Interview: The Darkness

Wer wagte daran zu glauben, dass der Hair Metal der frühen Achtziger eine Renaissance erlebt? Sind wir uns ehrlich, das hat niemand wirklich kommen sehen. Dennoch schießen seit dem Debüt "Permission To Land" von The Darkness die Glam, Sleeze und Hair Metal Bands aus dem Boden, wie die Pilze. Steel Panther, Dela Cruz und Sister sind nur einige Wenige der aktuellen Formationen. Irgendwie hat das alles einen Nostalgie-Touch und trotzdem macht es immer noch Spaß, mit der neu gewonnen Jugend nochmal so richtig abzurocken. Und was würde da besser passen, als natürlich ein Darkness-Konzert? Das Quartett, dass nach ihrem Zweitlingswerk "One Way Ticket To Hell…" das ein oder andere interne Problem hatte, legte von 2006 bis zum Jahr 2011 eine Regenerationspause ein. Da hatte man den Titel wohl doch zu wörtlich genommen. Irgendwie war ihnen alles aus den Fingern gerutscht: Zuerst wurde Original-Bassist Frankie Poullain der Band verwiesen und dann war es Sänger Justin Hawkins, der mit seiner Drogensucht die Band zum Kentern brachte. Während er versuchte wieder clean zu werden, spielten die restlichen Mitglieder unter dem Namen Stone Gods das hervorragende Album "Silver Spoons and Broken Bones" ein. Aber auch Justin war nach seiner Regeneration nicht tatenlos und gründete die Formation Hot Leg. Auch ihn ihren Reihen gab es eine Auskoppelung in Form des Albums "Red Light Fever" zu verzeichnen, wobei gesagt werden muss, dass Justin Hawkins das Album komplett alleine komponiert und eingespielt hatte. 2011 war es dann endlich wieder soweit und man konnte sich einigen The Darkness im Original-Lineup noch eine Chance zu geben. "Hot Cakes" war das beeindruckende Ergebnis und zeigte die Engländer wieder in alter Frische. Lady Gaga nahm sie dann als Support mit auf Tour und ab da konnte der neue alte König den Thron wieder besteigen. Seitdem sind sie unermüdlich auf Tour, um sich ihre Fans wieder zurück zu erobern. Bei der Gelegenheit haben wir uns natürlich ein Interview mit den englischen Rockern nicht entgehen lassen. Sie erzählen vom Leben auf Tour, den Konzerten mit Lady Gaga, wie es mit den Nebenprojekten Stone Gods und Hot Leg weitergeht oder ob sich die Fans auf ein neuerliches Instrumental, wie schon das grandiose "Bareback", freuen dürfen? Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

The Interview:

The Darkness: Very great thank you. We just played the best London show of our career so we are buzzing! The Darkness: My name is Dan Hawkins and we are a pub and stadium rock band called The Darkness. The Darkness: We tour constantly, it is our life and a good one. The road can be a cruel mistress, but is always a fun one! The Darkness: The moment the lights go down and you hear the crowd erupt … and of course all the free sex. The Darkness: We don't know what day or decade it is most of the time - we just go flat out and try and dazzle people into not realising we are mostly playing 3 chords. The Darkness: Concrete from the new album because, unusually for a darkness concert, people start beating the shit out of each other and it's really fun to observe! The Darkness: We fall back on the fact that when we have time off its uninterrupted and 100% focused on the family. Most people have to cram it all into a weekend - we sometimes have a month off! The Darkness: Never. Never will. The Darkness: Amazing - the fittest strongest funniest most talented vocalist/guitarist on the market. The Darkness: She picked us - we said yes! If rock is going to move forward, you have to show the kids how its done! The Darkness: South America was like playing a headline show every night to 75000 + people. There's some great footage online of the Sao Paolo show. The Darkness: We were going to record it as a B side as we never actually recorded it but had been playing it for years - it was too good to leave off the record. The Darkness: „Should have known better“ by Jim Diamond sometimes makes an appearance on Stage. The Darkness: Argue a lot - that way there are no creeping resentments. The Darkness: I like the idea of being paid to take the greatest drug in the world - the one that sends shivers down your spine but doesn't leave you in the gutter after prolonged use. The Darkness: As soon as a performance is 'acceptable' we are done. Best to move on quickly so u don't get a distorted view of it.... The Darkness: By looking too long and hard... The Darkness: Oh yes! All we have to do is forget to put lyrics on - which is what happened on bareback! I like instrumentals. The Darkness: Not really - less goblin noises and monologues but we'll be putting that right on next album. The Darkness: We wanted to come back with an album that was really fun, sounded massive and reflected how we were feeling at the time. A magazine called it rabble rousing - which was pretty accurate really. The Darkness: Criticism - I find it impossible to take praise, or criticism come too think of it, lol! The Darkness: Songwriting with Justin is easy … I get into a zone and can write up to 10 full backing tracks of music a day...Justin will fish out the things he likes and we take it from there. The Darkness: I think bombast is in our roots as much as raw hard rock - Hot Cakes is a kind of mix I guess. The Darkness: Yes and it is the best stuff we have ever done. We are writing constantly and really want the next album quick out of the gates. The Darkness: Music only being released (or listenable to) on vinyl. The Darkness: Stone gods made an album and we are all good friends still. We would like to release it one day and probably do a tour, but TD and Bush are mine and Robins priority so we don't know if or when hat would happen. The Darkness: Cos he's fucking awesome, an enigma and was one of the reasons anyone cared about this band in the 1st place. The Darkness: Getting worse, and much worse. The Darkness: Lord of the rings - not the explicit one. The Darkness: One fan brought his grandmothers stuffed dog for us to sign...ed signed e and d on each testicle. The Darkness: Believe me it's alive and well and it's in the job description - we have managed to stay in the job only just, so have eliminated the drugs part! The Darkness: Mmm … probably for the best. The Darkness: More touring & then recording the next album! The Darkness: We have such an amazing fan base that have stuck by us despite everything. Thank you so much we will never disappoint you again - and by way of a thank you we will be rocking as hard as we can until we laterally die.
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