Kerrang!'s end of year survey has thrown up some bad results for The Darkness in the wake of the release of their second album. The reader poll named the glam rock outfit Worst Band and Worst Album, whilst frontman Justin Hawkins achieved the title of 'Worst Dressed Star'. A nice moment to be Frankie Poullain, perhaps.
It seems things are generally not going so well for The Darkness. The new album was met with a relatively lukewarm response, and sales are now flagging; it entered the charts at 11, but had dropped to 34 by last weekend. In America, it failed to break the top fifty.
I'm tempted to say that a downfall is inevitable, if Hawkins will persist in being so willfully hubristic.