MY PROG HERO
DAN HAWKINS
Inspiring the wider music world…
The Darkness guitarist cautions against meeting your prog heroes, especially if it happens to be Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Dan Hawkins (inset) wonders if Ian Anderson will ever speak to him again.
PRESS/IAN ANDERSON
PRESS/SIMON EMMETT
“When The Darkness split in 2006, our then-bass player Richie Edwards and I formed a band called Stone Gods. He’s a big Jethro Tull fan, and he was like, ‘I think you’d like them.’ I was like, ‘Really?’ I think it was because I’d started getting into stuff like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. So there I was in my Norfolk farmhouse, on my own because I was single at the time, and Jethro Tull just seemed to fit my surroundings. And that was my soundtrack to a good couple of years.