Justin Hawkins (The Darkness/Hotleg). Opinions?

Anyone have any opinions on this fellow?

I got my copy of Hotleg's debut CD yesterday and have been listening to it a fair bit. Now onto The Darkness and whilst some may find his voice annoying and him to be a bit of a pretentious tw@, the boy can write a song.

Anyone else?

I saw them open for Whitesnake in 2004, I laughed me socks off infact I'm still laughing

- I thought they were a "pants" AC/DC / Bee Gee's tribute band!..I even turned to my wife & said "we will never of hear of these again!"...boy, was I wrong Embarassed

(obviously this was before their chart success Wink

)...

I don't really have a problem with them or Justin. My sister has their first album & still plays it once in awhile, one thing I did notice the production of that album was excellent thums up

Matty

Matty35 wrote:: I saw them open for Whitesnake in 2004, I laughed me socks off infact I'm still laughing - I thought they were a "pants" AC/DC / Bee Gee's tribute band!..I even turned to my wife & said "we will never of hear of these again!"...boy, was I wrong (obviously this was before their chart success )...

I don't really have a problem with them or Justin. My sister has their first album & still plays it once in awhile, one thing I did notice the production of that album was excellent

Matty

I saw them open for Def Leppard in Feb 03 with a mate and his wife. Again we laughed a lot, thinkign they were a sub par AC/DC. However we did enjoy them and saw them at the Hop & Grape in Mcr in March 03 playing to no more than 200 people.

12 months later they're playing the MEN arena. Couldn't believe that!

Pete wrote:

Matty35 wrote:: I saw them open for Whitesnake in 2004, I laughed me socks off infact I'm still laughing - I thought they were a "pants" AC/DC / Bee Gee's tribute band!..I even turned to my wife & said "we will never of hear of these again!"...boy, was I wrong (obviously this was before their chart success )...

I don't really have a problem with them or Justin. My sister has their first album & still plays it once in awhile, one thing I did notice the production of that album was excellent

Matty

I saw them open for Def Leppard in Feb 03 with a mate and his wife. Again we laughed a lot, thinkign they were a sub par AC/DC. However we did enjoy them and saw them at the Hop & Grape in Mcr in March 03 playing to no more than 200 people.

12 months later they're playing the MEN arena. Couldn't believe that!

They made some money out of the industry so fair play to them thums up

The music was cool but I never liked his vocals that much, which is strange because I like the Bee Gee's Rolling Eyes

- I suppose the mix of Angus Young & Barry Gibb doesn't work for me Laughing

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The only problem Upscope has with The Darknesss is that he can't figure out which member is the gayest??

'Scope

The Darkness!!! Laughing

Everything that is wrong with music!!
Some of the music, in truth, was ok-ish but as soon as dork Hawkins opens his mouth... kill

Haven't heard Hot Leg and have no desire to either. May their lifespan be shortlived so we can rid ourseleves of that Hawkins prat forever... cheer

RFFB wrote:: The Darkness!!! Everything that is wrong with music!!
Some of the music, in truth, was ok-ish but as soon as dork Hawkins opens his mouth...

Haven't heard Hot Leg and have no desire to either. May their lifespan be shortlived so we can rid ourseleves of that Hawkins prat forever...

Not a fan then RFFB!

Whatever gave you that idea!!

RFFB wrote:: Whatever gave you that idea!!

Dunno.

'Scope wrote:: The only problem Upscope has with The Darknesss is that he can't figure out which member is the gayest??

'Scope

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First album was enjoyable,second one was pants.Saw them at the Apollo and the atmosphere was excellent,solid outfit but i always thought their career would be shortlived.As Pete said they almost sold out the MEN a year later,just couldnt see them having the presence to fill such a big venue.I think a lot of people jumped onboard when the big single hit and the band believed they were the bees knees.Lets face it they had their 15 minutes of fame but its hard to follow up a highly successful debut album.Will get round to purchasing the Hot Leg album,Pete is it a better effort than the Stone Gods disc??

Room Service wrote:: First album was enjoyable,second one was pants.Saw them at the Apollo and the atmosphere was excellent,solid outfit but i always thought their career would be shortlived.As Pete said they almost sold out the MEN a year later,just couldnt see them having the presence to fill such a big venue.I think a lot of people jumped onboard when the big single hit and the band believed they were the bees knees.Lets face it they had their 15 minutes of fame but its hard to follow up a highly successful debut album.Will get round to purchasing the Hot Leg album,Pete is it a better effort than the Stone Gods disc??

Is it better than Stone Gods? My opinion. is yes. I'll burn you a copy if you PM me your details...save your pennies.

Not a big fan of them, but some stuff is ok.

I really like Tokyo Dragons. Have you guys seen them at all? I think they broke up a couple months ago.

Another band that is ok is Next Generation Superstars.

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laxcdn wrote:: Have you guys seen them at all? I think they broke up a couple months ago.

AGAIN??

They break UP more often then Pam & Tommy.

'Scope

'Scope wrote:

laxcdn wrote:: Have you guys seen them at all? I think they broke up a couple months ago.

AGAIN??

They break UP more often then Pam & Tommy.

'Scope

Too ture

Damn it!! I missed seeing these lot at the Hop & Grape.

Bugger.

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