Has Frankie quite The Darkness?<a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005230503,00.html">The Sun say so</a>, maybe it's just a publicity thing though... not heard anything from the band for a while.<br /><br />Frankie PoullainFrank Darkness was at the Barfly last night, Shed Seven night... He was there to DJ at the club afterwards I think, a charity night in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital called "Doing it for the Kids". Possibly he was also having a shandy or three t... Frankie Machine Live DatesFrancis Albert has been a little nervous about playing live - let's be fair, would YOU want to pour your heart out to a whole bunch of strangers like that? In a PUB? - but after months of trying, he's FINALLY been persuaded to play some gigs. You c... What is the best music format?MJ Hibbett has a new EP to promote - A Church Hall Of Sound (revisited), a truncated reworking of his acclaimed album of the same name. But the album didn't have "revisited" in the title. 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