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Oh dear. Tony Blair's admitted to liking The Darkness, lowering him another notch in my estimation. The problem with The Darkness is that if they are a joke, apart from going on for way too long, they're nowhere near as funny as Spinal Tap and if they are serious, then they're just rubbish. And I say this as someone who used to be a heavy metal kid (you want embarrassing personal revelations on a blog? The first gig I went to was Whitesnake at the Birmingham NEC) and knows for sure that there were (and probably still are) a large number of bands who can make music that's a hell of a lot better than anything from The Darkness, but they've been ironically dubbed cool by the NME so everyone says they like them this week.