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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:37 am 
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Not that I care for the band but some of you might. From NME:

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Justin Hawkins quits The Darkness
Drink and drug addicition forces the singer out

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has quit the band to recover from drink and drug addictions.

The singer has decided to call it a day following a stint in The Priory rehab clinic in London.

"I feel bad for the others (in the band)," he told The Sun newspaper. "It will be an upheaval. But it's time for me to move on. It would be damaging to my recovery to stay on. I'm not blaming the band for my problem - I am an addict. There are people who can be in bands and stay clean, but I'm not one of them."

Despite his decision to quit, Hawkins said that the band will carry on without him, with bassist Richie Edwards, who replaced former band member Frankie Poullain, taking over the vocal duties.

According to the singer, his addiction to cocaine over the last few years became so bad that he was spending over a £1,000 a week on the drug.

"I feel like I've lost three years of my life. I'm only just coming to terms with what has happened because I was always off my face," he explained. "I became secretive, volatile and verbally abusive, a really unpleasant person to be around."

Hawkins added that he considered quitting The Darkness last year before the band set off on a world tour, but carried on before entering rehab in August.

The singer said he will now concentrate on recording a solo record and writing music for films.


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now if they could only lose the rest of the band.

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why don't they just hire Ronnie James Dio?

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not to thread crap...but i HATE this band....

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For some reason I'm not quite surprised, nor am I going to shed a tear over this.

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how the hell can you replace that singer and move on?


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Spade Kitty Wrote:
how the hell can you replace that singer and move on?


You can't. He was effectively 9/10ths of the band.

I say again, Permission To Land was too close to Pyromania or Hysteria for me NOT to like.

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Spade Kitty Wrote:
how the hell can you replace that singer and move on?


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not to thread crap...but i HATE this band....

We belong to the same club, T.


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I love phrasing drink like that.

"to recover from drink"


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This just proves it: the Darkness were poseurs, irono-contrarian hipsters set on proving how "lame" 80s power-balladry was by making millions playing in an 80s power-ballad styled band.

I mean, what honest cockrocker quits, after only four or five years, due to drug addiction? Ozzy? Nikki Sixx? Kid Rock?

Seriously, this man has to be stopped. Or, should I say, re-started? Get him a stripper's rear-end and some blow, stat.

Who does he think he is, anyway? Izzy Stradlin (another "rocker" who didn't know when to say 'go')?


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This seems like the unavoidable punchline to the joke.


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This seems like the unavoidable punchline to the joke.


He'll probably come back and team up for a hippie album with Tim from Polyphonic Spree and then talk a lot about thetans.


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nick Wrote:
now if they could only lose the rest of the band.


My first LOL of the day.


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