Peter Doherty New Album and Tour

Peter Doherty New Album and Tour

Peter Doherty is delighted to announce the release of his fantastic new album, Felt Better Alive, through Strap Originals on Friday 16th May. The release is Peter’s first solo album in nine years and the glorious rambunctious title track Felt Better Alive is out today as the first single. Felt Better Alive is available to preorder now from: Here

Peter will be touring, playing 9 ‘Anywhere In Albion’ UK shows, and 7 ‘Felt Better Alive In Europe’ shows. Tickets are available to presave now from Here

and go on general sale at 10:00am on Friday January 17th. 

Felt Better Alive will be available on CD, 12” vinyl in limited edition coloured variants, deluxe double vinyl, cassette and digital download with exclusive and signed items from the Official Store:Here

A limited edition bonus disc, “Bootstrap Sessions”, will be available on vinyl for the first time ever! with songs taken from Peter’s notorious bootleg sessions (2003-2007). The 12 track album includes amongst others:’Killamangiro’, ‘Ballad Of Grimaldi’, ’Lady Don’t Fall Backwards’/‘Bollywood To Batersea’ and ‘Hooligans On E’.

‘Felt Better Alive’ is Peter Doherty’s most confident solo collection yet, sprinkled with radiant playfulness, almost innocence at times, shot through with Peter Doherty’s signature melodic nous, quirky poetic realism and visual story-telling gifts.

The songs began in an idyllic rural setting, the Normandy village where Peter and his family live. Peter enlisted his friend and producer/musician Mike Moore, who’s produced Baxter Dury and plays guitar in Liam Gallagher’s band.

Peter says of the pedal steel driven song Felt Better Alive: “It’s quite bouncy, quite country. ‘Dredging the mouth of the Humber’ is a line from Hancock [about coagulated sprinkled sugar in the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes]. The chorus I love, ‘And I’d always planned/To sing in a sweet and soulful way as only cowboys can/But my saddle strap snapped like a dog-chewed tourniquet…’It’s an accurate description of how I feel about certain times in my life, y’know? Treasures of the Sierra Mardre: you set off on this mission for the gold and you just ended up lost in the mountains, being hunted by bandits.”

Anyone preordering the album will be in with a chance to purchase tickets for the UK and Europe Tours in March – May. Peter will also be touring Europe/Australia and Korea with The Libertines in early 2025 and playing two other solo shows in Newport – ICC Wales (8th March) and Antiguel Festival in Geneva (6th April). The full list of solo dates is:

MARCH

8th SAT Newport ICC Wales

‘Anywhere In Albion’:

12th WED Wimborne The Tivoli Theatre

13th THU Birmingham XOYO

14th FRI Oldham Whittles

16th  SAT Bristol Trinity Centre

17th MON Deptford New Cross Inn 

18th TUE Catford  Blackheath Halls

20th THU Mansfield Canvas

21st FRI Watford Palace Theatre

23rd SUN Newcastle Wylam Brewery

APRIL

6th SUN Geneva Antigel Festival

‘Felt Better Alive In Europe’:

26th SAT Paris Le Trianon

30th WED Amsterdam  Melkweg

MAY

1st THU Cologne Die Kantine

2nd FRI Berlin Festisaal Kreuzberg

3rd SAT Leipzig  Taubchenthal

5th MON Munich Technikum

13th TUE Bruges Cactus Muziekcentrum

Peter Doherty enjoyed No.1 album status with The Libertines fourth studio album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ in 2024. A buoyant spirit permeates Peter Doherty’s fifth solo album, Felt Better Alive, a gorgeous collection of poetic vignettes, both acoustic and orchestral, indie-folk and country, poignant and outright comic. 

Peter’s not only a survivor but a creative powerhouse, with more projects, plans and reasons to stay alive than he’s ever had. And in 2025, the year he turns 46, with Felt Better Alive, brings us some of the most deft, bouncy and charming songs of his always melodic life.

