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The Darkness: the story so far.
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"Our fans are the best in the world - they don't need to be told that we're cool to be able to have a great time. When we started this band we had nothing - the music industry just didn't want to know, and because of our fans, the industry NOW recognises that we have the potential to succeed. We are nothing without you, sweet people of rock. Let's take over the fucking world together!"
(Justin Hawkins)
The Rock Radio Photos
| Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:25 AM |
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The Rock Radio site let us enjoy photos of Justin by Thomas Zeidler, professional journalist and music photographer. See all photos here
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SXSW 2002
| Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM |
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SXSW 2002 - The Darkness first performed in America at South By Southwest Music Festival (Austin, Texas), before the release of their first album Permission To Land (7 July 2003). In 2003 they delighted the SXSW festival goers once again and Justin Hawkins declared to Guitar Magazine:
«‘We’re Gibson artists now […] We went in before we went signed and told them we’d just played South By Southwest [an annual festival in Texas] and we’d really like some Les Paul. They said: ‘You can’t just come here! We don’t do stuff like that unless you’re front page material!’ While we were in the office, Music Week arrived and they opened it up and they were like: Oh, The Darkness. South By Southwest. Okay lads, nice one.’ They’ve been really supportive ever since.»
…in fact, Music Week wrote: “British rock band The Darkness provided one of the most talked-about and well-attended performances of the four-day live music programme at SXSW.” This post reports two photos of the event. Enjoy : )
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The Guitar Magazine interview is here (Are You Afraid Of The Dark?)
The other links from where I got the photos and the info are no more on line.
James Cumpsty
| Posted on April 8, 2012 at 3:40 AM |
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James Cumpsty, UK freelance photographer, took photographs of The Darkness for Guitar Magazine (2003). Here you can enjoy the photo session and Guitar Magazine interview with Cumpsty's photos (the interview "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" at the foot of the page).
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