The Darkness
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Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
Brit awards: Yanks cannot raise a ripple
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 18 February 2004
WHAT the Brits really needed was a Nipplegate. ...
The Darkness: No, really, we're serious...
Profile and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 30 August 2003
"I WANT YOU all to repeat after me..." Justin Hawkins, bare-chested and squinting into in the scorching midsummer sun, has 120,000 people in the palm ...
Ash/The Darkness: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, 30 November 2004
The Darkness rolled into Newcastle as part of their UK tour. Running out of hairspray: Rahul Shrivastava ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, December 2004
IN POP, last year's underdog can so easily become this year's one-trick pony. The Darkness ended 2003 as the former rank outsiders who triumphed over ...
The Darkness: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 13 November 2003
I HAD WATCHED THE DARKNESS phenomenon from a distance, in dismay. Despite the sheer unexpectedness of their vault from clubs to stadiums, every glance at ...
Report and Interview by Tom Cox, Observer Music Monthly, 14 December 2003
"IT'S GOING TO BE a bit like having sex in front of your parents – you know, that moment when you're a teenager and you've ...
Permission To Like The Darkness
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 2004
YOU GUYS WONDER about us Brits sometimes, don't you? We're so proper and reserved, so tea and scones, so cricket, so ... just so. Then, ...
The Darkness: Permission to Land (Atlantic)
Review by Ira Robbins, trouserpress.com, 2003
TRUE AWFULNESS, a state as difficult to achieve with a straight face as greatness without arrogance, is truly something to behold. Behold the Darkness. ...
Report and Interview by John Robb, playlouder.com, August 2002
THIS IS A STORY of nudity, skintight cat suits, East Anglian folk tales, a mad dog with bloodshot eyes, well-clipped moustaches, crazed frontmen and hard ...
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