The Darkness' Justin Hawkins quits

good news. if he's after an outpouring of sympathy he aint getting none from me.

i hope he rejoins and stops writing solo material that sounds very, very, very gay

approximately £156,000 up his nose. Is there really that much money in jingles and catsuit-wearing?

I'm in the wrong job.

maybe he gives great blowjobs?

...not that that was any of his business, and he was telling the truth about his age.

anyway, surely 1k a week on white lines works out as about 2 or 3g a day.

they do an INXS style "Rock Idol" search for a new frontman.

By that point Justin will be so desperately down and out he will queue up for hours to audition to be lead singer in his own band.

the 1k a day coke habit overtook things to the extent that he couldn't afford to buy any more of his fucking hideous clothing.

Tough decision, that one.

Or - maybe he's giving it all up for hair implants, elton john-stylee. I'd pay to see that.

...the same Justin Hawkins who vehemently denied he was a cokehead when I posed the question printed in Q's Cash For Questions section a couple of years back.

A real shame. It was obvious from the interviews (my question said as such), but you know... like I say, I did like them, but the interviews did them no favours.

Well - what do they do with the rest of the yeast?

I just posted the above post and my earlier post completely disappeared.

I didn't post it here. I posted it on the message boards.

http://drownedinsound.com/articles/1202601

I am an idiot. Time for bed.

not only would i prefer mono to the darkness, i'd probably prefer fucking syphilis

Christ. Check out all the judgejuryexecitioners. Respect to Justin Hawkins. He can walk out in front of 10000 people a night and walk the walk of a genuine rock star. No shitty shoegazing, going on stage dressed like Withnail, or rubbish luddite musicianship. I wonder how other 'twat' frontmen like Mick Jagger, Bruce Dickinson or Freddie Mercury would fare on these pages? Maybe it would be good for all arena bands to pay attention to the ugly jealousies of indie people whos horizons end with the Barfly.

thousands of people throughout the country who can play guitar as well (technically) as justin hawkins. go to any guitar shop at any arbitrary time and they'll be at least three of the mfs

Music shops will always be full of bedroom guitarists playing their pet four bars of shred. It's a very different thing from doin it in a band day after a day. That's like saying that every single shmoe in a guitar shop is a better musician than Keith Richards or..say Tom Verlaine

Or I will fuck you up too!=]

He would just get back with the band.

Were not a joke. They worked sooo hard to get where they are today. I mean, if you were pushing your baby in a pram down the street and somebody called it a joke....you would be pretty upset. The Darkness was the "baby" of Justin, Dan, Richie, and Ed's lives.

I mean...what kind of shit are you listening to, that makes you think this was no big loss to the music world? Fuck you all.=[

They are probably going to have Richie Edwards...the bassist (for all you stupid twats out here who don't know)
take Justin's place.