Peter Doherty has released eleven albums – Four with The Libertines Up The Bracket (2002), The Libertines (2004), Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015)& All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade (2024); three with Babyshambles: Down In Albion (2005), Shotters Nation (2007) & Sequel To The Prequel (2013); two solo albums: Grace/Wastelands (2009) & Hamburg Demonstrations (2016); one as Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres (2019) and a collaboration with Frederic Lo The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime (2022).

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The Libertines – Great Hall, Cardiff University. Cardiff – 07.10.24

The Libertines – Great Hall, Cardiff University. Cardiff – 07.10.24

Once again we gathered in the great hall at Cardiff University watching Dead Freight use their twenty-five minutes to good effect with a solid sound much the same as when we were here the last time The Libertines played at this venue and Dead Freight supported Then I wasn’t familiar with much of the set but again the band impressed with their full bloodied sound of indie post-punk with the set closer of ‘Bat Man’ being the band standout track and a great way to end their set for a nicely filling up room.

Now last time The Libertines played here it was a Saturday night. The venue was heaving from the get go but tonight it’s a more chilled-out Cardiff Uni possibly due to it being a School night. Still, there aren’t the same level of pissed young men throwing themselves about which is quite nice and there is a time and a place for such uncontrolled behaviours. It would seem tonight wasn’t the time or place however from the opening song Cardiff was in fine voice as the band took the stage looking match fit and sounding like they’ve been rearing to go for weeks and with the set list bedded in the band were sounding fantastic having road tested some of the new songs earlier on their club tour that was fantastic to see the band at close quarters again.

Kicking off with ‘The Delaney’ it was evident after the opening three or four songs the band were in no mood to fuck about and it was down to some serious rocking business and ‘What Became, ‘Boys In The Band’ and ‘What Katie Did’ their telepathic frontmanship weave was in sync as Doherty and Barât interchanged vocals and guitar parts with a majestic telepathy that is a sight to behold and tonight in rather fetching fedoras they looked every inch the been there seen it done it Roc n Rollas that they are and The Libertines 2024 are all the better for it. Tonight, when they only need a glance across the stage from one to the other, they work as one no words necessary, just that innate bit of magic that not every band possesses but the Libertines do.

Again it’s the rhythm section that pushes our six stringing pirates all the way with a thunderous energy that is often the overlooked force behind the Libertines, Gary often seeming like he has about three pairs of arms and John Hassall holding everything in place that enables the two swashbuckling frontmen the room to do what they do.

We get the usual suspects off the first two albums with the odd song off their third album thrown in for good measure but tonight the new songs off their magnificent ‘All Quiet’ album that lifts the set and sit perfectly in the set alongside fan favourites I might as well point out here that they played every song off ‘All Quiet’ with the exception of ‘Barons Claw’ which is quite remarkable yet not surprising such is the band’s confidence and belief in this new material.

From ‘Horrorshow’ to ‘Run Run Run’ which is greeted like an old friend, the main set is brought to an end with a goosebump rendition of ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ and the foursome exit stage left to a well-deserved rapturous applause.

Of course they were going to return to the stage to a seven-song encore that began with a cosy gather around the ole Joanna as ‘Man With The Melody’unfolds before ‘Oh Shit’ cleared the head before ‘Gunga Din and ‘Last Post’ enabled a quick intake of breath before we head into the home straight and the ‘Time For Heroes’ before we get a loose run through ‘Songs They Never Play On The Radio’ before we get the familiar fireworks of ‘Don’t Look back Into The Sun’ and we’re done. Cardiff has once again been thoroughly entertained by one of the UK’s finest bands currently making new records and touring. Always a pleasure and never a chore if you get the chance I can’t recommend seeing The Libertines highly enough. Wonderful band and probably better than you would imagine trust me I know these things. Same time same place next year gents thank you very muchly, you beautiful, talented bastards.

