Peter Doherty - Music when the lights go out

Last night in Berlin. A very good quality video, thanks to Elajonesy.

Jamie Fullerton blogs on Peter's new videos

From NME blogs:

Long before Little Boots started filling YouTube with bedroom melodies, a certain Mr. Peter Doherty was regularly hurling up home vids of his bizarre existence for all to see, comment on and rate.
Blair Witch-shaky, cobbled together by quick afternoon Mac edits in tru 'Shamblin' ramshackle style, they offered an intriguing insight into Pete's Lord-of-the-manor life in his Wiltshire pile.
Most were sketchy beginnings of new acoustic songs accompanied by images of his army of kittens, various model types lounging around his bedroom quarters in states of advance undress and (my favourite) an amateur sleuth drama starring Pete and two foreign models on a quest to recover a chicken-shaped glass bong.
Sadly, Pete recently dragged them all into the desktop trash bin, leaving his YouTube account as barren the crowd at Keane's T In The Park headline slot.
But yesterday (August 6) and today (7) Pete rebooted, posting up nine new efforts. Kittens chasing lamp-shades, a topless Pete strumming away on the battered acoustic, zooming in on scrawled-on diary entries – we're getting a looksy through Pete's key hole again.
Aside from old Libs song 'What Katy Did' all feature versions of new efforts – seemingly titled 'Raise The Kaboose', 'Cheap Shot' and 'Stranger In My Own Skin'. We're hardly dealing with a 'Freewheeling Bob Dylan'-matching collection of ditties yet, but as newly-birthed sketches of new Pete material, they're worth a listen.

Jamie also posted this message to FDW: "Hi all, please spare me the NME cynicism for a second - heads up for a new interview coming in the mag soon, just spoke to Peter on the phone from Belgium, interview going in V Festival preview issue with new pics we're hopefully nailing this weekend - he sounded in tip top form, easily one of my favourite Peter interviews, keep an eye out for it later this month. Cheers. JF.x"

Peter on a youtube roll

The man woke up early today, and started uploading home made videos on his youtube channel.

The quality of the clips is still a bit questionable but it's great to see this sudden surge of creativity. Keep checking the channel cause it looks like it's going to be a busy day in Wiltshire.

Peter in Belgium

Rave reviews are following Peter's appearance at the Lorekse Festival in Belgium last night. "Peter played for half an hour" says Knack.be "with the best from his last album (Salome and the great The Last of the English Roses) Babyshambles (The Lost Art of Murder) and the Libertines (Music When The Lights Go Out and the wonderful Can't Stand Me Now) showing what a gifted songwriter he is".

"I thought it was a very nice little festival" Niki wrote to FDW "Crowd was pretty relaxed, you could move easily, there was loads of space at the front, and the audience was reacting pretty well. Pete looked in great form and joked a bit".

Two Neil Young citations ("Out on a Weekend" and "The Needle and Damage Done") and funny banter with the crowd ("Everyone who has drugs on them, please think twice about using them. Leave them to me, and I'll dispose of them properly") completed the show.

Niki also shot a handful of beautiful videos (follow the link to his youtube channel).

Setlist by Dillyboys:

Up the Bracket, Tell the King, East of Eden, Dilly Boys, Fuck Forever, Delivery, Killamangiro, Music when the lights go out, Can't stand me now, Suicide in the Trenches, What a Waster, Time for Heroes, A cover of The Specials, Don't look back into the sun, Arcady, Ballad of Grimaldi, Last of the english roses, 1939 Returning, Love reign over me, Beg Steal or Borrow, Lost art of Murder, Salome, Needle and Damage done.

Summer gossip

We need a bit of relax every now and then don't we.

1. Peter is in Brussels, waiting to play at the Lokersee Festival. Babybear wrote: "What A Lovely Day It Is Here In Brussels! Lovely weather". Peter is on at 23.45, after The Hickey Underworld and Manic Street Preachers. For the record, the DJ set will be by The Hindu Nights, i.e. Paul Gallagher, Phil Smith... and guests (OMG reunionz innit).

2. The Ficek is launching his new EP tonight in a secret location (people got texted, so no way I can tell you). "Tonight is accoustic," he twittered "so no amps etc, if you come make sure you shut your mouths or people will get angry and hurt you probably". Support is Edward Elgar. Afterparty at Ogidans. "be there from 10.30-ish,voluntary contributions if your not banded up. will play a few ding dongs".

3. The lovely Drusillo (it's been a while, love, innit) did launch something else last Sunday, i.e. (hear hear) Lee Mavers' borfday party! Funktastic night with many guests like Carlos Baratos, Joe Lean and the wonderful Ladyhawke. They all played at some point (videos will surface one day).

4. Speaking of Carlito, it seems the Glasgow gig of 8 August is not going to happen because Barat was not even booked in the first place.

Somebody pulled a General then.

Kidding.

Innit.

Gigsters

PETER

• Tuesday Aug 4 - Lokerse Feesten LOKEREN, Belgium - h. 23.45
• Friday Aug 7 - Berlinfestival, Berlin, Germany - Main Stage, from 00.30 to 1.30
• Saturday Aug 8 - Les Nuits Secretes at Centre-Ville, Aulnoye Aymeries, France - La Grande Scene, h. 21.00

Warning: Carl Barat's gig at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow for The Sound of Summer (scheduled on Aug 8) is very very very likely to have been cancelled (see also QMU's site).

In the meantime, thanks to Tor Johan for signalling this photo gallery showing Peter hanging around by the fire after his gig at Storas in Norway (last Saturday).

Peter Spielberg is back!

Apparently the man has re-opened his youtube channel, re-christened it "1waytikt2tickletown" and put up his first effort. Still a bit on the dark (and short) side but impressive. Enjoy!