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New album Dreams on Toast – Out Now! UK Tour March 2025! Buy, listen or download here ⬇️
Joined February 2011
Dreams on Toast is out now! 🔥 Buy, listen or download here: Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered it. It’s been a hell of a journey, and we reckon it’s our most favourite Darkness album. We worked really hard on it and hope you enjoy it.💙
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My lost cat came back after three years AND Taylor Swift did a sexy dance to my song, all on the same day!-JHawkins
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Our very own @JustinHawkins doing what he does best on stage with @WolfVanHalen & Dave Grohl at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert last night. An unforgettable night.
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Saturday was emotional. Justin & Rufus’ performances were outstanding. We couldn’t be prouder to call them our band mates. The evening was a beautiful tribute to Taylor Hawkins, every single musician on that stage was exemplary. An incredible night honouring an a incredible man.
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Happy New Year to all lovers of music! We’re very excited about what we have planned for 2023. And thank you @SamRyderMusic for having our @JustinHawkins ring in the new year with you last night! Yeah!! 🫡🎉🥳
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Dear Friend & Brother. we are completely heartbroken. Rest In Peace Taylor Hawkins.
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Rehearsing backstage @RoundhouseLDN before @edsheeran joined us on stage for a sublime rendition of Love Is Only a Feeling! ❤️ Watch the entire video here:
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This day 19 years ago we released I Believe In A Thing Called Love! 💘
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It’s our debut album Permission to Land’s 20th Anniversary TODAY!! So, if you please, raise a glass or a hand for our beloved first child’s big birthday! 👏👏We are incredibly proud and our lives haven’t been the same since! ❤️.
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It’s that time of the year again, fire lit, fluffy gilet on and some Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) playing. Right?
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Today is I Believe in a Thing Called Love’s 20th Birthday! 🎈We released it on 22nd Sept 2003. The song that changed our lives forever, and we still adore playing for you. ❤️👍 Do you remember when you heard it first?
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It’s been one hell of a year celebrating the 20th Anniversary of our debut album Permission to Land. Sold out tours,rocking out with all of you at the shows, it’s been so much fun. Onwards into 2024 as we head to Japan and Australia and then knuckle down to create some brand new
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Thanks for the sing-a-long Dublin. R.I.P. Shane MacGowan ❤️🇮🇪.@mcd_productions @3olympiatheatre @poguesofficial
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20 years ago this day Growing on Me was unleashed into the world. Regard, once more.
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Happy Birthday Permission To Land! 15 years young today. ⚡️🎂
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EASTER IS CANCELLED the NEW ALBUM by The Darkness is available for Pre Order: Put away your chocolate eggs, say goodbye to the festive bunny & prepare for sonic apocalypse! UK and Europe Tour Pre-Sale ticket access, signed & exclusive merch now available!!
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Team Darkness vs Team @edsheeran .7-5 to The Darkness! (Norwich) ⚽️. #thedarkness #edsheeran #suffolk #hometurf
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The Darkness LIVE at Hammersmith is out NOW! The pinnacle, the apex, the crème de la crème, if you will, of LIVE album releases, ever. One might say. magic. Just ask Roger. Get this masterpiece of LIVE recording, captured in London, 10 December 2017 -
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It’s Christmas time! Don’t you dare let those bells end!
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Our UK Arena tour has come to an end but our memories will be forever scorched (from the pyro) into our hearts and eyebrows. We want to give a huge thanks to all of you who came to see us. Thank you to our team, @BlkStoneCherry & @dankojones for an unforgettable tour!
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⚡️UK & Ireland Tour 2023⚡️.You have all been very patient. We are VERY EXCITED to announce the dates for our Permission to Land 20th Anniversary UK & Ireland Tour! We can't wait to celebrate this very important birthday with you. See you all soon!. Tickets go on sale Friday at
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21 years ago today, the greatest piano jump ever performed on British TV!. 📺 Later with Jools Holland, 20th June 2003. #darkness #pianojump
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She's officially a grown up! Happy 18th Birthday to our debut opus Permission To Land! 🥳🎂.
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Today is our second album One Way Ticket to Hell…and Back’s 18th birthday! Remember this? What’s your favourite song from it?
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Merry Christmas everyone!! We adore you and appreciate you. Have a beautiful day no matter what you're up to. Lots of Love from Justin, Dan, Frankie & Rufus aka. The Darkness!