Author: Dom Daley

The Libertines – ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ (EMI)

The Libertines – ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ (EMI)

The Fourth Libertines album has been on some journey. After being put back for one reason or another the release is finally upon us. All the anticipation and build-up has been an age but that wait is over and ‘All Is Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is with us, and if it could be summed up in one sentence (Which it can’t) it is fair to say its the most Libertines album you could wish for in 2024 – predictable yet unpredictable it weaves a rich tapestry as the band deliver what might well turn out to be a career highlight.

After a short run of tiny club dates to wet the appetite of the salivating masses the album kicks off in true swaggering ragged glory with the albums lead single ‘Run Run Run’ but that is only the start of it. Buckle up kids this is one hell of an album and as the band open up the ragged ‘Mustang’ as they go through the gears they enter cruise control for the Carl-led song that is masterfully captured on wax, this truly sounds like the band has managed to bottle that spirit and jour de vivre and give it a sound as they weave their merry melodies.

‘Have A Friend’ is Docherty rattling off the vocals, but it’s the energy they’ve captured here from the tight rhythm to the heartfelt lyrics that fall from his mouth – it’s pure audio joy before the relaxed and trippy ‘Merry Old England’ enters the ether. With a slightly dreamy tempo and piano leading the way it’s like a mature (should I call it that?) trip with the solid beat as Pete tackles how people coming to this island might view this land and a song of hope that the real beating heart of a country is still welcoming and hospitable and a place where people can come and make it their own adding to its rich tapestry wherever they come from and its all wrapped up in a very busy arrangement from the backing vocals to the lush string in its undertow. great song.

‘Man With A Melody’ is the record’s first ballad-like track. With its pace slowed right down and the vocals intertwined perfectly as the song unfolds having all voices heard on the twisting vision of a busker (Carls Words) but possibly the most un Libertines track on offer here showing you can indeed teach an old dog new tricks.

Back on brand ‘Oh Shit’ is a blast, shaking off any cobwebs and sure to be a live favourite. On offer with this new album is essentially eleven songs that weave their merry way via uptempo rockers and the slower more thoughtful songs as well as the more jazzy ragged numbers such as the gentle ‘Barons Claw’ as its loose barroom number complete with jazzy trumpet and piano tinkling and hushed late-night vocals.

The second side of the record is certainly a more varied ensemble of tunes than the opening side as the Libertines spread their wings. ‘Shiver’ sounds like Pete opening another chapter of his soul then ‘Be Young’ picks up the pace as Carl spits out the lyrics the energy of the verses then a handbreak turn on the chorus before the bridge of a reggaefied verse before tearing up the solo. An excellent song which only leaves the final thoughtful ‘Songs They Never Play On The Radio’ as the band gently signs off a rather splendid album that twists and turns and draws out the best this band can offer which is so identifiable and original without being original and delivering an album that will be tough to ignore. Exactly the album you want from these four reliable, adventurous, unpredictable but thoroughly excellent – A massive big up The Libertines and ‘Alls Quiet’ their perfect album for this moment in time. A band that it would seem to have found peace with who they are and how and where they fit in, and a sort of maturity (Libertines and maturity? Never) to change it up yet still be those lads full of piss and vinegar who know how to deliver their craft better than pretty much everyone else out of their genre. ‘All Quiet On The Easter Esplanade’ will prove to be a bit of a masterpiece, mark my words – Buy It!


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‘Oh Shit!’ The Libertines – release another new single

‘Oh Shit!’ The Libertines – release another new single

‘Oh Shit’ is the latest single from their forthcoming new album due in April listen here: TheLibertines.lnk.to/OhShit

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Oh shit ,oh shit

Lets make some money

Just enough to get us by

The Libertines release a fabulous new single (quite possibly the most Libertines single ever!) on Wednesday 6th March. Entitled Oh Shit it is an earworm anthem for these economically challenging times and is taken from their eagerly awaited new album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade which hits the streets on April 5th.

