The Darkness new album for March 2012
Moustachioed tiger-rider Justin Hawkins has revealed that The Darkness’ third album could be released on 17 March next year.
Speaking to Billboard, Justin revealed that the band are aiming for a March release and are nine songs in to the still-untitled collection, with a further two weeks of recording booked for January.
The aforementioned release date of 17 March has special significance for Justin, as it’s his birthday and, as he told the US mag, “that would be the ultimate gift to myself”.
TG’s more interested in the sound of the record though, and fortunately the frontman’s brother and rhythm guitarist, Dan Hawkins, found time to expand on that.
“We’re kind of trying to get back to the more organic kind of rock sounds of the Darkness,” he told Billboard. “…I guess it’s kind of following on from the first record rather than the second, which was kind of more about the production than the songs.”
We spoke to Justin about his plans for the new album back in August, check that out here: The Darkness talk new album.
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The Darkness- Christmas Time [Hammersmith. Nov 2011]
The Darkness have uploaded brand new professional footage from November’s “Every Inch of UK” tour. The Darkness have told facebook followers to keep their eyes peeled for more footage coming in the next couple of days. Below is the clip taken at Hammersmith Apollo in November.
The Darkness- Isle of Wight Festival 2012 Announced
The Darkness have announced via Twitter that they will be appearing next to pearl jam next year! More information can be found at The Darkness’s official twitter page, which can be found here!
The Darkness Announce 2012 North American Tour!
By all accounts from their recent U.K. tour, the reunited Darkness have got back the swagger of their 2003 debut, Permission to Land. Frontman Justin Hawkins tells Rolling Stone that is indeed the case. “For every person that loved us another person hated us. That used to annoy us, but now it turns us on again,” Hawkins says.
Hawkins and his band mates will bring that bravado back to the North America early in 2012, for a brief tour starting February 1st in Toronto. The group will be showcasing older material, including the entirety of the debut album, as well as songs from their forthcoming record. “There’s one called ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Love,’ and I suppose it’s the nearest equivalent the new set of songs has to ‘Friday Night’ or something like that,” he says. “It’s an acoustic-y, swing-y one with a massive guitar solo in the middle. Then there’s another song
called ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,’ which has been in the set for a while. There are probably seven or eight tracks we’ve actually done live, all of which will make it onto the record probably.”
He adds the probably because while the band thought the new album was done, after living with it for a while they’ve decided to add some more tracks and work on a few they feel need that something special. To achieve that sound they’ll be heading to Nashville in January. They’re hoping to work with a particular producer, though Hawkins wouldn’t reveal who – “I don’t want to jinx it,” he says. Whoever the producer might be, Hawkins doesn’t believe the new material will take on a country twang, though he is a Nashville fan.
“I doubt there’ll be pedal steel, but I’m definitely not averse to it because I love that sound,” he says. “But I think it’s a great place to go anyway just to spend some time there.”
A U.K. rock band going to Nashville to record definitely fits in with the new/old philosophy of the Darkness, which is based on taking chances. That lack of risk is why Hawkins quit the band in 2006. “We started doing stuff because we were trying to cling onto the achievements we’d made with the first record,” he says. “And that’s definitely the main reason why I left, I felt like we’d stopped being creative and being fun in the name of desperately trying to maintain something.”
The Darkness- Radio Session & Interview Download
The Darkness’s Radio 2 session is now available for download. The three files available have been uploaded in the dolby digital .ac3 format (without compression). I have also included an optional album cover with the three tracks (shown below).
