4) The Darkness

Yes, this is another reminder to Shaun and Buck that they should have come to the Adelaide show last year in April. Armed with loud guitars, a great sense of humour and above all one of the few great frontmen of our generation, The Darkness briefly achieved world-wide infamy from 2003 to 2006. Their first album, Permission to Land, was a thirty-eight minute opus that had everything I love about music: energy, heart and fun. The follow up One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back was more extreme with pound for pound less rock songs, but in its place were more ballads such as the aching “Seemed Like A Good Idea At the Time”, not to mention the superior cock jokes, both in set-up and punch line, especially in "English Country Garden".

Justin Hawkins was the perfect frontman, a sublime entertainer, lyricist and songwriter. In fact he’s probably the most versatile singer since the person he’s most commonly compared to, Freddy Mercury, although even Mr Mercury stopped short of comparing a love that doesn’t make sense to pubic lice (“Growing On Me”). I’ve gone through the whole series of articles without using the word genius, but come one! A band broken way, way before its time due to said frontman's drug problem, but I predict they’ll be back by 2010 for the big comeback album.