The Darkness announce new album Dreams On Toast, plus UK headline tour

Fresh from some massive attention from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce earlier this month, The Darkness have some news that’ll surely please the megastar couple (along with thousands of their fans, too): they’ve got a brand-new record on the way!

The rock legends will be releasing album number eight, Dreams On Toast, next March via Cooking Vinyl, and they’ll be taking it out on the road in huge UK venues around the same time.

Frontman Justin Hawkins shares: “You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist. God might not be the power she once was, but say what you like about her, she knows damn well that what the world needs now, is rock sweet rock. And who are we, mere mortals of extraordinary ability, to argue with the divine?” (It’s a very valid question, tbf.)

“So we knuckled down and thought really hard about the best of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages,” he continues. “Then we popped out a dozen bangers before lunch. And these bangers we present to you here, wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries… ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dreams On Toast!”

Get your first taste of this “aromatic aural ragu” with ace lead single The Longest Kiss below:

And catch The Darkness at the following dates next year:

March 2025

7 Ipswich Regent’s Theatre
8 Oxford New Theatre
9 Swansea Arena
11 Guildford G Live
12 Hull Connexin Arena
14 Liverpool Guild Of Students
15 Wolverhampton Civic Hall
17 York Barbican
18 Edinburgh Usher Hall
20 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
21 Newcastle O2 City Hall
22 Manchester O2 Apollo
24 Bristol Beacon Theatre
25 Portsmouth Guildhall
27 Leicester De Montford Hall
28 Cambridge Corn Exchange
29 London OVO Arena Wembley

Get your tickets from 10am on Friday, September 20.

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