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<\/p>\nIn The Loop Magazine’s Christopher David had a chat with The Darkness about the bands latest album, Last Of Our Kind. Below, you’ll find out about the recording process, the new drummer with a tie to Queen and longevity as a still evolving band.<\/p>\n
The Darkness are currently out on tour for this album and dubbed it, Back To The USSA Tour 2016.<\/p>\n
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Chris (In The Loop Magazine)<\/strong>: Tell our readers a bit about recording 2015\u2019s Last of Our Kind<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0How has the response been so far since its release?<\/p>\n Frankie Poullain (The Darkeness)<\/strong>: We’ve had a warm and affectionate response to this album, plenty of hearty back slaps at first and that seems to have given way to one almighty slobbery cuddle.<\/p>\n ITL<\/strong>: How did having Dan produce the record (and acting as co-producer on 2012\u2019s\u00a0Hot Cakes<\/em>) influence the process, or how did it differ, as a result, from your previous recording experiences – say, with Roy Thomas Baker?<\/p>\n FP:<\/strong> It’s certainly been more harmonious and open. Open hearts are important. An open creative environment if you like. A can opener at hand is crucial too for a quick beans on toast between takes.<\/p>\n ITL<\/strong>: Rufus Taylor, son of legendary Queen drummer Roger Taylor, is now your drummer.\u00a0 How did that come about?<\/p>\n FP<\/strong>: Providence. Serendipity. Foresight. Circumspection. Sagacity. Circumcision… All words that I don’t really understand and yet perhaps, just maybe, they have something to do with this beautiful boy being the new drummer for The Darkness.<\/p>\n ITL<\/strong>: Last of Our Kind<\/em> is a very conceptual record.\u00a0 Concept albums tend to be a product of a band really visualizing something specific, so was making a concept album something that you\u2019d planned to do previously, or was it something that evolved organically as the songs came along?<\/p>\n FP<\/strong>: We’re becoming more conceptual as we get older, I think…or it may be because people use concepts to escape from the current situation they are in. And to fulfill a need to express themselves. Which is also escape. Perhaps young folk have less need of concepts, perhaps concepts are a shield against death. Or maybe they’re just a laugh. Which is also a shield against death.\u00a0It’s all pretty mystifying really so maybe I’ll quit while I’m ahead. Or behind, if you prefer.<\/p>\n ITL: <\/strong>You arrived on the rock scene at a very strange time in rock music – 2005 was a point at which a lot of different sub-genres and new bands were coming along, and you squarely focused on a more classic, glam-rock approach to things – to a point where there were critics who thought you were a joke.\u00a0 How have you seen or how do you feel like peoples’ perception of The Darkness has changed?<\/p>\n FP<\/strong>: A lot of people have the blind spot of a fixed mindset, their original perception of something, no matter how randomly that perception came about, is cemented in there. I have a family member like that, he’s the loveliest fellow imaginable – generous, energetic, intelligent, positive, fun loving and yet he cannot or will not change his opinion of something once it is lodged in there. The British media is a bit like that. Except it’s not intelligent.<\/p>\n And actually, it looks like we’ve ridden out a 10 year backlash here in the UK and things are swinging around, we have the most festival bookings this summer since 2004. The British press are great again, yay!<\/p>\n ITL:<\/strong> That\u2019s great to hear! So, what can American fans expect from the \u201cBack to the USSA\u201d tour?<\/p>\n FP:<\/strong> Four wired men playing hard, true, fast, sexual rock ‘n’ roll music with unerring skill, a nod to the ridiculous and a wink to spontaneous anarchic comedy of an exceedingly British variety.<\/p>\n For more information on The Darkness, click here<\/a><\/p>\n
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