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The last time we heard from Justin Hawkins, things weren't exactly rosy. While debut Darkness album Permission To Land was probably the most thrillingly ridiculous rock 'n' roll pisstake since Spinal Tap, second record One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back proved one way too many, and predictably saw them limp off the scene in a haze of arguments and addictions. Making his return clean and sober, new project Hot Leg pull a lot of the old tricks on debut album Red Light Fever, but lucky for us, the fun is back.

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Hot Leg will be visiting Ireland's new music store XMusic on Saturday 28th February 09 from 12pm-2pm. Justin and the lads will be demo-ing gear, signing autographs and maybe more.... Free admission - see http://www.xmusic.ie/ for more details.

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Slipknot and Coheed And Cambria level New York, Chiodos destroy Manchester and The Gaslight Anthem rock Brighton, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich muses on the band's past, present and future, we try and find out what the fuck is up with screamo crunk - possibly the worst genre of music ever created, Introducing My Passion and Holy State, HIM frontman Ville Valo on how he's coping with sobriety and Inside The Mind Of Hot leg's Justin Hawkins.

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Justin Hawkins (previously of The Darkness and now Hot Leg frontman) knows all about this whole prcoess. His old outfit were heavily praised for debut Permission to Land but by the time its follow-up One Way Ticket to Hell … and Back was released two years on, the knives were out. ‘You can tell that you are becoming a press phenomenon when people ask you the same question over and over again’, Hawkins chortles, ‘and we started off being excited about the hype. Now I realise that you can’t please everyone all the time.’

Read more for the full article on bands suffering from short lived hype.

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Stylish News: Check out the last night’s hair dos….we’d love to stop and chat, but we’re off to get a fringe chopped in.



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Former Darkness man Justin Hawkins excitedly posed for photographs with two female fans on the edge of the backstage dancefloor.

Read the full article at http://www.nme.com/news/daily-gossip/42893

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