The Darkness recording in Nashville may seem crazy, but it is happening.
The reformed U.K. hard rockers are busy working on their third album and frontman Justin Hawkins tells Rolling Stone that they have their swagger back. “For every person that loved us another person hated us. That used to annoy us, but now it turns us on again,” Hawkins says of the 
band’s love/hate reputation. The Darkness return to North America early in 2012, for a brief tour starting February 1 in Toronto.
Before that, they head to Nashville to record some extra tracks and to add polish on the upcoming, unnamed album. “I doubt there’ll be pedal steel, but I’m definitely not averse to it because I love that sound,” Hawkins says. “But I think it’s a great place to go anyway just to spend some time there.”
Of new songs, Hawkins adds. “There’s one called ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Love,’ and I suppose it’s the nearest equivalent the new set of songs has to ‘Friday Night’ or something like that. It’s an acoustic-y, swing-y one with a massive guitar solo in the middle. Then there’s another song called ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,’ which has been in the set for a while. There are probably seven or eight tracks we’ve actually done live, all of which will make it onto the record probably.”
The Darkness’s full North American tour dates are:
Feb. 1: Toronto (Phoenix)
Feb. 3: Boston, MA (Paradise)
Feb. 4: New York, NY (Irving Plaza)
Feb. 7: Philadelphia, PA (Trocadero)
Feb. 8: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Feb. 10: Detroit, MI (St Andrew's Hall)
Feb. 11: Chicago, IL (Metro)
Feb. 12: Minneapolis,MN (First Avenue)
Feb. 15: Denver, CO (Summit)
Feb. 17: Las Vegas, NV (House of Blues)
Feb. 18: Phoenix, AZ (Celebrity Theatre)
Feb. 19: Los Angeles, CA (House of Blues)
Feb. 21: San Francisco, CA (Fillmore)
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