![]() Watch the Darkness' 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman' Videoįrom the jump, the Darkness' modus operandi - "Stadium rock in pubs," as Hawkins puts it - set them apart from their contemporaries. But we were doing the same thing, but in a completely different way." And so some of that really was just affectation, you know. I was like, 'What are you doing?' He just wanted to make it look like he'd fallen asleep with a cigarette in his hand. And I was having a conversation with the singer, and I noticed he was smoking a cigarette, and he stopped smoking the cigarette and started using the cigarette to burn holes in his T-shirt. He recalls an early gig with British indie rock darlings the Libertines, "which I think was probably the British version of the Strokes, really. "But then look at what we were doing. We were just covered in feathers and leather and all this stuff, and doing the big catsuits and all that. "It's funny, at the time I was kind of like, 'Yeah, look at these fucking posers,'" he allows. Nowadays, though, he sees it more as a case of a game-recognizing game. Hawkins admits that the Darkness' bombastic sound and presentation were partially a reaction to the self-consciously cool garage rock revival simultaneously taking hold on both sides of the pond. They're the straight Queen.' And we were all, 'OK, that's fair enough.'" He said, 'A lot of people are dismissing the Darkness as the gay AC/DC. "It was noticed by a journalist called Simon Price. So the way I play guitar is probably a direct cross between those two guys. "And my particular sort of vibrato style is quite similar to Brian May's, and the sort of licks I play are very similar to Angus Young. ![]() "I think that sort of developed because when we first started off, we were a five-piece, and then in 2001, we became a four-piece and I was playing more guitar," Hawkins explains. Permission's dizzying blend of Queen-level grandiosity and AC/DC-style riff-a-rama established the Darkness as rock 'n' roll saviors in some circles (and an unfunny novelty in others, though their dynamite live set often converted skeptics). ![]()
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