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If you know of any I’ve missed, please let me know! New additions will be added in bold.

18/2/22 - The Libertines at the O2 Academy, Leicester

19/2/22 - The Libertines at Cardiff Uni Great Hall

21/2/22 - The Libertines at Nottingham Rock City

22/2/22 - The Libertines at the O2 Academy, Sheffield

24/2/22 - The Libertines at the O2 Academy, Bristol

25/2/22 - The Libertines at Kentish Town Forum

26/2/22 - The Libertines at Kentish Town Forum

12/3/22 - Peter at Bordeaux Rock Festival, Salle du Grand Parc, Bordeaux

24/3/22 - Dirty Pretty Things at the Electric Ballroom, Camden

25/3/22 - The Libertines at Estéreo Picnic Festival, Bogota, Colombia

¼/22 - The Libertines at Tecate Pa'l Norte festival, Monterrey, Mexico

8/4/22 - Peter at Festival Mythos, Cabaret Botanique, Rennes, Brittany

5/5/22 - Peter at Le Trianon, Paris

6/5/22 - Peter at Carlswerk Victoria, Koln

7/5/22 - Peter at Metropol, Berlin

16/5/22 - Peter at the Olympia, Liverpool

18/5/22 - Peter at Aberdeen Lemon Tree

20/5/22 - Peter at Cambridge Junction

4/6/22 - The Libertines at One Big Summer festival, Plymouth

11/6/22 - The Libertines at Rock n Roll Circus, Newcastle Town Moor

1/7/22 - The Libertines at Castlefield Bowl, Manchester

7-9/7/22 - The Libertines at Pohoda festival, Trencin airport, Slovakia

22/7/22 - The Libertines at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire

5/8/22 - The Libertines at Bute Park, Cardiff

6/8/22 - The Libertines at Bingley Weekender

8/8/22 - The Libertines at the O2 Academy, Edinburgh

18/8/22 - The Libertines at Motocultor Festival, Sant-Nolff, Brittany, France

20/8/22 - The Libertines at Summer Sonic, Tokyo

21/8/22 - The Libertines at Summer Sonic, Osaka

28/8/22 - The Libertines at Victorious Festival, Portsmouth

13/10/22 - Peter at Club Morse, St Petersburg, Russia

14/10/22 - Peter at Glavclub, Moscow, Russia

Peter writing about the early days living at Delaney Mansions (the flat where Carl apparently “lived in a cage”) and then moving to the Camden basement they lived in briefly.

          the time after long before

layu'bouts and n'rdoooowellawella uhs or least ways that was how we were mostly wantly to appear to the neighbours to not be. I mean..clearly they were a hard working ‘proffessional couple’ of some description… our crumbling doss house of 20 tiny rooms most having three 4 5 mainly young and foreign tenants… it was a similar in size to theirs..but it was just the 2 of them in their gaff The two of them..and her belly. soon to be the three of them.

summers singing type of day. Biggles belting out the newly composed ‘Narcissist’ in the shit back garden. rent day, but noone was panicking because it had been such a terrible few days that we were actually looking forward to some light relief in the form of our Greek landlord and his little crew steaming in and flexing for the dosh. he had of course entered the story a few months before as a benevolent saviour.. when no other sod in the entire north london swampland would touch us with a bargepole let alone let us share a mattress in their cupboard topandtail for 60£ each a week. very soon (each friday actually) he re-emerged from stage left (the road adjacent to Holloway ladies prison) as a kind of would-be Get Carter(bubble version) he would literally turn blue and hover above the horrible carpets in his house when we fished around for sellotaped together tenners and photocopied notes or whatever we could thinkup. 'ooooooout!’ he would scream 'fucking bums’ We actually served a valuable purpose.. every other tennant would pay on time after the racket he made in our gaff. Although we always showed him poetry, ideas for band names and new melodies.. I do believe he had a little faith in us.

sometimes his wife and daughters came and sat and watched his hovering and listened to the sessions. Clapping their fat hands in time. Better timing than our drummer at the time – a girl who lived upstairs and worked as a pro on the Holloway road. Noshville for Biggles and the others. She didnt like me. said I had no timing. Fucking cheek..how’s THIS for timing:

The pregnant professionals had bought a huge town house furth er down towards the fashionable end of Camden Road. and away from the smelly old slumolopodos and the strangely quiet and eerie prison that loomed.squatish on the horizon / across the road. They came right out and said they would help us if we helped them. we looked like lads with potential. “Just practise more,” said the preggers irish woman. “we never hear you practise for more than a few drunken minutes each morning”

They needed our help lugging all their furniture and tat downto their posh new house, and also…drum roll (looped from garage band, not from SashaSlasher the skin basher and bilo lasher) …needed us to live in the basement and be caretakers until they could move in properly which could be up to 6 months.. Life was about to change, and mostly for the better. There was a tragic downside o course..

