Moran has assembled an incongruous supporting cast: James Corden and Ralf Little portray members of the Tornados; Justin Hawkins of the Darkness plays another of Meek’s charges, Screaming Lord Sutch; and Kevin Spacey makes his British film debut as Major Banks, Meek’s stiff-upper-lipped business partner.
The collapse of his former band, The Darkness, and an unsuccessful attempt to represent the United Kingdom in 2007’s Eurovision Song Contest have hardly dampened Justin Hawkins‘ drive.
"The Hot Leg musical roadshow kicks off tonight at The Woughton Centre in Milton Keynes.
The Leg has spent the last few weeks rehearsing, rehearsing, performing at Stay Beautiful, pre-recording TV appearances, rehearsing, shooting a video for I've Met Jesus and rehearsing. We've been working our perfect little bumbums off and we hope you enjoy the results...
There will be plenty of exciting Leg news in the coming weeks but until then we'll see you at the music concerts!
Great music, great."
JHR wishes the band to have a fantastic tour, and can't wait for the exciting times ahead
Justin Joins Ben for an Australian First chatting about his new band HOT LEG and Talking everything Galvatrons from their UK Single Launch.
| 11 Oct 2008 |
Billboard: Justin Hawkins Starts Fresh With Hot Leg
The collapse of his former band, the Darkness, and an unsuccessful attempt to represent the United Kingdom in 2007's Eurovision Song Contest have hardly dampened Justin Hawkins' drive.
But the frontman of new rock quartet Hot Leg has quite an act to follow. The Darkness' huge U.K. success saw the band's 2003 U.K. chart-topping debut album, "Permission to Land" (Atlantic), sell 1.4 million copies domestically, according to the Official Charts Co.; Nielsen SoundScan puts U.S. sales at 710,000.
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Hawkins described how Hot Leg play “Man Rock”. Last time I browsed through a record shop, there was no “Man Rock” CD section. This is a genre that Hawkins has come up with himself and decided defines his band’s sound. “Why Man Rock?” he muses rhetorically. “I think anything with ‘man’ at the start sounds impressive. Man-sized tissues. How big are they? They’ve got to be huge haven’t they?”