THE DARKNESS Interviewed In Paris (Video)

April 12, 2013

The Darkness France and Louder! Magazine conducted an interview with reunited British rockers THE DARKNESS on March 9 in Paris, France You can now watch the chat below.

As previously reported, THE DARKNESS is planning to enter the studio in early 2014 to begin recording a new album for release later that year.

"We're doing a lot of writing on the road," THE DARKNESS guitarist Dan Hawkins told Soundsblog.it. "What we don't wanna do is have a long break before the next album comes out. Because, obviously, we've had a long break and we're amazed — just amazed — at how many people come to see us and how big our fanbase is, still. And it seems to be growing. There's a lot of young people in the audience that couldn't have been at the gigs we were doing ten years ago, and they're going crazy. So we just wanna keep the output up. Especially these days, I don't think you can just sort of go away for a couple of years and then come back with another album. I think you just need to keep your fanbase occupied. So we're working really hard on the next album already, and it sounds really good so far. And I suppose the aim will be to get the next album out, hopefully, by the end of next year or even very early the year after. We'll probably still be touring until maybe early next year and then we'll finish making the record and try to get it out by the end of the year."

As for what fans should expect to hear on the upcoming album, Hawkins recently told Billboard.com: "I think we want to get even more old school. We want to make it even more of a performance record. We just want to be really brave and try to do something as live as humanly possible, warts and all. We've lost a bit of that in music today. It's time to get a bit of character in there, so we'll be going for something as fucking Route 1 as possible."

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