Written by Carl Barat and Peter Doherty, Oh Shit is the fourthsingle to be lifted from All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, following the release of Run, Run, Run VIDEO, Night Of The Hunter VIDEO and Shiver VIDEO  You can preorder the new album here: TheLibertines.lnk.to/AQOTEEPR 

The Libertines’ UK/IRELAND tour all but sold out within hours of being announced – faster than any previous tours in their history – which nails the lie that no-one wants to see bands live anymore. To cater for the unprecedented demand, a third and final night has been added at Manchester’s Albert Hall on Saturday 9th November.

The full dates for the All Quiet On The Esplanade Tour are:

SEPTEMBER 

23rd MON Dublin  3Olympia Theatre SOLD OUT

24th TUE Belfast The Telegraph Building SOLD OUT

OCTOBER

3rd THU Birmingham O2 Academy SOLD OUT

4th FRI Norwich UEA SOLD OUT

5th SAT Cambridge  The Corn Exchange SOLD OUT

7th MON Cardiff Great Hall FEW TICKETS

8th TUE Bristol O2 Academy SOLD OUT

17th THU Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom SOLD OUT

18th FRI Glasgow  Barrowland Ballroom SOLD OUT

19th Sat Liverpool Mountford Hall SOLD OUT

21st Mon Nottingham Rock City SOLD OUT

22nd  TUE Leeds O2 Academy SOLD OUT

30th WED London Roundhouse FEW TICKETS

31st THU London Roundhouse SOLD OUT

NOVEMBER

1st FRI London Roundhouse FEW TICKETS

4th MON Sheffield The Octagon FEW TICKETS

5th TUE Newcastle NX SOLD OUT

7th THU Manchester Albert Hall SOLD OUT

8th FRI Manchester Albert Hall SOLD OUT

9th SAT Manchester Albert Hall TICKETS ON SALE 9AM 8TH MARCH

The Libertines will be playing the following in/out-store shows on the week of release of the new album with a special Q&A happening at Rough Trade East.

APRIL IN/OUT-STORES:

5th  FRI  Coventry HMV Empire

6th  SAT Birmingham Acoustic

Manchester Academy w/ Crash Records

8th MON Rough Trade East Q&A w/ Rough Trade

9th TUE Pryzm Kingston w/ Banquet Records

As previously announced The Libertines will headline ‘On The Beach Festival’ in Brighton on Sunday, July 28th.

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The Libertines – UK Tour 2024

The Libertines – UK Tour 2024

The last gang in town The Libertines, who release their hotly anticipated new album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade on March 15th, have announced a UK & Irish tour commencing in Dublin on 23rd September and taking in two shows at The Roundhouse in London and culminating at Manchester’s Albert Hall on 7th November.

Head to the official Libertines store Here and pre-order the new album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade to get exclusive ticket pre-sale access at 9am on Wednesday 21st February 2024. Tickets go on general sale Friday 23rd February at 9:00am.

The Libertines’ once-seen-never-forgotten live shows are here to save humanity from holograms, virtual reality and AI auto-tuned bullshit, so switch off your pocket-held marketing machine and come and experience raw analogue euphoria at the hands of these delirious musical chaos-mongers. 

The full dates for the All Quiet On The Esplanade Tour are:

SEPTEMBER 

23rd MON Dublin  3Olympia Theatre

24th TUE Belfast The Telegraph Building

OCTOBER

3rd THU Birmingham O2 Academy

4th FRI Norwich UEA

5th SAT Cambridge  The Corn Exchange

7th MON Cardiff Great Hall

8th TUE Bristol O2 Academy

18th FRI Glasgow  Barrowland Ballroom

19th Sat Liverpool Mountford Hall

21st Mon Nottingham Rock City

22nd  TUE Leeds O2 Academy

30th WED London Roundhouse

31st THU London Roundhouse

NOVEMBER

4th MON Sheffield The Octagon

5th TUE Newcastle NX

7th THU Manchester Albert Hall

As previously announced The Libertines will headline ‘On The Beach Festival’ in Brighton on Sunday, July 28th.

