Like clockwork, as they have since 2015’s Last of Our Kind, The Darkness are back two years on from their last album with their latest. In 2017, I declared Pinewood Smile as the best album from The Darkness since their debut crash-landed from nowhere. An opinion I reiterated when reviewing Easter is Cancelled. Well, Pinewood … Continue reading Album Review: The Darkness – Motorheart
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The Darkness announce brand new album and UK tour
UK glam rock giants The Darkness have announced their brilliant new album Motorheart, set for release on October 15th, via Cooking Vinyl. The new album is available for pre-order from the band’s official store on exclusive formats and signed bundles including deluxe CD with bonus tracks, exclusive colour LP and tape. Fans who pre-order the … Continue reading The Darkness announce brand new album and UK tour
The Darkness announced to headline Steelhouse 2021
Steelhouse fans are in for a real treat as The Darkness have been given Permission To Land, and have booked their One Way Tickets To The Top Of The Mountain... And Back. Fans should do the same. Who better to fill the prestigious Saturday night headliner slot as Britain emerges from the shadow of Covid … Continue reading The Darkness announced to headline Steelhouse 2021
Gig Review: The Darkness / Rews – York Barbican (17th December 2019)
While fans of pop music look forward to Michael Bublé being wheeled out of the cave he has been hiding in all year to spread a little bit of festival cheer, rock fans have what seems to be an annual rock n' rock pantomime provided by The Darkness to get them in the Christmas spirit. … Continue reading Gig Review: The Darkness / Rews – York Barbican (17th December 2019)
Album Review: The Darkness – Easter is Cancelled
In 2017, The Darkness unleashed their finest opus since their debut. Much like Permission to Land, Pinewood Smile was an album for the ages. It was the most Darkness album they’d ever recorded. Full of chunky, balls-out riffs, taking the piss out of Southern Rail, the music industry and questioning why good-looking people don’t cry … Continue reading Album Review: The Darkness – Easter is Cancelled
The Darkness release first single from “Easter is Cancelled”
The Darkness have released their brand new single "Rock And Roll Deserves To Die", accompanied by a brilliantly entertaining video. It’s the first taste of their jaw-droppingly ambitious new album Easter Is Cancelled, out on October 4th through Cooking Vinyl. From chiming, acoustic beginnings, "Rock And Roll Deserves To Die" explodes into an epic five-minute … Continue reading The Darkness release first single from “Easter is Cancelled”