The Darkness have introduced a shock intimate present at London’s Moth Membership. Discover all the small print beneath.
The present comes forward of the band’s massive UK enviornment tour in assist of their 2025 album ‘Desires On Toast’. These reveals kick off in December – you may see a full record of dates right here and discover any remaining tickets right here.
Justin Hawkins and co. will carry out on the iconic London venue on September 17, with the present dubbed “Crock Of Hits”. Saying it on Instagram this morning (September 5), the band wrote: “The primary rule of Moth Membership is, don’t fly into the lightbulb. Simply kidding – nocturnal Lepidoptera rejoice!
“We’re coming to play on the Moth Membership. That factor about burning your self to a crisp is extra of a tenet than a rule, so come have a good time The Darkness on this particular night time and hear upon our works ye mighty and rejoice!” they continued.
““Crock of Hits“ will startle you. Maintain you as you tremble. And gently power you to succumb to its aural splendour. A “better of” curated by us, so that you will be sure it’s the bestest of the bestiest. Suck it up, individuals…”
Presale will start at 10am on Tuesday (September 8), adopted by normal sale on Thursday (September 10). You could find tickets right here.
The gig comes amid Moth Membership’s ongoing battle to outlive. The legendary unbiased venue’s future was in danger over two separate planning purposes for residences on Morning Highway subsequent to the venue, which had been submitted to Hackney Council.
The venue requested native residents to voice their opposition to the developments to the council, and as of December 2025, the council had obtained over 27,000 emails of objection.
Music Venue Belief have mentioned that if MOTH Membership had been to be misplaced, it will pose an “existential menace” to all grassroots venues.
In different information, The Darkness’s tour is about to observe their enormous assist slot at Iron Maiden‘s Knebworth Park gig on July 11.
Talking to NME concerning the upcoming dates late final yr, Justin’s brother and bandmate, Dan Hawkins, mentioned: “Even shut pals of mine who come to each London present sigh if the tour is in spring or early autumn or no matter, as a result of they think about coming to see The Darkness play in December as a part of their Christmas build-up.
“These are my finest pals saying that, and never essentially the largest Darkness followers.”
He continued: “We’re simply a part of individuals’s festive interval, and we’ve received fairly just a few Christmas songs. As you’ve seen right now, we will break into just about anybody… and do a fairly unhealthy job!”
He additionally touched on courting a brand new era of followers, which he mentioned they’d been “constructing and constructing” on since reuniting in 2011.
“We had fairly a tricky problem convincing those who we had been going to be round for some time,” he instructed us. “We’re working on just about a cult fanbase. The transient pop followers that got here and screamed on the early gigs after which left once they realised we had been truly a rock band went fairly early doorways, then we cut up up.
“Once we received again collectively, we needed to actually develop a hardcore fanbase once more. We had it initially to the purpose the place we may promote out The Astoria as an unsigned band, then we sort of simply fucking blew all of it and needed to begin once more. It’s taken us some time to launch high quality stuff, and get higher and higher so far as being a rock band that isn’t simply peddling the identical previous shit each time.
“As you’ve simply heard, our followers aren’t shouting for the hits – they need the album tracks, and never those we had been taking part in 20 years in the past. We’re a distinct beast now.”