The Libertines have so far lifted three genius singles from their fabulous new album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade: Run, Run, Run VIDEO, Night Of The Hunter VIDEO and Shiver VIDEO Preorder your copy here: TheLibertines.lnk.to/AQOTEEPR 

The Libertines are Peter Doherty – vocals/guitar, Carl Barât – vocals/guitar, John Hassall – bass guitar and Gary Powell– drums. The band have released three albums: Up The Bracket (2002); The Libertines (2004); and Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015).

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The Libertines – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 27.01.24

The Libertines – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 27.01.24

The hottest ticket in town had to be The Libertines playing the compact and frankly undersized venue Clwb Ifor Bach. Could probably have sold it out ten times over and demand would still have been feverish. With doors being delayed by a good ninety minutes the queue snaking down Womanby Street was like the entrance to Wonkas factory as people clutched their golden tickets. The band has been loyal to Cardiff with several shows in the city over the last few years and then with a new album set for delivery towards the end of March it was time for the boys in the band to regroup and test out some of the new songs on audiences around the country and what better way than in small grassroots venues that would be packed to the rafters and boy was Clwb Ifor packed.

Arriving on stage fashionably late The fab four waste no time in getting on with business. It’s a work through ‘Up The Bracket’ and ‘Vertigo’ to warm things up and loosen the voices of the semi-inebriated audience who were all looking to make the best of this opportunity to catch the band this close and personal. The recent single ‘Run Run Run’ was the first song off the new album to be aired and the masses were already throwing themselves around and singing along like it had been in the set for years. it wasn’t long before a couple of other new songs were played in the shape of ‘Night Of The Hunter’ and ‘Shiver’ with the former being the chance to grab an early breather as the wall I found myself pressed against was actually perspiring I swear it and on Stage right Pete was still wearing his Crombie buttoned up and a hat with a rather fetching Rosary bead wrapped around his forehead for dramatic effect no doubt not something I can see catching on but hey, you never know. Pete and Carl were their usual busy selves on stage interacting as they took the mic for their lines like a well-oiled machine and as the set developed the audience began to fall over itself at the lip of the low stage. There were calls for people to take a step back which fell on deaf ears and instead whilst nobody was injured the security did a decent job in refreshing the audience with bottles of cold water.

The middle of the set eased back with ‘Shiver’ from the new album before a rousing sing-a-long of ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ and ‘What Kate Did’ before the cool swagger of ‘Mustang’ played out the last of the new songs. It was heads down and time to get busy before the curfew was ignored and ‘Death On The Stairs’ lit a torch under a magnificent run through ‘Time For Heroes’ and the main set was done.

A swift towel down and it was ‘Gunga Din which happens to be my favourite song off the last album before ‘The Good Old Days’ loosened the audience up for one last hurrah of an epic ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’ and this sweaty mess was over and we could all wander out into the cool January night and some much-needed oxygen. I’d almost forgotten what it was like to go to a sold-out sweaty show by a big band in a small club and it was indeed one of those nights where you’re grateful to have discovered this thing we all love called Rock n Roll because The Libertines are one of the best if not the best live band the United Kingdom has produced in decades and these sweaty gigs are where they shine brightest. It’s their natural habitat From the magnificent rhythm section of Gary Powell and John Hassall who never drop a note and pour petrol on the fire in the engine room of The Libertines that enables Carl Barât and Peter Doherty to weave their merry notes like they are two sides of the same person yet very different in their delivery and approach and that’s where the magic of nights like this lies. A Magnificent night of music pure and simple.

Now then, Can we do this all again sometime it was a blast and I’m sure every single person who is lucky enough to attend one of these shows will testify just how bloody good The Libertines are. OK, maybe bigger venues so more people can witness how damn good a night out should be.