There was a lot of fucking furniture.

Kitchen in 236 'tears & tears in proud                                          fathers coat’

I’m not sure about “biggest influence”, but there are a lot of them. i’ll try to tell you what i know… 

Of course as you said it’s Wilfred Owen (Anthem for Doomed Youth) ( and Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the trenches ) but also many more poets and writers. William Blake (He used term “Albion” many times, + Peter reads his poems in this documentary which we should not be talking about)

Oscar Wilde  (Salome, Broken Love Song, Narcissist)Rudyard Kipling (Gunga din +  The Man Who Would Be King)

+ also Arthur Rimbaud , Charles Baudelaire , Lord Byron , Jean Cocteau

Love On The Dole takes its name from the novel  by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in the north of England during the depression of the 1930s. 

The title of  The Lust of the Libertines was taken from the novel with the same name by Marquis de Sade.Robert Graves ( The Last Post on the Bugle vs The Last Post  by Graves)

+ Babyshambles’ songs:  

References to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevensonin  Do You Know Me I Don’t Think So.

A’rebours was inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel with the same name from  1884.

Thomas De Quincey’s essay from 1827 On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Artsvs Lost Art Of Murder (which also could contains a  reference to Orwell’s  Decline of the English Murder )

Emily Dickinson: “I took one draught of life, I’ll tell you what I paid, Precisely an existence, The market Price, They said”, vs Doherty’s  At The Flophouse: “I took one draught of life. Paid only the market price”. There is also Emily’s portrait in the  “Broken Love Song” video. 

Brighton Rock  by Graham Greene was quoted in Love You But You’re Green and unreleased song Colly Kibber.Peter told in one interview, that there is a quote from The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp in Sweet By and By.

Also i should add few facts about TV too.

“What became of the Likely Lads” contains a  reference to the tvshow “The Likely Lads”  from ‘60. Sequel from ‘70 was called “Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?” and there was a song with such lines in it: (sounds familiar, isnt it)Oh whatever happened to you? Oh whatever happened to me?What became of the people we used to be? Tomorrow’s almost over. Today went rather fast. It’s the only thing to look forward to – The past.

And of course Tony Hancock.  “Up The Bracket” line is from his show («Are you looking for a punch up the bracket? I’ll give you a punch up the bracket»),  Babyshambles’ tour in 2007 “Stone Me, What a Life!”.Lady Don’t Fall Backwards is a fiction novel from  «Missing Page» episode of  “Hancock’s Half Hour”.

Re: ‘A quiet week in the country’ October 24 2003, 10:59 PM

This is a bit of me I thought, choosing the coldest room in Mr Magees big old stone house in the black hills. A boingy old brass rust bed and victoriana arcady, reading couch, bandylegged desk. We set up a little studio with the bilo recorder and mimi amps in the echoey ‘library’ room. Some fine new compositions being sown and reaped in the harvest of souls, then explosions and bloodshed and oh me lonely horrors as Alan whisks the delerious biggles off to hospital, then the eye hospital. sex symbol in an eye patch? buccaneers indeed. Spent the day rolling in and out of undressed dreams, watching jesusandmarychain video and listening to Olucky man soundtrack, newyorkdolls, morrissey, magicandmedicine, thewho, dylan, roomonfire, waiting for them to come back from the operation screamadelica now as I stare out into pitcher full of blackness, not a light save for the murky stars. The three of us dined together again tonight. Carl very spun out, theanaesthetic wearing off I seen doom in his face. I went upstairs after and sat on his bed and we were laughing about things afore too long. I told him he was my best friend and I care for him so much, am worried about him, and love him. He held me and said ‘Its been a long time since you said that’ I can hear him now, brightening up, joking with Alan, we’re all gonna watch a peter sellers film I think, or the wicker man, there is no time here. I’m gonna tell you some private things cause you can keep secrets, you are the internet. you know somehow, I’m scared for the lot. all or nowtSomething unavoidable is at my door and I have to answer soon. Old rage was never smothered by pleasant attentions and flatterring gesture, its unholy and its still in his hearts belly. Imagine a terrible sensation, memory jolted, in awe and disgusted someone hurting themself so badly life is mocked, the incurable ache, the devestation. someone sends me a text, they are wrong when they write: ‘peter you are an evil, manipulative jealous bastard. You’ve hurt carl one too many times’ I think its from carls girlfriend, who I once…. is that what it was all about? that and totpops and the door kick down theft and his sister and songwriting credits ah cruel fates, do you think I dont want him to be happy, fuck you anonymous mug, nogood fucking tart.. no.. it was the whiskey..always the whisky, and the bathroom mirror and oh sweet jesus Alan Magee “oh great, I’ve taken on a band witha genius singwriter witha penchant for crack and a sex symbol who likes to beat himself up” shhhhhhh alls well that ends well

