Concert Photos: The Darkness Delivered Old-School Glam at the Agora

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Getting back together in 2011, original bassist Frankie Poullain and Hawkins rejoined the band and they’ve been going strong ever since. While their name may evoke mystery or the absence of light, their stop at the Agora on Sunday night was anything but. Touring in support of their newest album Dreams on Toast, the quartet played to about a thousand diehard fans gathered to hear some hard rock soaked in old school glam. A little after 9:00, Justin Hawkins came out dressed in a large, oversized jacket a la David Byrne/Stop Making Sense. Irish openers Mark Daley and the Ravens played a 45-minute warm-up set of hard rock tunes.