“It was carnage. We partied on the road, then I’d get home and start the party all over again. I thought, ‘If this carries on, I might die’”: The explosive story of The Darkness’ OTT hard rock masterpiece Permission To Land

The Darkness posing for a photograph in 2004.

Thanks to the success of their debut album, 2003’s Permission To Land, The Darkness were one of the most unlikely success stories of the early 2000s – and one of the most divisive. In 2013, frontman Justin Hawkins, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Frankie Poullain and original drummer Ed Graham looked back on their dizzying rise and the insanity that came with it.