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Darkness man records solo LP
disnews by DiS News April 28th, 2005
In something of a what-the-heck-went-on-here event, red top rag, The Sun, claims that The Darkness' frontman, Justin Hawkins is to release a solo record in June called 'British Wail'. Obviously, this smells like pants, so despite Justin's quotes of "It's a lot less rock that the band stuff. There's a lot more synths. I suppose you could call it luxurious rock.", we actually, ACTUALLY rang up a record company to ask for ourselves...

And lo, the nice man from Atlantic Records said: "Well, it's not nonsense - but it's not necessarily true. He's had the record from the start, but he definitely won't be releasing it until after the second Darkness album". On the new record from Hawkins and co, it appears that the band are at the closing stages of recording and are in the process of laying down vocals. Given notions of mixing and all that stuff, an Autumn release seems quite feasible...

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