The Darkness have revealed they’d be willing to form an epic rock supergroup with fellow titan bands Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro.
The British glam rockers started plotting the star-studded collaboration during an exclusive chat with Daily Star’s Sam Huntley at the Hard Rock Café in London.
The Darkness have just announced their 2023 co-headline tour with US rock band Black Stone Cherry, which will see them blow away crowds across the country.
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The arena tour will kick off early next year with dates in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Cardiff before finishing with a night at London’s OVO Arena at Wembley on February 4.
During their sit-down chat with Daily Star, the band spilled their honest opinions on the Britain’s biggest rock and pop stars today – including Harry Styles and Liam Gallagher.
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Singer Justin Hawkins said Harry Styles was a “good role model for everybody” when asked what he thought about the former One Direction star, who just headlined Wembley Stadium with his Harry’s House tour.
He said: “He’s a really good role model for everybody, basically. He’s just a nice bloke, isn’t he? And he’s doing stuff that has an eerie familiarity about it, but ultimately it’s pop music and he’s the most popular one. So he’s just doing his job really, really well, I think.”
Hawkins reckoned Harry has been “doing retro stuff in a really clever way” as he unearthed an eerie musical similarity between Harry’s hit track, As It Was, and A-ha’s classic 1984 hit.
Justin, who posts regular song breakdowns on his TikTok account, said Harry was essentially borrowing elements from various 80s hits and making them his own.
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He said “A lot of people are saying that it [As It Was] sounds like Take On Me by A-ha and then the chord sequence for Take On Me is something like Bm, E major, A, D, and the Harry Styles one is D, Bm, E major, A. So it’s the same chord sequence but starts at a different point.
“It’s got a lot of the same sort of production trickery and the sort of cadence to the sympathisers motif, but it is almost a re-interpretation of the sort of pallet of A-Ha. So he’s doing retro stuff in a really clever way. He’s taking the really important bits of that song, distilling it with a clever producer and when people hear A-Ha now they’re reminded of Harry Styles.
“I don’t think it will be like that in forty years. I think in forty years, people will go ‘that sounds like A-Ha’, they’re not going to say that sounds like Harry Styles, but for the moment that’s how pop music works. You do something that gets the attention.”
“As opposed to the Kate Bush phenomenon where a TV program has put a really great song [out there], Harry Styles has very cleverly taken the elements of something of the same era as that Kate Bush song and made it his.”
He added: “So he’s really smart at taking elements from our childhoods and borrowing them, and they won’t be his forever. It doesn’t matter, because he’s a pop star and he’s on a trajectory where it’s like, stay at the top for as long as you can.”
The band later spoke about bands they’d love to join forces with, where they picked Black Stone Cherry before teasing a smash-collab with Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro.
Justin even joked the three bands could recreate the iconic three-way 1993 hit All For Love, which saw Rod Stewart, Sting and Bryan Adams bundle into the studio.
He said: “I’d be really surprised if we don’t end up doing something collaborative with the Black Stone Cherry music crew. Failing that… who is the most successful one at the moment?”
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When Sam suggested Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters and Scottish demigods Biffy, Justin replied: “We’ll do Foo Fighters, Biffy and us. Yeah. We could do Rod Stewart, Sting and Bryan Adams [All For Love].”
Later on, the boys started plotting a rowdy night out with Liam Gallagher – which would apparently involve a trip to Wetherspoons and maybe even a bust-up.
Asked about the ex-Oasis front man, Justin said: “That would be f***ing hilarious, yeah. Why not.”
Drummer Rufus added: “It would have to be a pub, wouldn’t it?” before Justin suggested: “Wetherspoons? 2 for 1. 2 for 1 meal.”
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Rufus quipped: “A big scrap at the end.”
Chatting about their upcoming tour, Justin seemed buzzing to get into the arenas – insisting the band should been playing arenas for the last 20 years.
“It’s going to be a brilliant opportunity for us to get back into arenas, and nothing is exciting as the possibility, almost endless in terms of what we can do production wise. We’ve already started having conversations. That’s the sort of thing that excites a band like us, because I think arenas is what The Darkness should have been for the last 20 years!”
Tickets for The Darkness’ 2023 tour with Black Stone Cherry are on sale now and available here.
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