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Author: Dom Daley

The Libertines – ‘Shiver’ Video

The Libertines – ‘Shiver’ Video

The Libertines are cock-a-hoop to announce the release a new single Shiver, taken from the band’s forthcoming new album, All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade.

Shiver is co-written by Peter Doherty and Carl Barât:

Carl “Peter had a song and I had a song and we mashed them up and did it collaboratively.”

Peter “I would probably find it difficult to work out who did what because we were both there the whole time through its creation. It should really be called ‘The Last Dream Of Every Dying Soldier’, but everyone liked the title ‘Shiver’.”

The video for Shiver a Bergmanesque seaside funeral of a pearly king, shot in stark black and white, stars the Libertines in their sharpest charcoal threads alongside a cast of several characters who appear on the sleeve art for All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade. The video was directed by Alex Brown (La Roux / James Blake) and shot in Cliftonville, Margate, and at The Libertines’ hotel The Albion Rooms. It is the third installment in a series of Margate-themed videos, following on from first single Run, Run, Run VIDEO and Night Of The Hunter VIDEO

The Libertines will also be recording a session at BBC Maida Vale Studios later this month for broadcast on Radio 2 ‘Piano Room’ in February. 

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, The Libertines’ fourth album, is released on 8th March ’24 through EMI and is available to preorder here: TheLibertines.lnk.to/AQOTEEPR 

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors/Charli XCX/Becky Hill) and recorded at The Albion Rooms in Margate. Recorded in just four weeks during February and March ’23 and finished over seven days at La Ferme de Gestein Studios in Normandy, with additional production and mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat (Lana Del Rey/Liam Gallagher/Paul McCartney).

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade will be available on CD, deluxe CD, 12” vinyl in limited edition coloured variants, deluxe double vinyl cassette and digital download.

Having stormed the Lido in Margate for two shows in December, The Libertines play the following club shows over the next few months, all of which sold out within minutes of going on sale.

JANUARY

23rd TUE Stockton Arc

24th Wed Liverpool Cavern Club

25th THU Milton Keynes MK11

27th SAT Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach

28th SUN Derby Hairy Dog

29th  Mon Lincoln Drill Hall

FEBRUARY

11th SUN Falmouth Pavilions

12th Mon Southampton Engine Room

14th WED Stoke Underground

15th THU Leeds The Wardrobe

16th FRI Glasgow Oran Mor

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The Libertines – ‘Night Of The Hunter’ video

The Libertines – ‘Night Of The Hunter’ video

The Libertines are delighted to announce the release of a wonderful new song, a Shakespearean tale of blood and revenge, entitled Night of The Hunter, which is taken from the band’s forthcoming fourth studio album, All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade.

Peter and Carl discuss Night Of The Hunter:

Peter “We got the title from Charles Laughton’s directorial debut Night Of The Hunter starring Robert Mitchum as a preacher with ‘LOVE’ and ‘HATE’ tattooed on his knuckles. The song’s about not staying ahead of the law. This fella doesn’t really know why his mate’s dead, but he’s got a feeling his mate had it coming to him. He fucked with the wrong people, and he stole something he shouldn’t have, and he got stabbed. So, he’s angry and hurt and he has to go and get revenge, so he does and that’s it for him, basically. Once he has stabbed the lad who stabbed his mate, that’s it for him. He lashed out in revenge and he knows they’re coming to get him and he’s not even going to try and run because he knows he’ll just be running forever. 

Carl “I started writing a riff and it ended up sounding a bit like Swan Lake, and everyone went, ‘Yeah!’ Then we got Peter’s theremin player in which took about a day to get in tune, then he played that sequence and it worked beautifully.”

“The idea of getting carted off for ten years is horrendous… the condemned man dies 1000 times.”

