Permission To Land - Darkness

Sometimes, and by sometimes I mean roughly three to four times a week, the music media gather together and decide to dub a band “the future of rock”. Sometimes they’re right (The White Stripes), sometimes they’re wrong (The Thrills). However, did anyone expect glam-rock, yellow-toothed, English born guitar maestros The Darkness to be next? Not even Mystic Meg saw this one coming… Most of us, and this includes me, are sick to the teeth of The Darkness’ “stage antics”. They’re not clever and they’re not funny (e.g. ...  Read the complete review

Nowadays, we are so used to new band and artists appearing on TV and in the charts with one successful single release, and then not having anything of substance to follow it up with. I remember seeing a video on MTV2, and boring my wife stupid with my over enthusiasm for the new group who went by the name of 'The Darkness', and the video in question was for a song called 'Growing On Me'. Initially, my wife paid no interest in them, and passed them off as another of my short lived music loves, but then I made her sit down and listen, and she now enjoys their music, although the biggest and most ...  Read the complete review

Let's say I told you I had an album. It's an album so highly regarded that it's not only been short listed for the Mercury Music Prize, awarded annually to the year's best album, but it's among the favourites to win. Then say I told you that the album in question was by a band so well thought of that they've supported British soft rock legends Def Leppard before they had even released the album, and been chosen to perform in front of nearly 400,000 people in support of Robbie Williams. And that the album has been in the Top 10 and the band are the current darlings of The Sun. You'd possibly be thinking that this must be one amazing band ...  Read the complete review

Where in the world can you possibly start to review this album? The darkness were seemingly unknown minutes ago, but now they are all over the place, constantly gracing the music channels on TV's all over the country and playing regular live performances at festivals across the nation. Where did they come from? And what in the world is all this high pitched singing about? Well some questions can never be answered! The darkness are a phemonenon that is impossible to define, with thousands of fans all over the place there must be something great about them. Let's get to basics...the darkness are made up of 4 members. Justin Hawkins performs the lead ...  Read the complete review

**Introduction** In 2003 a Rock Band from Lowestoft released their debut album Permission to Land, It became one of the biggest selling albums of the year and catapulted The Darkness from obscurity to stardom. The band consisted of brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain on Bass Guitar and Ed Graham on Drums. They were childhood friends and formed the band in 2000 with Justin Hawkins as lead singer. After playing in pubs and clubs around the country they built up a following and released their debut album three years later. In 2005 The band released their follow up One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back. Bassist Frankie Poullain left the band ...  Read the complete review