Having just celebrated Record Store Day 2025 (see our recommended best release pick up’s for that on this post), the Download Festival team have another glut of announcements for everyone! This includes the full District X programme – but more on that later! The one that ties in most closely to RSD 2025 is the…
Rock Sins ventures to Shepherd’s Bush Empire to see The Darkness on their penultimate date of the 22 date UK tour. With initial trepidation after hearing the news of Massive Wagons pulling out of the London dates due to someone in their camp contracting the dreaded C word, we wouldn’t be surprised with the dates…
You know it’s almost Christmas when The Darkness are on tour and like the best Christmas present, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. If you’ve even seen them live, you’ll know exactly what we mean when we say they put on one hell of a show, and if you haven’t seen them before, you’re…
A bumper announcement from the Download Festival team about Download Festival 2022 this morning! A mixture of bands from the cancelled 2020 and 2021 lineups, along with some fresh faces have given us all plenty to look forward to in June 2022. Confirmed alongside headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro for the main stage…
The Download Festival team have pulled out all the stops for a mega first announcement of Download 2021! As promised by festival booker Andy Copping, the bulk of the 2020 lineup has re-joined the party for 2021, but with some interesting new additions and replacements for those who couldn’t rejoin from 2020. Headliners KISS (on…
East Anglia’s favourite rockers The Darkness burst back onto the live scene at the end of 2019, in support of their latest album Easter Is Cancelled, and we sent along our photographer Daniel Ackerley-Holmes to capture all the shenanigans at their Cambridge date on Friday 6th December. The band played a very special 2 part…
The Darkness are back! Lowestoft’s mightiest rock heroes have this morning announced their brand new album, Easter Is Cancelled, will be released on the 4th of October 2019 through Cooking Vinyl. The news of the album was unveiled in this quite brilliant video, featuring The Darkness’s main man Justin Hawkins in his typically effervescent style….
Goofball glam rockers The Darkness have unveiled plans for a new album and massive UK tour. The band, led by Hawkins brothers Justin and Dan, launched pre-orders for the forthcoming opus on PledgeMusic. A statement on their website said: Brooding, magnificent. Like the mighty mother condor, sitting atop her rock egg in a nest of…
Words by Ali Cooper. All photos by Sandra Sorenson. Stone Free Festival promises an incredible weekend of musical appreciation and nostalgia for fun-loving fans who’d rather stay dry for the duration of a festival, based in the towering venue that is London’s O2 Arena. That said, crowds already begin grumbling about extortionate ticket prices before…
Lowestoft’s finest, The Darkness, are ready to bring their own unique brand of rock n’ roll mayhem and mirth to the United States. The “Back In The USSA” tour, with its rather cool retro-geek artwork, kicks off in Santa Cruz, California today, Friday April 8th. The latest Stateside jaunt takes in 20 cities in just…
When The Darkness initially disbanded in 2006, many believed that we’d seen the last of the I Believe In A Thing Called Love hitmakers. Fortunately, that turned out not to be the case, and the Lowestoft rockers are now two albums into their comeback with Last Of Our Kind, their follow-up to 2012’s Hot Cakes….
The gates of Donington are just three hours away from opening for the 2015 Download Festival, so it’s high time we gave our readers the final part of our preview of this years’ activities. Focusing on what is often known as Classic Rock Sunday (which definitely rings true this year, at least for the main…
