The Darkness have announced new album ‘Dreams On Toast’, due out in March 2025 via Cooking Vinyl.

The legends of rock have also revealed lead single ‘The Longest Kiss’.

Frontman Justin Hawkins commented on the track saying, “Misty Orchards! That’s not my porn name, that’s the kind of scenery that I love. I awakened to such a vista in the delightful Scottish highland town of Nairn on the morning that inspiration for ‘The Longest Kiss’ lyric struck. I was bleary eyed and locked in an unending embrace with my (mid)life partner. Weird that I can still sing, but that’s a testament to the resilience of humans, especially lead singers.

The music itself is a piano-led composition, the chorus of which my brother and I came up with after he’d taken a long time to empty his bladder during some impressive pub endurance. The verses were transposed from a song I’ve been working on for decades as part of a musical about the collapse of the Lowestoft fishing industry, called ‘The Collapse Of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry’.

The musical isn’t finished yet. But ‘The Longest Kiss’ is. The results are astounding. We’re all very proud of this. Please, to enjoy!”

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Not only will ‘Dreams On Toast’ feature arguably the band’s best collection of songs yet, but The Darkness will also be hitting the road next year with their largest headline tour of the UK in years along with special guests ASH – full details below:

Ipswich Regent Theatre, 07 March
Oxford New Theatre, 08
Swansea Arena, 09
Guildford G Live, 11
Hull Connexin Live, 12
Liverpool Guild Of Students, 14
Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 15
York Barbican, 17
Edinburgh Usher Hall, 18
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 20
Newcastle O2 City Hall, 21
Manchester O2 Apollo, 22
Bristol Beacon, 24
Portsmouth Guildhall, 25
Leicester De Montfort Hall, 27
Cambridge Corn Exchange, 28
London OVO Arena Wembley, 29

Tickets on sale Friday (27 September) at 10am from Gigantic Ticketmaster AXS See Tickets

PRE-ORDER THE NEW ALBUM HERE:

New album & tour announcement!! ‘Dreams on Toast’ will be released on Friday 28th March.

Tickets for the tour go on presale at 10am on Wednesday 25th September. To gain access to the ticket presale, pre-order #DreamsonToast now here:https://t.co/A9IILWRQOv pic.twitter.com/cn9Nn1gDX2

— The Darkness (@thedarkness) September 18, 2024

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