The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins thought he was “too previous” to be a rock star at 18, the frontman mentioned in a newly resurfaced interview.
The musician, who’s the lead singer and guitarist within the band, advised Metro newspaper that he thought he wouldn’t make it as a musician as soon as he reached 18 and began to review music and work behind the scenes as an alternative.
He mentioned: “I keep in mind once I received to about 18 and I noticed bands like Ash arising and pondering, ‘Properly that is over, I’m already too previous!’ However I nonetheless wished to be in music, so I went and studied music know-how and received a job in a recording studio,” (through Yahoo).
He then went on to mirror on his journey and being signed by a label, aged 25. “Then I made a type of easy-listening cassette of songs that I’d written for my grandfather for a Christmas current. And it received heard by someone at a publishing firm they usually thought, ‘Oh, this type of simple listening stuff is right to synchronise with movies and TV reveals and adverts’ they usually signed me.
“I did lots of stuff. I did HSBC, Mars Bars, Audi… after which I did the Ikea advert, which principally paid for our first album and purchased me and my brother our first Les Pauls.”
Final month, The Darkness shared the trailer for his or her upcoming feature-length documentary, Welcome to the Darkness. You possibly can watch it above.
Directed by Simon Emmett, the documentary will inform the story of the band’s formation within the early 2000s, their quick rise to fame in addition to their crashing disbandment in 2006, lastly overlaying their reunion in 2011.
The movie is ready to be launched in cinemas for one evening solely on November 9 and it will likely be accessible on digital obtain and Blu-ray from December 4. Go to right here for tickets to the exhibiting.
As described in a press launch, “20 years on from their platinum-selling debut, Justin Hawkins, his brother Dan Hawkins, bassist Frankie Poullain, and new drummer Rufus Taylor inform their story, in their very own phrases of The Darkness’ comeback story.”
The documentary arrives amid information of a twentieth anniversary reissue of the band’s landmark 2003 album ‘Permission To Land’, which options their best-known single ‘I Consider In A Factor Known as Love’.
The band are additionally set to tour the UK and Europe in celebration of its milestone birthday, taking part in the album in full on each date in addition to different hits from the remainder of their discography. Go to right here for tickets.
