The Darkness Wages Verbal War On Coldplay!

‘’The Darkness Wages Verbal War On Coldplay!’’

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 14, 2005

What is it about British bands slagging each other off? While we find it more than amusing, what really is their point? From where we stand, it usually appears to be a suspicious case of intentionally using backstabbing, biting remarks to actually gain notoriety, press, a sh*tload of free publicity, equating to increased record and concert ticket sales, (or so they hope!)

Here in the USA, rappers from the so called west coast, notoriously ‘’feud’’ with east coast rappers no doubt for the same reason. But back to those Brits, (who by the way we love!)

In the mid 1990’s Oasis and Blur were infamous for their scathing verbal pot shots against one another in the media. Nothing was off limits; musical talent, record sales, physical features, often going way below the belt.

Course Oasis slags off everyone in the history of music with exception to their idols, the Beatles. These days Oasis’s favorite sparring partner is Bloc Party.

Now, Britain’s over the top, flamboyant glam/metal band, The Darkness are going after sensitive singer/songwriter, Chris Martin, frontman for Coldplay.

‘’NME.com’’ reports that Darkness frontman, the never one to mince words, Justin Hawkins ripped into Martin’s work with both the Make Trade Fair Campaign and last year’s Band Aid 20 project, single release, ‘’Do They Know It’s Christmas?’’, which both Hawkins and Martin collaborated on.

Hawkins states about Martin’s charity work ‘’This ‘make fair safe’ stuff he does gets on my nerves. It’s all just a bit cheap’’. Hawkins then goes on to take a dig at Martin during Martin’s Band Aid work, stating ‘’During Band Aid, Chris swanned in, stayed for about 20 minutes…we were there for 2 days and worked our behinds off. He (Martin) obviously doesn’t care. I got the sense he was doing it just to raise his profile’’.

Excuse us Justin, but isn’t that exactly what YOU are doing with your snarky remarks? Trying to raise The Darkness’s profile?

Seeing as how Coldplay sold out their entire 2005 USA and European tours and their newest release, ‘’XandY’’ has gone multi-platinum worldwide, we smell a STINKY Darkness fish.

After all, The Darkness have barely ever cracked the USA market and Hawkins’ timing launching all catty like into Chris seems a little too perfect in that The Darkness just released their sophomore album, ‘’One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back’’, and are surely keeping a close eye on the European, and in particular, the U.S. sales charts.

Bullocks Justin! We think Chris is more than committed to the Make Trade Fair Campaign and he rocked his butt off with Coldplay for the cause at Live 8 as well. If it helps Coldplay’s sales, so what?

No involvement with any charity could possibly cause that many people to run out and buy Coldplay’s new record and concert tickets, especially since both the British press and the American press take hand rubbing, gleeful pleasure in regularly scourging Coldplay.

Just admit it Justin. We mean, we like The Darkness too. But you’re wanking on Chris Martin? Oh, please. Nothing like a little verbal ‘’war’’ to generate, what was that you called it, one more time Justin, raising your profile? Wank, wank, wank all the way home, Mr. Green With Envy! To be continued….

Source:
http://www.nme.com/news/the-darkness/21504

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By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 14, 2005