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 good gig this one, the last US gig for Mister PD….The video surfaced back in 2015, but this is the first time the audio is available in mp3…unfortunately the sound is a bit overblown probably due to how loud the gig was and how close to the stage the recorder was.
Nice Eye witness account from “Americans4Pete” & an brief NME article also…
01 Horrorshow 02 Up the Bracket 03 Vertigo 04 What a Waster 05 Don’t Look Back Into the Sun 06 Mayday 07 The Delaney 08 Death on the Stairs 09 Boys in the Band 10 Time for Heroes 11 Arbeit Macht Frei 12 Begging 13 Instrumental Jam…(Campaign of Hate) 14 The Man Who Would Be King 15 The Good Old Days 16 Skag & Bone Man 17 I Get Along 18 outro
Life changing gig. We didn’t even know who they were. That was our local and we just happened to be in there drinking, and it wasn’t sold out so the guy let us stay without paying the cover. Pete kept kicking over the mic stand and this incredibly angry employee had to keep going out and setting it back up. At one point it looked like he was just going to haul off and deck Pete. So what does Pete do? Kicks it over again. Imagine hearing Time For Heroes and Death On The Stairs and the like for the first time. Live. Magical.
PS: Pete found out after the gig that “The Hood” in Philly is not like “council estates” in London. You can’t just stroll in there with a pork pie hat on asking for drugs. Luckily, he survived 🙂
Thanks for the upload. Great memories. One of only a handful of Pete gigs in the States.”
“We went out front where they were hanging out and smoking to let them know how great we thought they were. We felt kind of bad because there were about 30 people who came out to see them and they seemed kind of bummed about it during the show. It was Carl, John, Gary, a manager, and a roadie. They were real nice. A bit disparaging about Philly for sure (“A bit different than New York, innit?”) They were trying to tell us about some television show they had just played, and we were amazed to realize they were talking about David Letterman. We didn’t know how big they were in England or that they were on Rough Trade or anything, so it was strange to us that this ragtag bunch had just taped Letterman and didn’t seem to know or care how huge an occasion that should be. Then the roadie got a call on his burner phone. A distress call from Peter, who had gone off wandering into the badlands in his straw hat and plastic jacket looking for a bit of what he fancied. We were like, “Uh oh, not good.” My friend actually went with the roadie to go rescue him. I think they had to hand out some money just to get off the block. But he was happy as a lark when they got him back. Dancing around. Showing off the Libs ink. “Your council estates are dire here, mate!” Then they were off in their van. Little did we know that was the last time Pete would ever play the USA.”
Check Out This Unseen Footage Of An Entire, Intimate 2003 Libertines Gig
By Lisa Wright – NME – 12th August 2015
Anyone familiar with the chequered history of The Libertines will know that 2003 was the most rollercoaster year of them all.
On one hand, you had an increasingly fervent fan base, a (brilliant) second album in the pipeline and the success of ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’. On the other you had a stint in prison (after Pete Doherty burgled Carl Barât’s flat), the increasing spectre of drugs and the beginnings of what would result in their demise the following year.
The latter meant that gigs with both Pete and Carl in attendance were decreasing by the month, but the former meant that the ones where they did both show up were nothing short of electric.
Washington filmmaker Matthew Levin caught one of these gigs on camera and – after unearthing it 12 years later – has made footage of the entire show available to stream. Filmed at the end of the band’s US tour on May 5, 2003 at Philadelphia’s North Star Bar, it’s as up-close and personal as they come. So as the band return to action with comeback album ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’, this is an exciting reminder of why we cared so much in the first place.
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.
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