![]() ![]() With all nine shows announced last week sold out, The Darkness will now play additional shows in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds and Brighton plus a second night in Nottingham and London. The Darkness have added an extra six shows to their December 2023 UK tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of ‘Permission to Land.’ You can watch Justin Hawkins’ full interview with Loz Guest below where he also spoke about how the ‘traumatic’ side of instant fame, whether ‘Permission to Land’ is the greatest debut album of all time, and much more. I don't know how many people can do that in their 50s.” I’m probably going to try and do a bit of topless stuff while I still can, and I’ll be 50 soon. When I'm this fit, which I'm kind of at the moment, I'm super, super cut. “To be honest with you, I sometimes feel like I'm over the catsuits but they always come back. “I think there was one time when we were getting ready to do a video for ‘Love Is Only a Feeling’ and at that point the label were like, ‘Justin, how about if for this one you do something a bit less catsuit-y and something a bit more sort of jeans and T shirts? And I was like, ‘Yeah, I can do a catsuit that looks like jeans and a T shirt if you like but it's gonna be a f-f-ing catsuit!’ At the end of the day, it will be a catsuit and eventually we compromised on the spangly kind of cowboy outfit I ended up wearing that video. It's alright really, a bit of a Roger Daltrey vibe on it. It's actually pretty satisfying if you've got a nice fitting pair of jeans. On the last arena tour, I was starting a gig with jeans and T shirt and then I'd come off and hit back with the catsuit. ![]() It's like ‘I'm only going to front (the band) if I can do that.”Īsked by Loz if he foresees a time when he will only wear jeans and T-shirt on stage, Justin replied: “I have done that actually. And it sounds ridiculous, but actually that was a huge part of it for me. It was one of my ambitions really to be in a band where I was justifiably wearing a catsuit. “I always had that in my head, I just wanted to get into catsuits as quickly as possible. And she was like, ‘you want to get yourself into catsuits boy!’ And that's my mum, she was right. But he would rock up at a disco that she went to, he'd be wearing a pink catsuit and seductively unzipping it on the dance floor. Justin continued: “She used to tell me a story about Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, who sadly has passed away since. So me and my mum were doing that when I was like 15 in my first bands.” ![]() “She would take me to this place in Lowestoft called Wicked Wardrobe which sold weird clothes, and we would buy stuff and we would modify it. ![]()
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