5 Years Of Strap Original Live shows

5 Years Of Strap Original Live shows

Peter Doherty

PRESENTS

5 YEARS OF STRAP ORIGINALS

artist performances & Q&A with Peter each night

MAY 28TH MANCHESTER THE WHITE HOTEL ANDREW CUSHIN / VONA VELLA 

MAY 29TH LONDON 100 CLUB TRAMPOLENE / EVAN WILLIAMS 

MAY 30TH LONDON 100 CLUB REAL FARMER / PREGOBLIN / JACK JONES  

To mark Strap Originals’ 5th anniversary, label boss Peter Doherty will host three special celebratory nights in Manchester and London in May. Each night will feature Strap Originals artists live in concert: Vona Vella/AndrewCushin (The White Hotel, Manchester 28th), Evan Williams/Trampolene (100 Club, London 29th) and Jack Jones/PREGOBLIN/Real Farmer (100 Club, London 30th). On all three nights Peter will do a Q&A with a journalist about his life, his music and his vision for the label. Tickets for these extra special shows are available here:

TICKETS Manchester – The White Hotel 28th May 

TICKETS London – 100 Club 29th May 

TICKETS London – 100 Club 30th May  

The full details are:

MAY

28th  Tuesday –  SALFORD – The White Hotel 

Live performances: VONA VELLA / ANDREW CUSHIN

Peter Q&A with Chris Hawkins

29th Wednesday – LONDON – 100 Club

Live performances: EVAN WILLIAMS / TRAMPOLENE

Peter Q&A with Sydney Lima

30th Thursday – LONDON – 100 Club

Live Performances: JACK JONES /PREGOBLIN / REAL FARMER

Peter Q&A with Matt Wilkinson

pic by ed cooke

Strap Originals was launched in 2017 with the release of Peter Doherty & The PutaMadres self titled album. The label has gone on to release six Top 10 Independent Albums by Andrew Cushin, Trampolene and Peter Doherty, along with critically acclaimed albums by Vona Vella, PREGOBLIN and Real Farmer. Strap Originals also entered the book publishing world at the end of last year with a novel by Jack Jones (Trampolene) entitled ‘Swansea To Hornsey’.

Strap Originals is a stand-alone Independent label owned by Peter Doherty and his manager Jai Stanley working alongside managing director Charlie Dilks. It is independently financed and is committed to signing new original artists and allowing them to evolve and have creative control.

https://strap-originals.com/

STRAP ORIGINALS ALBUM RELEASES 

PETER DOHERTY & THE PUTA MADRES – S/T SOLP001

TRAMPOLENE – Love No Less Than A Queen SOLP002

PETER DOHERTY & FREDERIC LO – The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime SOLP003

ANDREW CUSHIN – You Don’t Belong SOLP004

TRAMPOLENE – Live From Swansea Arena SOLP005

TRAMPOLENE – Rules Of Love & War  SOLP006

VONA VELLA – Go Outside Forever SOLP007

VONA VELLA – S/T  SOLP009

ANDREW CUSHIN – Waiting For The Rain SOLP010

TRAMPOLENE – Swansea To Hornsey (Anniversary Edition) SOLP011

PREGOBLIN – PREGOBLIN II SOLP012

REAL FARMER – Compare What’s There SOLP013

Strap Originals is distributed by FUGA (digital) & Cargo (physical).

All albums are available on vinyl from all good record stores. 

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.

Pic courtesy of Ed Cook

The Battered Songbook Tour – Peter Doherty

The Battered Songbook Tour – Peter Doherty

Acoustic solo Tour of the UK 

Peter Doherty, the Millennial Jean Genie/Jean Genet, will embark on his first solo acoustic tour in ten years, with a series of intimate ‘Songbook’ shows in the spring. Peter will be performing a selection of nuggets from his back catalogue, including classics from The Libertines, Babyshamble and not forgetting all of his delicious solo projects/records. 

Peter promises to take audiences on an unforgettable ride into his strange and fascinating world where nothing is as it seems and life itself is an intense euphoric dream. Friends and special guests are expected to join him on occasion across these seventeen dates. ‘The Battered Songbook Tour’ culminates in a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on the 5th May. Tickets for the UK shows will go on sale Friday 24th Februaryat 10:00am and are available from: https://linktr.ee/peterdohertyofficial

APRIL

13th THU Belfast – Limelight

14th FRI Dublin – Opium Rooms

15th SAT Cork – Cyprus Avenue

18th TUE Glasgow – SWG3

19th WED Stockton – KU Bar

21st FRI Newcastle – Riverside

22nd SAT Lancaster – Kanteena

23rd SUN Hull – The Welly Club

24th MON Norwich – The Waterfront

26th WED Manchester – O2 Ritz

27th THU Liverpool (Anfield) – The Church

29th SAT Bristol – O2 Academy

30th SUN Falmouth – Princess Pavilion

MAY

2nd TUE Oxford – O2 Academy

3rd WED Sheffield – O2 Academy

4th THU Birmingham – O2 Institute

5th FRI London – Royal Albert Hall

Peter Doherty has released ten albums – three with The Libertines Up The Bracket (2002), The Libertines(2004) & Anthems For Doomed Youth(2015); three with Babyshambles: Down In Albion (2005), Shotters Nation (2007) & Sequel To The Prequel (2013); two solo albums: Grace/Wastelands (2009) & Hamburg Demonstrations (2017); one as Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres (2019) and most recently a collaboration with Frederic Lo The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime (2022).