Iconic 00s rock bands join forces for UK tour after new album

The Darkness person announced their caller medium Dreams On Toast and a 2025 UK tour.

The I Believe successful a Thing Called Love rockers are acceptable to merchandise their eighth workplace medium adjacent March that has been inspired by ‘the life-changing euphony of the ages’.

Across the 17 dates, kicking disconnected astatine Ipswich Regent Theatre connected March 7 2025 and wrapping up their gigs astatine London’s OVO Arena Wembley connected March 29, the musicians volition beryllium accompanied by Northern Irish rockstarsAsh.

The trio, fronted by Tim Wheeler, formed successful the 90s and continued producing euphony passim the noughties, with respective chart-topping records.

It’s not the archetypal clip these 2 forces person collided, arsenic Ash toured with The Darkness connected their Permission to Land circuit successful 2004.

With the quality of the caller tour, The Darkness besides teased the pb azygous from the record, the 1970s-inspired The Longest Kiss which nods towards Queen and Sir Paul McCartney.

The British stone band, which formed successful 2000, consists of Justin Hawkins connected pb vocals, his member Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain, and Rufus Tiger Taylor.

Their debut album, Permission to Land, sold implicit 1.3million copies successful the UK and the set won 3 Brit awards the pursuing year.

They announced their reunion shows successful 2011, with their seventh workplace medium released successful 2021.

With the quality of their latest tour, frontman Justin said: ‘You cognize the happening erstwhile God’s enactment tickles your psyche and tells you to create? Yeah, makes maine giggle too. But you can’t resist.

‘God mightiness not beryllium the powerfulness she erstwhile was, but accidental what you similar astir her, she knows damn good that what the satellite needs now, is stone saccharine rock. And who are we, specified mortals of bonzer ability, to reason with the divine?

‘So we knuckled down and thought truly hard astir the champion of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing euphony of the ages. Then we popped retired a twelve bangers earlier lunch.

‘And these bangers we contiguous to you here, wallowing successful an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries.’

Lead vocalist of Ash, Tim Wheeler, added: ‘In 2004 we toured the UK’s arenas with The Darkness arsenic Permission to Land catapulted them into the large league.

‘Next March, 21 years later, we volition reunite to teardrop crossed Britain earlier an epic crescendo astatine Wembley Arena. We judge successful a happening called Rock!’

Speaking of The Longest Kiss, Justin went on: ‘Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn name, that’s the benignant of scenery that I love.

‘I awakened to specified a vista successful the delightful Scottish highland municipality of Nairn connected the greeting that inspiration for The Longest Kiss lyric struck.

‘I was bleary-eyed and locked successful an unending clasp with my (mid) beingness partner.

‘Weird that I tin inactive sing, but that’s a testament to the resilience of humans, particularly pb singers.

‘The euphony itself is simply a piano-led composition, the chorus of which my member and I came up with aft he’d taken a agelong clip to bare this bladder during immoderate awesome pub endurance.

‘The verses were transported from a opus I’ve been moving connected for decades arsenic portion of a philharmonic astir the illness of the Lowestoft sportfishing industry, called The Collapse of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry.

‘The philharmonic isn’t finished yet. But The Longest Kiss is. The results are astounding. We’re each precise arrogant of this.’

Tickets for The Darkness’ 2025 circuit spell connected merchantability connected Friday, September 27.

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