Sargo/DPT exhibition

From Dirty Pretty Things official site:

Dirty Pretty Things will play an acoustic set this Tuesday, 4th September, to launch an exhibition of photos of the band taken by legendary photographer, Roger Sargent. This will be the band's final live appearance in the UK prior to their departure to record album #2 in LA.
The exhibition, 'Come Closer: Dirty Pretty Things as seen by Roger Sargent', will be held at The Boogaloo in Highgate, London from 4th September for one month. Prints will be available to purchase in signed limited quantities of 5 per print.

Unreleased Beatles cover surfaces

I think many of us still remember the drunken and fucked-up version of the Beatles' "8 Days a Week" played by Carl and Anthony Rossomando at the infamous post-gig Castlewhite Sessions in Cork in February 2006 (yeah, the "sexual affairs" gig, that's it!).

Now it seems an official version of the song, credited to the Libertines, does exist.

And you can download it here. (thanks to Niali from the libertines.org.uk forum).

Recorded in 2003 during the 'Don't Look Back Into The Sun' sessions with Bernard Butler producing, the song features Carl Barat on vocals, but Pete Doherty does not feature.

The cover was leaked online by a music industry figure who works in licensing/publishing (well, surely not McFee).

Looking back into the sun - Today in Libertines history

30 August 2004: it was Monday and, as it usually happens in UK, a bunch of new records were released. One of them was "The Libertines", the second (and last, at least for the moment) album of the band.

"It's almost like they've come into themselves, and the living that they've done since last time has all gone into this. You know what I mean? And the subtext of the record is really great as well. It reaches you, it reaches you in the right place. It touches you. It's touching. It's beautiful really."(Mick Jones, producer)

"All songs are written by the Libertines and that's all anyone need know. They are all born out all the Libertines did and what they'll do next" (Carl Barat, Libertines guitar player).

"I love Pete, Carl and John equally and as far as I’m concerned we’re all the sum of our parts.” (Gary Powell, Libertines drummer).

"Such is the overwhelming solipsism of the album, so heavy the weight of autobiography hanging over it, that listening is a curiously mutable experience". (Maddy Costa, The Guardian)

"Pete went into renab three times during the recording of the second album but within that and within the madness he knew what he was doing" (James Endeacott, Rough Trade executive).

"We wouldn't have stuck together and recorded that album if it hadn't been for Mick [Jones]" (Pete Doherty, Libertines guitar player).

"A masterpiece of life-changing rock'n'roll" (Anthony Thornton, Libertines biographer and NME writer)

"Somebody had a number for someone to come down and literally in the middle of the recording like every minute Carl would stop and go, Have you got that number? I could really do with some coke, man! And then Pete came up to the mic and said, Would someone get my fucking guitarist some cocaine?!?" (Roger Sargent, photographer and author of the album cover photo).

"It was a pretty good experience for everybody" (Geoff Travis, Rough Trade boss).

"I don't think I was particularly excessive during that album. Occasionally I'd come in and just sleep" (Pete Doherty).

"The Libertines was a darker, more introspective beast than its predecessor, containing an all-pervading sense of paranoia that even jauntier numbers like Don't Be Shy couldn't alleviate". (Pete Welsh, author of "Kids in the riot" and friend).

"There's always been that sense of collapse with us, although this album was a struggle to do. We knew when we were doing it that there were situations around the actual work that were making things difficult" (Carl Barat).

"Slightly less tuneful than its predecessor, The Libertines makes Doherty's dramas seem less a roadblock than a crucial ingredient; no band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it" (Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone)

"I didn't even notice just how close to the bone this album was until we started doing interviews" (Gary Powell).

"It really is a miracle that our new album got finished" (Carl Barat).

Yeti tonight at Proud

Today we've had already Peter, Carl and Gary, so whassup with John?

This:

Yeti
29 ago 2007, 20.00 The Gin House, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London, LONDON, London and South East NW1 8AHCosto : 6
This will be the only UK show before the band leaves for Japan. Support from Beestings and Daddy Long Legs. Tickets are available now here.

According to the band "The set will be a mix of old and new. New tracks include Don't Say Done If..., Song For Mary Jane, Can't Pretend, Don't Go Back To The One You Love plus more".

Dirty Pretty Things at Pentonville Prison1

Something more to be delivered

Babyshambles have revealed the b-sides for their forthcoming single, ‘Delivery' (above is the new alleged cover- EEEEEK!!!) which is out on September 17th. The first single to be taken off the band's new album, ‘Shotter's Nation,’ will be available on two special CD editions as well as 7” vinyl. The first CD will be backed with a special version of ‘I Wish’ – which originally appeared on last year’s, ‘The Blinding’ EP – with guitarist Mick Whitnall on vocals and new track, ‘Stone Me.’

The second CD will feature new song, ‘A Day Out In New Brighton,’ while the 7” vinyl will be backed with another new song, ‘Torn'.

Shotter's Nation will be released (in UK) on October 1st.

A few stories in the press

Great emphasis in the press today on the DPT's last night gig at Pentonville Prison. Of all the articles I've read I chose this (from Times online) as the best.

For setlist maniacs, here's the stuff:

Chinese Dogs, Gentry Cove, Wondering, Doctors And Dealers, Deadwood, Come Closer, Blood Thirsty Bastards, You Fucking Love It, Plastic Hearts, The Enemy, Gin And Milk, Bang Bang You're Dead.

We know we ain't gonna see these boys around for quite a long time don't we? So good luck guys and come back with something stunning.

Another bunch of articles today focussed on Peter's alleged "no-show" at Get Loaded in the Park. Honestly I didn't think for one second he was going to turn up at all, so I took my time to reach Clapham Common and I wasn't let down by his absence, but I think this latest episode was mainly due to a communication breakdown more than anything else, because Peter's appearance was still in the rumormill when the Festival started. The breaking (?) news is that the man is back to rehab. So, good luck to him too.