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... on Meat Loaf's new record! From Meat's twitter:

| 05 Oct 2009 |

Justin Hawkins, The Darkness

That overtly masculine bastion of heavy metal has a long history of hair-raising shrieks from its lead singers. It just so happens that the band who took the piss out of that tradition ended up contributing some of its most enjoyable anthems. Hawkins jolts upward like so much pyrotechnics on faux classics like "Get Your Hands Off of My Woman" and "I Believe in a Thing Called Love."

columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2009/09/24/ca_m_passion.html

| 29 Sep 2009 |

Telstar the movie tells the life story of producer Joe Meek, and has had positive reviews throughout the year is released today on DVD.

The Telegraph reviews Telstar, stating "Con O’Neill powerfully captures Meek’s volatility and vulnerability, and there’s terrific support from Kevin Spacey as Meek’s business partner and Justin Hawkins as a vampiric Screaming Lord Sutch. "

Read the full review at www.telegraph.co.uk.

| 28 Sep 2009 |

89. I Believe In A Thing Called Love (2003)

The Darkness

Stadium rock returned, complete with spandex trousers and Justin Hawkins’s ludicrous falsetto.

read the list at www.telegraph.co.uk

| 19 Sep 2009 |

| 17 Sep 2009 |

Can you reveal the names of any other famous musicians whose guitars you've repaired recently?

Among the Nashville players there’s Brooks and Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Tracy Lawrence, Keith Urban, Sugarland, James Otto, Brad Paisley, Big and Rich, Darius Rucker, and on and on. As for rock players, we’ve worked on guitars for Rick Derringer, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Kerri Kelli from Alice Cooper, Ace Frehley, Dave Meniketti, Dave Grohl, Jack White, Ed King, Gary Rossington, Ricky Medlocke, Peter Frampton, Dan and Justin Hawkins from The Darkness, etc. Of course the greatest honor of all was working with Les Paul on various projects!

Read the full article on Gibson Lifestyle http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Repair-Kings-Of-Leon-914/

| 15 Sep 2009 |

"Justin Hawkins: "Won an epic battle with a 40lb conga eel. I am neptune, master of the ocean." "

Read more of The Guardian's Twitter pickings for today at http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/sep/11/

| 11 Sep 2009 |

In early 2008, Justin Hawkins revealed his new band Hot Leg to the world. Made up of, according to the band themselves, Justin "Dave" Hawkins (lead guitar and lead vocals), Pete Rinaldi (lead guitar and lead backing vocals), Samuel SJ Stokes (lead bass and lead backing vocals) and Darby Todd (lead drums and lead drums), the band debuted with a free download track, "Heroes".

Read the full article at 411mania.com

Read more | 08 Sep 2009 |