Our favourite spandex-clad rockers The Darkness have just announced they’re heading back out on the road for their biggest headline run in twenty years. Set for December 2026, the tour is being billed as a celebration of the band’s best bits, spanning over two decades of chart-topping anthems and fan favourites.
The Lowestoft legends are promising a proper rip-roaring stomp through their catalogue, covering everything from the game-changing debut Permission To Land right up to their most recent hit, 2025’s Dreams On Toast, which smashed its way to number two in the charts. Expect the usual high-octane energy and probably more than a few costume changes along the way.
Frontman Justin Hawkins is clearly up for it, saying: “Imagine yourself, luxuriating in the warm sonic and visual embrace of the best ever Darkness songs, played by the best ever Darkness band, in the best ever rock music venues of mainland Great Britain! You will float with us on the soft whoopee cushion of undulating rock tones, swim with us in the warm seas of loquacious balladry, jump with us in the heady miasma of pop rock, and also do the head bang with us in the electrical thundery storm of HEVY METUL… Roll up, roll up – the Darkness Carnival is coming to town!”
As if that wasn’t enough to get you down to the front, they’re bringing some cracking support along for the ride. American country rockers Brothers Osborne and UK pop-punk stalwarts A will be opening the show on all dates.
The tour kicks off in Glasgow on 8th December and wraps up with a massive debut headline show at London’s O2 Arena. Tickets are on sale now, so don’t hang about if you want to catch this one.
- 8th Dec – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
- 9th Dec – Leeds, FD Arena
- 11th Dec – Manchester, AO Arena
- 12th Dec – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
- 13th Dec – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
- 15th Dec – Brighton, Brighton Centre
- 16th Dec – London, The O2
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