The Darkness have announced their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast will launch March 2025. Lead single ‘The Longest Kiss’ is out now, an upbeat pop rocker that channels Queen and Paul McCartney.
To celebrate the release of Dreams On Toast, The Darkness will be hitting the road next March for their largest headline tour of the UK.
The Dreams On Toast UK headline tour will see them play 17 shows across the country finishing at London’s OVO Wembley Arena on March 29 2025. Support comes from Northern Irish indie-rock band Ash, who first supported The Darkness on their Permission To Land Tour over 20 years ago.
The Dreams On Toast UK headline tour will see them play 17 shows across the country finishing at London’s OVO Wembley Arena on March 29 2025…
“You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist,” comments frontman Justin Hawkins. “God might not be the power she once was, but say what you like about her, she knows damn well that what the world needs now, is rock sweet rock. And who are we, mere mortals of extraordinary ability, to argue with the divine?
“So we knuckled down and thought really hard about the best of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages. Then we popped out a dozen bangers before lunch. And these bangers we present to you here, wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries… ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dreams On Toast!”
Of the single, Justin says, “Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn name, that’s the kind of scenery that I love. I awakened to such a vista in the delightful Scottish highland town of Nairn on the morning that inspiration for ‘The Longest Kiss’ lyric struck. I was bleary eyed and locked in an unending embrace with my (mid)life partner. Weird that I can still sing, but that’s a testament to the resilience of humans, especially lead singers.
“The music itself is a piano-led composition, the chorus of which my brother and I came up with after he’d taken a long time to empty his bladder during some impressive pub endurance. The verses were transposed from a song I’ve been working on for decades as part of a musical about the collapse of the Lowestoft fishing industry, called ‘The Collapse Of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry’.
Ticket pre-sale, including VIP upgrades, opens at 10am on September 25 and will remain live until any remaining tickets go on general sale at 10am on September 27.
The Darkness recently found themselves back on top of the charts, when Taylor Swift was seen singing along to ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ at the US Open. As a result her legions of fans sent the track hurtling up charts, including reaching Number 1 in the US iTunes Rock Chart, 21 years after its release.
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The Darkness have announced their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast will launch March 2025. Lead single ‘The Longest Kiss’ is out now, an upbeat pop rocker that channels Queen and Paul McCartney.
To celebrate the release of Dreams On Toast, The Darkness will be hitting the road next March for their largest headline tour of the UK.
The Dreams On Toast UK headline tour will see them play 17 shows across the country finishing at London’s OVO Wembley Arena on March 29 2025. Support comes from Northern Irish indie-rock band Ash, who first supported The Darkness on their Permission To Land Tour over 20 years ago.
“You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist,” comments frontman Justin Hawkins. “God might not be the power she once was, but say what you like about her, she knows damn well that what the world needs now, is rock sweet rock. And who are we, mere mortals of extraordinary ability, to argue with the divine?
“So we knuckled down and thought really hard about the best of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages. Then we popped out a dozen bangers before lunch. And these bangers we present to you here, wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries… ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dreams On Toast!”
Of the single, Justin says, “Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn name, that’s the kind of scenery that I love. I awakened to such a vista in the delightful Scottish highland town of Nairn on the morning that inspiration for ‘The Longest Kiss’ lyric struck. I was bleary eyed and locked in an unending embrace with my (mid)life partner. Weird that I can still sing, but that’s a testament to the resilience of humans, especially lead singers.
“The music itself is a piano-led composition, the chorus of which my brother and I came up with after he’d taken a long time to empty his bladder during some impressive pub endurance. The verses were transposed from a song I’ve been working on for decades as part of a musical about the collapse of the Lowestoft fishing industry, called ‘The Collapse Of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry’.
Ticket pre-sale, including VIP upgrades, opens at 10am on September 25 and will remain live until any remaining tickets go on general sale at 10am on September 27.
The Darkness recently found themselves back on top of the charts, when Taylor Swift was seen singing along to ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ at the US Open. As a result her legions of fans sent the track hurtling up charts, including reaching Number 1 in the US iTunes Rock Chart, 21 years after its release.
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