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, The Libertines’ first new album in nine years, is released on 8th March ’24 through EMI and isavailable to preorder here: https://TheLibertines.lnk.to/AQOTEEPR 

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade features eleven new Libertines songs and was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors/Charli XCX/Becky Hill) and recorded at The Albion Rooms in Margate. Recorded in just four weeks earlier this year during February and March and finished over seven days at La Ferme de Gestein Studios in Normandy, with additional production and mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat (Lana Del Rey/Liam Gallagher/Paul McCartney).

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade will be available on CD, deluxe CD, 12” vinyl in limited edition coloured variants, deluxe double vinyl cassette and digital download.

The Libertines are Peter Doherty – vocals/guitar, Carl Barât – vocals/guitar, John Hassall – bass guitar and Gary Powell– drums. The band have released three albums: Up The Bracket (2002); The Libertines (2004); and Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015).

The Libertines play the following club shows over the next three months, all of which sold out within minutes of going on sale.

DECEMBER

9th SAT Margate Lido

10th SUN Margate Lido

JANUARY

23rd TUE Stockton Arc

24th Wed Liverpool Cavern Club

25th THU Milton Keynes MK11

27th SAT Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach

28th SUN Derby Hairy Dog

FEBRUARY

11th SUN Falmouth Pavilions

12th Mon Southampton Engine Room

14th WED Stoke Underground

15th THU Leeds The Wardrobe

16th FRI Glasgow Oran Mor

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THE LIBERTINES New album and live shows

THE LIBERTINES New album and live shows

‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ (8th March)

NEW SINGLE – Run, Run, Run (Out Now)

Plus intimate shows in Margate (9th/10th December)  

If you want the night to lastThe Libertines are excited to announce the release of their fourth studio album entitled, All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade out 8th March 2024. The release marks the band’s first new album in nine years and opens with the infectious new single, Run Run Run out today Listen Here.

‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is available to preorder from: https://TheLibertines.lnk.to/AQOTEEPR
Anyone who preorders the album will be offered the chance to purchase tickets for “All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ two days of special acoustic & electric live shows by The Libertines, at the 500 capacity Lido in Margate on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th December. Also available both nights are VIP after party tickets at the Albion Rooms and Justine’s nightclub, which will include full band DJ sets.


Opening All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade is the firstsingle Run, Run, Run, a huge singalong punk rock anthem, Carl says, “It’s about being trapped, and trying to escape your dismal life, a bit like the man in Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’. The worst thing for The Libertines would be to get stuck in a ‘Run-run-run’ rut, constantly trying to relive our past.”


On All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, the quartet of unlikely lads have gathered from their new-found homes in France, Denmark, Margate and London to solder a strongest-ever internal bond, and scale new creative heights resulting in the best music of their extraordinary career so far.
Featuring eleven new sparkling Libertines songs with songwriting credits shared among the four band members, the album was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors/Charli XCX/Becky Hill) and recorded at The Albion Rooms in Margate. Recorded in just four weeks earlier this year during February and March and finished over seven days at La Ferme de Gestein Studios in Normandy, with additional production and mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat (Lana Del Rey/Liam Gallagher/Paul McCartney).


The story of the making of All Quiet On The EasternEsplanade goes like this – in September ’22 Libs glimmer twins Doherty and Barât decamped to Geejam in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Away from any distraction the chemistry between the infamous songwriting partnership began to bubble in earnest.
Fast forward to February ’23 and Peter and Carl regrouped with rock solid knaves to the rhythm, John and Gary, at The Albion Rooms, and, says Doherty, “we really came together as a band. It was a moment of rare peace and unity, with all the members contributing.”For Carl, the whole Libertines journey has been leading to this moment. “Our first record was born out of panic, and disbelief that we were actually allowed to be in a studio; the second was born of total strife and misery; the third was born of complexity; this one feels like we were all actually in the same place, at the same speed, and we really connected.”
Peter proclaims: “We’re over the moon, and the ball is in the back of the net… and I’m chuffed for the lads!” He adds, more seriously, “I feel like we’ve completed a cycle of some kind as a band, and finally now we can add these songs to the set list, because we’ve got some bangers in there. Now we’ve opened the hotel and used the studio ourselves and it’s all worked out – more Libertines records? I should hope so!”
The album – named All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade as a nod to their hotel’s street address and their enduring love of Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark anti-war novel – is an unequivocal triumph.
All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade will be available on CD, deluxe CD, 12” vinyl in limited edition coloured variants, deluxe double vinyl cassette and digital download.

