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| 14 Jul 2009 |

Some photos from Hot Leg's Rock Weekend Festival show can be seen at www.rockfoto.net/artists/Hot%20Leg/gig/20090711/11460/photos/80945.
The Crave's Carlos Garcia played guitar in Pete's place for this show, as he is in LA, incase you wondered why Pete looked a bit different...!

some more photos are also available at http://qmedia.se/temp/album/rockweekend09/hot_leg/

| 12 Jul 2009 |

| 09 Jul 2009 |

The parody was as acute as ever but the subject matter has yellowed. A quarter century ago, when memories of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were still warm, This Is Spinal Tap’s portrait of a fading British heavy metal band was perfectly timed. Now it’s a museum piece, superseded by post-Tap parody acts such as The Darkness, whose singer Justin Hawkins made a worshipful guest appearance.

Read the full article at www.ft.com

Read more | 03 Jul 2009 |

No matter how witty they may be, few satires or novelty songs repay repeated listening. So how come a packed Wembley is rocking to the soundtrack of a mockumentary that appeared a quarter of a century ago?

Read more | 02 Jul 2009 |

At Spinal Tap's Wembley (London UK) show last night, Justin joined them on stage for a rendition of Big Bottom playing the amazing looking 'Shuttle Bass'!

You can see some pictures at www.wireimage.com
And read an early review at www.chortle.co.uk

Also clips are starting to appear on Youtube:

| 01 Jul 2009 |

Justin Hawkins, ex-frontman of the spandex clad four-piece The Darkness, is not renowned for his low key entrances.

On past tours, The Darkness faithful have not only been witness to an extreme range of costume changes and a barrage of pyrotechnics but on his last tour they also got to see the band's lead singer flying over their heads astride a life-sized tiger.

But according to Justin, now fronting up his new band Hot Leg, this will be nothing compared to the entrance he's got planned for this year's Moonfest 2009.

Read more | 30 Jun 2009 |

When The Darkness first came out, the most common discussion topic about them was always about whether or not they were being ironic. The snobbier critics and indie kids tended to want to believe that they were doing it as near-parody, and the classic rock true believers wanted to believe that they were totally sincere. Of course, both sides of the argument were totally ridiculous. They couldn’t possibly be doing it 100% straight faced, otherwise it’d look more like Jet or Buckcherry, whose intentions were too base and unremarkable to ever be questioned by anyone. And they couldn’t be doing as straight parody, either, otherwise there’s no way they’d be doing such a great job of it. Rather, the appeal of The Darkness was that they viewed classic rock the same way that most people in the 21st century with half a brain and half a heart did–a genre of occasional ridiculous, poorly-dated cliches, which nonetheless continued to tap more effectively into the pleasure centers of listeners than just about any other style of music.

Read more | 30 Jun 2009 |