NEWS: The Darkness' Justin Hawkins Up In Wax

MUSIC: The Darkness' Justin Hawkins Up In Wax

Visitors to the famous Madame Tussauds wax museum in London will get to meet a new dummy this year, Justin Hawkins, lead singer of the Darkness.

Hawkins' likeness will be responsible for rating tourists' air guitar skills in a new exhibit entitled "Air Guitar Star":

You can enjoy this new venue for laughing at pudgy tourists making fools of themselves starting March 17th.

I'm not getting down on The Darkness or anything... but aren't they kinda a one hit wonder? Shouldn't a band have been popular more than a year before they get immortalized next to past heads of state?

Well, considering they've only put out one album, and that they had a string of hits in the UK, I wouldn't relegate them to one hit wonderdom yet.

But this isn't "next to heads of state". It's a silly exhibit where people play air guitar.

Still, it's taking a lot on faith, assuming anyone's going to care about or even remember them in 5 years. Especially in today's music scene, one big album means nothing, they'll move on to the next act without looking back. Just doesn't seem like a safe investment, since those things aren't exactly easy to make.

i love the dude, but wonder if all the annoying american, italian and spanish tourists currently occupying my fair city doing the shitty site seeing stuff brits never ever do would know who the fuck he was??

That's what I was about to say... yeah, it's just a wax museum and all, but they seem to put just about anyone in there nowadays...

See, if they did have the heads of state in there, now
that would be cool....

Hey now! I would fall under the category of american, though hopefully not "annoying amierican". But I know who The Darkness are. In fact I've seen them in concert twice here in the states and loved every minute of the shows they put on.
I mean who in their right mind would want to miss the opportunity to see Justin Hawkins in spandex?!


(taken at Slim's in San Francisco)

opps. no need to post that twice

[Edited on Mar 16, 2005 12:30PM]

justin is a mangy dog

Justin Hawkins has the worst smile in the world... his teethare just gross! yeah and he has no sex appeal. But I do like the band!