---
type: Article
title: Permission to Land
description: Over the past few months I kept hearing a bizarre but brilliant song on XFM and it grew on me. So much so that I just went out and bought the album - Permission to Land by The Darkness.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2003-07-21-permission-to-land/
tags: [Shorticles, Music]
timestamp: 2003-07-21
---


Over the past few months I kept hearing a bizarre but brilliant song on XFM and its grew on me. So much so that I just went out and bought the album - Permission to land by the UK's most outrageous new rock band [The Darkness](https://web.archive.org/web/20091129012105/http://www.thedarknessrock.com/). 

Everything harks back to the golden era of heavy British rock - so much so that I have purchased tickets to go and see them in October but not at Hammersmith Odeon but at the Lees Cliff Hall in Folkestone - one of my fav rock venues where I have seen many many big acts perform to the small but very vocal crowd. Some people think that the Darkness are doing a Spinal Tap and it's a big wind up - who cares, this band is going places!

My fav off the album so far is Get off of my woman. What's yours?


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