She has performed multiple American and European concert tours,[1][2] and has had music played on hundreds of radio stations across North America and Europe, as well as featured in television shows on MTV.

In 1995, Christy Darlington formed a punk rock band called "Mess" with drummer Steven Visneau and bassist Ron Malippa.

The band's first single "Sugar Fix" was featured on a compilation released by Clear Channel Communications Rock FM radio station KDGE entitled Tales from the Edge Volume 11.,[12] followed by another single, "Butt-in-ski", on the Dallas Observer compilation CD Scene, Heard Vol.

Starting in late 1996 thru late 1997, Mess played its first out of town concert opening for the band Fastball and performed multiple U.S. tours between January and September 1997, including opening slots for major label bands NY Loose, the Reverend Horton Heat, Keanu Reeves' group Dogstar, Radish, Funland, Hagfish, Tripping Daisy, Fluffy, 22 Jacks, the Queers, Swingin Utters, Agent Orange, At the Drive-in, Showcase Showdown, Furious George and the U.S.

although no video was allowed, a photo of the band sitting on the entrance sign was featured on a split vinyl EP they shared with 22 Jacks.

[18] The band also recorded a live concert at the famed CBGB rock venue in New York City, although this would only be released later under the Darlington name.

[29] In 2008, Darlington released a limited-to-1000 hand-numbered CD copies mini-anthology entitled indoor-outdoor Luxury BBQ, of which the title was inspired by an episode of the British television program Keeping Up Appearances.

From 1998 to 2011 Darlington opened for Lagwagon, Bowling for soup, DGeneration, Centro-matic, the Click Five, the Apers, Teen Idols, the Lillingtons, the Huntingtons, Bratmobile, the Queers, the Unlovables, Good Riddance, the Eyeliners, SR-71 (band), the Prozacs, Red Lightning and appeared on the Vans Warped tour twice.

[36] After putting together a lineup and performing live, "Sunglasses&Sugar" recorded a three song Maxi-Single entitled "Tinsel Tree" that was produced and mixed by Salim Nourallah.

After eight live shows, which included opening up for singer Lezlie Deane's band Scary cherry and the bang bangs, the Dollyrots, and Jaret Reddick's band People on Vacation, Darlington disbanded the project to work with Broadway Recording Company on compiling out-of-print releases for reissue and writing new material.

[38] In 2015, Darlington resumed touring across the U.S. performing without a full band live, completely solo playing only an electric guitar.

Generally, Christy Darlington has been known for songs with obnoxious, sarcastic and often sexually suggestive or explicit lyrics, some with a left-leaning political bent.

[46] In 2009, Darlington maintained a blog she titled Sunglasses&Sugar in which she conducted interviews with many famous and semi-famous people from various walks of life which included Mark Pirro of Tripping Daisy and the Polyphonic Spree, Cliffy Huntington of the Huntingtons, Joe Queer of the Queers, Zach Blair of Rise Against and Hagfish band, Phanie Diaz of Girl in a coma, Tish Ciravolo of Daisy Rock Guitars, Boz Boorer of Morrissey's band, singer Alice Bag, Brendan B.

Brown of Wheatus, singer Brijitte West of the band NY Loose, Darley Newman, host of Equitrekking, and Julie Schablitsky of Time Team America.

[27][56] After a three-year legal battle over a charge of sexual assault stemming from a 2006 encounter with a 16-year-old girl, Darlington accepted a plea bargain in 2009 for five years deferred adjudication probation as well as mandatory counseling.

Texas state law prohibited Darlington from presenting mitigating evidence that the female had misrepresented her age to her in court as a defense.