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The Libertines – ‘Up The Bracket’ 20th Anniversary Edition Box Set (Rough Trade)

The Libertines – ‘Up The Bracket’ 20th Anniversary Edition Box Set (Rough Trade)

‘Up The Bracket’ was one of those debut albums that had all the magic of a Rock and Roll band with the danger, the mystique, the band of brothers, the excitement the infamy, the notoriety, but above all the songs to back up all the claims and chaos that went with the band. The intricate workings of the main songwriters Doherty and Barat wouldn’t have worked without the rhythm section of Gary and John holding the ship steady through some choppy seas and letting the two songwriters have the freedom to weave their magic. I say this without hesitation but the Libertines were and are genius bands like this don’t come along that often and sometimes they can fall through the cracks they may have proven to be flawed but their genius is everlasting through their music and the fact they are still together and sounding as good as ever and being older and hopefully wiser right decisions are now being made and charting their early formative years in this box set is a beautiful thing. For a start getting Mick Jones to produce the record was a masterstroke because if anyone knew exactly where the band was coming from it would be Jones.

There’s a mammoth amount of music to get through on this comprehensive labor of love with live recordings, demos, and a remaster of the original album. The box set also includes a treasure trove of extras. a lavish sixty-page book with some amazing photographs and new interviews with the band and those who were circling the orbit of planet Libertine.

Of the 65 previously unreleased recordings many are original demos, radio sessions and live recordings all helping to chart the making of ‘Up The Bracket’, plus the jewel in the crown, a live recording from the 100 club in 2002. Imagine still owning a packet of Up The Bracket rizlas or some other priceless Libertines fanboy curio sadly I don’t. I still maintain that The Libertines sailed the closest to what The Clash was about musically, from the ragged intro of ‘Vertigo’ you find yourself handclapping along as the rowdy good times unfold and you’re taken back in time. After whizzing through the studio album the rapid raw energy of the 100 Club performance is epic and sweat-drenched and every sinew of energy is perfectly captured as a rapid ramshackle ‘Horror Show’ lights the gunpowder. The fantastic non album tracks with their howling feedback and shouting contest are brilliantly captured like ‘The Delaney’ and the shit-kicking single ‘What A Waster’. A fantastically captured time capsule where a band in full flight is captured.

Of the demos and studio jams, songs like ‘Wolfman’ will peak the deep dive interest of fans. I love the late-night jams that are songs like ‘7 Deadly Sins’ and acoustic jam ‘Mocking Bird’ with all the in-between banter left in which is somewhere fans aren’t normally able to attend. Grab a bottle of red sit back relax and turn off the light and imagine you’re in the room with the boys in the band.

There is a fair bit of repetition going on as one would expect when it’s focussed on a single album but there is so much more than what appeared on the record this is a beast of a box set. To hear and chart the progress of a song like ‘Boys In The Band’ is a treat from the germ of a song played with a drum machine Bontempi style, “oh so rudimentary” through the radio session to band-worked demo to what finally was rolled out on the finished shop product.

For the retro kids there is also a DVD for every song on the album as well as so much more cobbled together using never before seen footage and so much more like TOTP and Jools Holland all in one convenient place. Ask Santa or your nan for one of these because as far as box sets go this is right up there with the best.

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Author: Dom Daley