THE LIBERTINES: BUSKING FOR BEER AT FILTHY MCNASTY’S
Libertines played a surprise gig on December 1, 2003, at a busking night in the north London pub where Pete Doherty and Carl Barat used to work behind the bar. John plays 3 of his own songs after the 2 boys…
Setlist Peter & Carl set 01 intro 02 Don’t Look Back Into the Sun 03 Time for Heroes(snippet) 04 Seven Deadly Sins 05 Time for Heroes 06 The Delaney 07 Boys in the Band 08 The Good Old Days 09 France 10 Narcissist 11 Albion 12 Music When the Lights Go Out 13 Death on the Stairs 14 Bucket Shop 15 I Get Along 16 What a Waster 17 outro
Peter & Carlos full set
John Hassell set 18 intro 19 Working For The Industry 20 Never Lose Your Sense Of Wonder 21 Moneygod 22 outro
A really great gig this one, sounds it quite good & features an early version of ‘Likely Lads’.
Setlist Last Post on the Bugle Horrorshow Vertigo Up the Bracket The Delaney Mayday What Became of the Likely Lads Boys in the Band Don’t Look Back Into the Sun Time for Heroes Death on the Stairs
Legendary gig, audio ripped from video. The audio is quite good considering the source. Some great photos & an NME article to boot…
Setlist 01 intro 02 Horrorshow 03 Vertigo 04 Up The Bracket 05 “Johnny Hassell was a boy…” improv 06 Death On The Stairs 07 What a Waster 08 Don’t Look Back Into The Sun 09 Begging 10 Time for Heroes 11 The Delaney 12 I Get Along (incomplete)
Libertines played two chaotic secret gigs this weekend with venues bursting at the seams with fans eager to catch a glimpse of the newly reformed band.
Following a DJ set by guitarist Carl Barat downstairs at London’s Camden Barfly on Friday night (October 17), the band headed upstairs to play a riotous set, including the tracks ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’, ‘Horrorshow’, ‘Time For Heroes’, ‘Begging’ and ‘Up The Bracket’. The gig ended with Barat and guitarist Pete Doherty stagediving together into the baying fans.
Ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, and producer on ‘What A Waster’, was spotted at the side of the stage acting as the band’s guitar technician.
Saturday night (October 18) saw Libertines play to a cramped capacity crowd in north London’s Duke of Clarence pub. Playing an eight song-set, the performance was brought to an abrupt halt when an exuberant stage-diver fell into the band’s amplifiers and cutting the power during ‘Vertigo’.
An onlooker at the gig told NME.COM: “I couldn’t believe how many people turned up. There wasn’t even enough room for a drum kit. It was such an amazing night though and Carl had to be crowd-surfed out of the pub.”
Before the band took to the stage, bassist John Hassall played an impromptu acoustic set in the pub’s beer garden, including ‘Ten Green Bottles’ and the Peter Sarstedt’s ‘Where Do You Go To My Lovely’.
Libertines’ Duke of Clarence set-list was:
‘Time For Heroes’ ‘Death On The Stairs’ ‘Boys In The Band’ ‘The Delaney’ ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’ ‘Boy Looked At Johnny’ ‘I Get Along’ ‘Vertigo”
For more on the band’s week, see this week’s NME, which is out tomorrow (October 21) in London and nationwide from Wednesday.
I’m not sure if this is the complete performance, good gig, sound quality not great, ripped from video. NME article & Guardian review below…
01 What A Waster (by Adam Green) 02 intro 03 Horrorshow 04 Up the Bracket 05 Vertigo 06 The Delaney 07 Boys in the Band 08 Death on the Stairs 09 Mayday 10 Time for Heroes 11 Begging 12 I Get Along 13 Don’t Look Back Into the Sun 14 Happy Birthday to You 15 What a Waster 16 outro
Libertines are strongly rumoured to be playing at the ROUGH TRADE 25th Anniversary show at LONDON’s NEIGHBOURHOOD – formerly SUBTERRANEA – next Wednesday (October 15).
If the boys in the band do play they will join the bill which already boasts Adam Green, The Fiery Furnaces and The Hidden Cameras.
