase ideas”: When Justin Hawkins and The Darkness teamed up with Queen’s eccentric producer, strange things happened with champagne buckets, panpipes and more

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Watch The Darkness treat commuters at London St Pancras station to a surprise live performance

Justin and Dan Hawkins of The Darkness performed Christmas songs and some of their hits at London train station

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Justin Hawkins was 'sceptical' about doing YouTube due to the 'stigma'

Justin Hawkins has admitted he wasn't sure about becoming a YouTuber at first.

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Aerosmith release first new music in over a decade on joint EP with Yungblud

Aerosmith and Yungblud have released their joint EP One More Time.

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"I didn’t like the stigma of being a YouTuber." How The Darkness' Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer

The Darkness frontman has tackled everything from the rise of Sleep Token and President to Yungblud's performance at the Grammys

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Sammy Hagar hails Yungblud 'the next superstar on this planet'

Sammy Hagar has revealed he is a "huge fan" of Yungblud after his performance at Ozzy Osbourne's Back to the Beginning concert.

Guitar World

“A couple of Ace’s people were furious. I got cornered by a couple who were asking if I had a problem”: Justin Hawkins on his run-in with Ace Frehley – who saw the funny side to their ‘spat’

The Darkness frontman felt a good-natured tirade had landed him in hot water

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“He was born 10 years too late, because he’d be competing with Eddie Van Halen”: Justin Hawkins names the guitar virtuoso who could have been EVH’s equal in the 1980s

The Darkness guitarist believes this shredder would have been better appreciated in the ’80s

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