Permission To Like The Darkness
Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 2004
YOU GUYS WONDER about us Brits sometimes, don't you? We're so proper and reserved, so tea and scones, so cricket, so ... just so. Then, suddenly - remember Hugh Grant and George Michael - we let it all go and do something crass like sending you our favourite new band The Darkness.
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