Despite only reforming just days ago (October 8) and surprising fans with their first gig in over four months, sources close to the band have revealed that Libertines are already thinking about playing their second date since bandmate Pete Doherty’s release from prison.
As previously reported, Pete became a free man on Wednesday after serving one month in jail after pleading guilty to burglary after breaking into bandmate Carl Barat’s flat (July 25), while Libertines were touring in Japan.
Later that night, Pete was joined on stage by the rest of the band, Carl included, at the Tap N’ Tin club in Chatham, Kent. Only 200 lucky fans were at the gig. The band’s mate Rabbi joined them for versions of ‘Sally Brown’ and ‘Dirty Old Town’.
It was the band’s first show since Pete failed to turn up for a European tour in May. Until Wednesday, Pete and Carl hadn’t seen each other since before the court case.
For the full story on how Pete and Carl got back together, including an exclusive interview with the two of them and pictures, see next week’s NME, which is out next Tuesday (October 14) in London, and Wednesday nationwide.
Libertines/ Fiery Furnaces – Neighbourhood, London
There is something disconcerting about the notion of celebrating indie label Rough Trade’s 25th anniversary. After all, it was set up amid the iconoclastic ferment of punk rock, intended as a spittle-flecked two fingers to the music industry’s institutions. It is probably fair to say that no one who saw the label’s first release – a single by an obscure French punk band called Metal Urbain – ever expected Rough Trade to become a venerable institution itself.
But that is precisely what Rough Trade has become. Wildly catholic, never less than fascinating, it has provided a home for everyone from the Smiths and the Strokes, to Scots eccentric Ivor Cutler and drum’n’bass act Spring Heel Jack.
The evening’s celebrations comprise sets from four artists signed to the label. The music of the Hidden Cameras wafts delicately around the room. New York singer-songwriter Adam Green is best known as one half of the implausibly irritating “anti-folk” duo the Moldy Peaches, but his solo set evinces a new-found maturity, its songs rooted not in faux-naive rambling but epic late 1960s pop. The Libertines’ closing set is rapturously received, but it is chaotic even by their standards – there are vast, uncomfortable gaps between the songs, the sound is ragged and their performances of The Boys in the Band and What a Waster sound as if they could collapse into clattering noise at any moment. But it barely matters. The presence of singer and guitarist Pete Doherty somewhere behind a wall of nervous-looking bouncers, released from prison barely a week ago, lends it a genuine sense of joyous celebration, somewhere between the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club and an end-of-term gig in the school hall. For all their shortcomings tonight – Doherty later calls the set a “ramshackle debacle” – it is impossible not to be swept along in the emotion of the moment.
However, the biggest surprise of the evening turns out to be the opening act. Gallowsbird’s Bark, the debut album from the Chicago brother and sister the Fiery Furnaces, is one of 2003’s unexpected treats. It is a bizarre, esoteric mix of warped, bluesy garage, off-kilter piano ballads and noisy pop. Live, however, they are a different matter. Singer Eleanor is revealed as a wild-eyed and utterly compelling performer, while the album’s quirkiness is transformed into thrilling avant-garde garage rock. Songs tumble into each other, bubblegum melodies fight for space with imponderable lyrics and wildly distorted guitars. It sounds, not inappropriately, like someone playing Rough Trade’s entire back catalogue at once.
If memory serves this one was the Queens of Noize Christmas party night or something…the video has done the rounds for years but this is the first time the audio has been ripped to separate MP3’s….sounds not great but some really great stuff, lots of rare tunes…ye gotta love Pigman’s hat!
Tracklist 01 Intro by Wolfman 02 Mockingbird 03 Don’t Look Back Into The Sun 04 Time For Heroes 05 Last Post On The Bugle 06 Seven Deadly Sins 07 Death On The Stairs 08 All At Sea 09 What Katie Did 10 Boys In The Band 11 Vertigo 12 Side of The Road / Submission (Sex Pistols cover snippet) 13 The Delaney 14 Never Never 15 “The Bard of Belfast rap” (featuring Queens of Noize???) 16 I Get Along (stage invasion) 17 What A Waster (Carlos on Drums w/ Gary Dancing…) 18 Outro
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