THE DARKNESS

“People don't do guitar solos anymore. That’s the problem!”

- Luke Lewis and Amit Sharma

By the time The Darkness got their first TG cover in May 2004, they were fast-becoming one of the biggest rock bands in the world. But just over a year before that, they were still playing in pubs as an unsigned act. So how the hell did they manage to do it?

“The Darkness will save the world from screamo and nu-metal sh*te,” lead singer and lead guitarist Justin Hawkins told us. “But that’s not what we really intend to do. It’s merely a by-product of our impending world domination.”