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| 03 Apr 2009 |

Jon Lord, Glenn Hughes, Hot Leg, The Pretty Things and Steve Balsamo will play at the Childline Rocks concert.

The gig's headliners are yet to be confirmed but it has been announced that Sons Of Albion, Jessie Hunter, Andy Newmark, Tyson Schenker and Molly Marriott will also perform at the charity fundraiser.

Read more | 03 Apr 2009 |

3. Hot Leg (SPIN party at Stubbs, 3.20.2009)

On a similar yet entirely different note, Justin Hawkins mounted a roadie's shoulders for Hot Leg's final song, "Cocktails," and rode him through the audience while playing a guitar solo. It's a stunt Hawkins also did in his old band, The Darkness (whose first album I still listen to regularly), but it actually seems more appropriate here with the even more over-the-top Hot Leg. Where the Darkness were more Thin Lizzy, Hot Leg is the Sunset Strip circa 1986, complete with hairspray, makeup, and a studded leather jumpsuit. And posing. Every second of their performance was a photo op. That said, the band are tight and can really play all that stuff live. The songs, unfortunately, are a little to jokey this time around, even for Hawkins who wrote a love song to a genital wart. But as live spectacle, Hot Leg are something else.

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| 02 Apr 2009 |

Hot Leg are well and truly built around Justin's musical style and vocal approach - pure flambouyant 80's stadium rock with large vocals and supreme musicianship all round. The other members nearly giving Mr. Hawkin's a run for his money in the fashion dept - although no-one can beat those awesome tiger-skin coloured tight jeans - or the nice array of tattoos come to think of it.

Read more | 31 Mar 2009 |

Hot Leg are listed to play Kobetasonik Festival in Bilbao, Spain on June 19th 09 according to www.kobetasonik.com. Further information about upcomming Hot Leg shows are yet to be released.

| 30 Mar 2009 |

After an excruciating forty-minute wait, Hot Leg appeared onstage, amid a furious fog machine and what was now a packed house. Everyone in attendance seemed to know the band’s songs, even though the album has not been released yet in the States. Hawkins, clad in a full-body black leather(ish) jumpsuit that was unzipped down the middle (of course) was in fine form.

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Read more | 26 Mar 2009 |

A much healthier and ambitious Justin Hawkins, or as he refers to himself, Justin “Dave” Hawkins (“I like the inclusion of an abbreviated middle name”), took some time out before a recent gig in Dublin to explain the rise and fall of The Darkness as well as his new musical direction with Hot Leg.

What did the catsuit-sporting frontman enjoy most about international success? “I enjoyed the fact that it was easy to get drugs. I made it my mission, wherever we went, to try and get drugs as soon as we got off the plane,” said Hawkins. “Seriously, I enjoyed the big roar coming back from the crowd. It made playing a real thrill. Just seeing the varying degrees of mania around the world. Everywhere we went there was something weird happening. It was great.”

Read more | 26 Mar 2009 |

Some music fans refer to February 3, 1959 (date of the Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens/Big Bopper plane crash) as the Day the Music Died. I, however, somewhat blasphemously use that phrase when I tearily recall October 10, 2006: the day The Sun reported that Justin Hawkins was leaving the Darkness. That was a dark day indeed.

But huzzah! Rock lives again in Justin's new band, the stupidly-ingeniously monikered Hot Leg, who last night journeyed to their true spiritual home--Hollywood's heavy metal headquarters, the Sunset Strip--to rock the world-infamous Viper Room.

Read more | 25 Mar 2009 |