The Darkness spent an estimated £100,000 on pyrotechnics and fireworks at the Reading Festival this weekend, but according to Radio One the band's new songs didn't go down well and even Justin Hawkins admitted they weren't very good:
"They were appalling really, I mean we haven't had a chance to rehearse them. I'm the first to admit they were turgid rubbish, but the rest of the show went well. I sang really well last night and we all came off thinking 'Oh that was a bit... was a bit so-so', but we watched the video back and our show, the actual production of it, the light show and the pyros and the fireworks were second to none I think. We gave a good account of ourselves apart from the new material which was shit."
But Justin is promising that their forthcoming arena tour will rock: "The Reading set was a scaled down version of the arena tour. The arena tour will have a longer set, more spectacular scenery, shall we say, and a bag full of surprises just for you. This includes inflatables, very large ones we can't use here because of the weather."