The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has said the band still ‘all hate each other’ despite the original line-up’s reunion in 2011.
“Yeah, we all hate each other,” he told Spin. “That’s why we make great music. You can’t make fire without friction. “Well, maybe you can, but it’s like a chemical fire which would tear your skin off.”
And in looking back on The Darkness’ split in 2006 and the time since, Hawkins pointed to a change in lifestyle as one of the reasons for their reconciliation. “Time is a great healer,” he said. “As is sobriety. It’s the old, ‘What were we actually angry about in the first place?’ When you’re smalltown guys that become a big-time band, you lose sight of a lot of stuff.”
“Then when we first sat down together again it was like, ‘Yeah, this is nice’. So maybe that’s true. But the mending process has been going on for years and years.”