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New album & tour announcement!! 'Dreams on Toast' will be released on Friday 28th March. Tickets for the tour go on presale at 10am on Wednesday 25th September. To gain access to the ticket presale, pre-order #DreamsonToast now here:.
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⚡️ PTL20 European Tour Announcement ⚡️.This year marks the 20th anniversary of our debut album Permission to Land and to celebrate we are going on a WORLD TOUR! First stop. EUROPE! . Tickets go on sale this Friday 24th March at 9am GMT here:
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Happy sweet sixteen to the one that started it all. ‘Permission to Land’, 16 years young today. Album seven ‘Easter is Cancelled’ set for release this October is available to pre-order now at 🎂
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It's Christmas Time (don't let the bells end) 20th Birthday today! 🥳 Celebrate with us! Request your local radio station to flood the airwaves with it, get streaming or listen the analog way today until Christmas (and all year round if you like). Only 10 days until Christmas
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We received our UK Platinum Disc for I Believe in a Thing Called Love! What a beautiful Christmas gift, bestowed to us by the lovely folks at Warner. 🥹
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⚡️ PERMISSION TO LAND. AGAIN! ⚡️.Guess what?! We are re-issuing a special 20th anniversary collection of Permission to Land which includes the incredible album expanded with unreleased demos, b-sides and live performances! . You can pre-order yours here:
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We're happy to announce we'll be appearing with fellow Suffolk gentleman @edsheeran on his UK dates! Many thanks for inviting us along! For remaining tickets visit #Suffolk #edsheeran #thedarkness
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The greatest live album ever recorded by The Darkness, coming 15 June, The Darkness Live at Hammersmith. Recorded live at Hammersmith Apollo in London, available to pre-order on CD, Double LP, cassette, & download. Pre Order here visuals by @PAULJBAYFIELD
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It was an honour and so much fun to be asked to play at @ProfBrianCox’s Compendium of Reason this week alongside @SophieEB and with a choir backing us! They sounded incredible. Even better is that it was all in aid of some great charities.
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Happy Birthday to one of the greatest, our incomparable bassist, Frankie Poullain! Let’s give it up for Frankie! 👏👏👏👏
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Our creative spark is on fire right now as we write NEW MUSIC. Yes. it's happening.
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Thank you Leeds! London, it’s happening, tonight we will bring you a night of unforgettable rock & roll. Bring it on Wembley!
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Konichiwa Japan! We’re so excited to announce that we’re coming back to Japan to perform next year. It’s 1 night only, January 23rd at Spotify O-East! It’s been 18 years since our last headline show in Japan, it’s been way too long so we can’t wait to see you all! Let’s rock’n
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It’s a great day, as it’s our beloved Dan Hawkins’ birthday today! 🎈What a man, what a guitarist, what a fantastic person in general! 🙌 . Captured last night at The Barrowlands, Glasgow.
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Liverpool! We did it, we blew the fookin’ roof off the arena tonight and quite literally set the place on fire! You witnessed the true power of rock & roll. We LOVED it. Thanks for an amazing night, and rockin’ out with us. Glasgow tomorrow!
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Friends, rejoice and be glad! .For the time has come to bestow unto you all, our brand new single and video #RockAndRollDeservesToDie.Cast your eyes upon this rock n roll ruckus, save unto your streaming libraries, and go forth and spread the good news!.👉
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So the cat’s out of the bag, that our very own Justin has indeed been moonlighting as the Chameleon on The Masked Singer! Did you guess?.
Would you have guessed that?.#MaskedSinger.
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🔥You now have Permission to Land. Again! 🔥.The 20th anniversary of our debut album is out today! So much has happened since the original release that I can hardly believe it’s only been 20 years. Such turmoil, upheaval, the emotional rollercoaster ride of being nobody,
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It’s our singer and leas guitarist’s birthday today! It’s @JustinHawkins actual birthing day!! 💪🎈🦅 St Patrick banished Ireland of snakes and bestowed East Anglia with a legendary frontman. We are blessed.
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Next week Dan is getting us back in the studio to write new music! 🥳
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BIG NEWS INCOMING! 🚨 If you’re in the business of having your fucking mind blown, then check back here for some big news on Wednesday or sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear:
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We were deeply honoured and immensely proud to take part in VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember last night. To stand in tribute and salute the heroes who gave everything truly meant the world to us.
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Check out this baby-faced band making their debut on Top of the Pops #onthisday 21 years ago!
