BAND AT EASE HEADLINING DOWNLOAD

ROCKING Download after a two-year pandemic is no problem for The Darkness.

Lowestoft’s finest play at the Donington festival today, and frontman Justin Hawkins joked: “It’s like riding a log or falling off a bike.”

His guitarist brother Dan added: “I’m very tall and lanky. I have a really bad hunch. I look weird until I put a guitar on, which is when I make sense.”

Charitable Justin agreed: “You either have to give Dan a guitar or an old club with nails sticking out of the end of it.”

But Dan retorted:

“Yeah, I’m Igor, a medieval giant.

“Getting back on tour is me finally being allowed out of my cage.”

The Darkness are back topping festivals having gone through a serious journey from charttoppers to forgotten heroes.

It wasn’t that long ago they were so popular that the lads were the first band to play Knebworth after rockers Oasis.

Bleary-eyed Justin recalled: “God yeah,

Knobworth. I used to call it Knobworth. I’d swap the ‘e’ for an ‘o’ because I was a genius.”

Dan has less fond memories: “It seems a lifetime ago now. Kelly Osbourne was on the bill with us.

“We decided to stay so late that the bus taking the band back to the hotel had gone, so we decided to sleep in the dressing room.”

Dan added: “But it was in Kelly Osbourne’s dressing room as we had none of our rider left.”

The band won rave reviews for last year’s album Motorheart and are already having a laugh thinking about the follow-up.

Justin spilled: “I do have an idea for a song called You’re So Hot Even My Zipper Has Fallen For You.”