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This speaks for itself! Thank you for having us @DownloadFest and thank you to EVERYONE who came down to rock with us. It was a pleasure! See you all soon!
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10 thunderous years of Rufus Tiger Taylor!. It was this very week in 2015 that our man with the mane leapt behind the kit and completed The Darkness. A decade later, he's still pounding skins & looking unfairly good doing it. To the rhythm machine, we salute you.
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🚨ATTENTION!! 🚨 It is Frankie Poullain’s birthing day, today!! We are blessed that the universe bestowed us a bassist with so much poise, pontification and prowess. Please, join us in wishing him the most beautiful birthday celebrations. 👏 ❤️🏴🇫🇷
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What a night in #London. What an unbelievable crowd. You were all fantastic! Thank you to @edsheeran for rocking out with us, he was incredible ❤️ This sold out UK tour is sublime. Tonight we are with our beloved Scottish brethren in Glasgow! Time to rock…again.
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EASTER IS CANCELLED the NEW ALBUM by The Darkness is available for Pre Order at . Put away your chocolate eggs, say goodbye to the festive bunny and prepare for sonic apocalypse, for The Darkness spreads across the land! #easteriscancelled #thedarkness
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You can now watch our full performance of Christmas Time (don’t let the bells end) here: . Thank you so much to the wonderful @jowhiley and her fantastic BBC Radio 2 team for having us and of course to Mark Delisser’s angelic sounding 12 piece choir.
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Happy New Year everbuddy! Looking forward to releasing studio album six and seeing all of your smiling faces in 2019! #thedarkness #HappyNewYear2019 #newalbum.
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EASTER IS CANCELLED the NEW ALBUM by The Darkness is available for Pre Order at Put away your chocolate eggs, say goodbye to the festive bunny and prepare for sonic apocalypse, for The Darkness spreads across the land!
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ありがとう東京 🇯🇵Tokyo! Thank you so much for an incredible night of rock and roll. We loved every minute of it. We hope you will welcome us back again sometime, because you ROCK!! 🤘❤️ We love you. We’re on our way to New Zealand now to play in Wellington on Friday and Auckland
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Thank you all for an incredible year of rock based music!! We released Motorheart our new album and completed an amazing 22 date UK Tour! We couldn't have done it without your support, love and devotion to music! We're keeping it alive! Roll on 2022, more to come! 💋
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Happy Birthday to our very own irreplaceable one of kind beyond talented Dan Hawkins!!! 🎉🥳
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British Summer Time in Hyde Park was absolutely brilliant! Rock & Roll ain’t dead.
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On the 8th day, when God invented Rock n Roll, he very wisely gave it to Kiss. We are both proud & humbled to announce that The Darkness are joining Kiss Kruise 2019! Together we will spread the word & the word is ROCK!! Join us! @TheKISSKruise #thedarkness #KISS #theKISSKruise
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Happy Birthday to the one and only Frankie Poullain! 🎉. Bass slinger, moustache king, and suave master of the rock ‘n’ roll groove. He doesn't just play bass. He is bass.🎸. Join us in wishing this maestro a birthday as smooth as his wardrobe! ❤️
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⚡NEW SHOWS ADDED ⚡.Due to the phenomenal demand that resulted in us selling out our UK tour in a day! We’ve added some new dates to the Permission to Land 20th Anniversary tour. Tickets on sale 9am this Friday 14th. Don't miss out this time, get them here:
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Dreams on Toast is officially No.2 in the UK Albums Chart — our highest chart position since 2003’s Permission To Land! Not only that: we’re No.1 on the Vinyl Albums Chart, No.1 on the Independent Albums Chart, No.1 for Album Downloads, and No.1 on the Rock & Metal Chart. 1/3
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Absolutely fantastic photos by Matt Higgs from @DownloadFest last weekend! Look at all of these great shots! So many!! Thanks Matt! ⚡️
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What a glorious sight to behold! 😍 We commence our sold out UK & Ireland tour this Saturday in Belfast. Thank you to those of you lucky enough to get a ticket to celebrate 20 years of Permission to Land with us! We promise to serve you a night of rock’n’roll you’ll never to
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🇺🇸⚡PTL20 USA Tour 2023⚡🇺🇸.People of the USA we are coming to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Permission to Land with you! We'll be playing the album in full along with of some of your other favourites. It's going to be a night to remember! Tickets on sale Fri June 9th - 10am
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