October 25 2003, 12:25 AM

The Libertines’ year has been scarred by crack, prison and burglary, so can they put their differences aside and enjoy an Albion Xmas together? Perhaps-if Carl’s dad doesn’t kill Pete first.

Christmas. A time of love, forgiveness and goodwill to all men. This year, nowhere in rock n roll have these principles been stretched further than in The Libertines. First there was the matter of Carl Barat throwing Pete Doherty out of the band. Then Pete burgled the flat Carl shared with his sister, thanks to a rampaging crack and heroin habit, and got six months in prison (reduced to two on appeal). All looked black until Pete was released. There to meet him at the prison gates was Carl, who welcomed him back into the band after a hugely touching reconciliation.

Since then, apart from a somewhat mysterious incident in which Carl got his face bashed in, the good ship Albion has sailed through calmer waters. The Libertines are currently recording their second album, including forthcoming single The Likely Lads, with ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. And here they all are together in an east London photo studio, singing along to Blondie and Billie Holiday, dressed as Dickensian gentlemen (apart from Pete, an urchin) and caning the brandy and beers.

There are still problems-Pete’s been disowned by his father and “issues” around the burglary haven’t entirely gone away-but there’s something heartwarming about the way The Libertines have stuck together, keeping the romance alive in the bleakest of circumstances. It’s a story Dickens himself would have tipped his hat to, a story of adventure and friendship, London and crime. A story of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future.

NME: have you ever read Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol?

Carl: “Yeah!”

Pete: “The other night I was lying in bed and the radio came on by itself because the electricity ran out but then I discovered ‘emergency’, and then when the radio came back on it was Hard Times, the fourth episode”.

Carl: “I was flat on my back-I suffered a grievous injury-and I bought the DVD of Great Expectations. About the story of young Pip, and how through hardship and poverty but with virtue of heart, he managed to overcome the most tiresome, irksome and vile of obstacles”.

What are your childhood memories of Christmas?

John Hassall: “Working in a glue factory at the age of five.”

Carl: “John, that’s not true, is it?”

John: “No. Dickens worked in a glue factory, actually.”

Carl: “Well you’re not Dickens, are you? The sideburns-that’s where it ends. You worked for the post office, you did one day, you got sacked.”

Pete: “My grandad Percy-I remember him sat in his paper hat. He was the oldest taxi driver in Liverpool when he died and I remember he always used to say, “Merry Christmas and an apple in your ear.” I used to think that was great. (Wistfully) He’d have been really proud, actually.”

Gary Powell: “We call Christmas Festivus, and after Christmas dinner everybody gets a little bit drunk and everybody walks around a pole in the living room until they get dizzy. And then they rip the shit out of each other and sit down.”

Pete: “It’s the big Gary Powell annual family fight.”

Carl: “It doesn’t matter what they put on the tree, they just beat the cack out of each other.”

What’s the best present you’ve ever received?

Pete: “I think when I was about 12 and I got a pair of LA Gears. My uncle Arthur said to me, “You know, kids in LA on the street get stabbed for these trainers.”

Carl: “Because your uncle Arthur stabbed them-that’s how you got them. Santa used to bring me a bottle of Smirnoff Mule.”

NME: What, when you were a child?

Carl: “Yeah, when it first came out. I told my dad, “That’s what I want”, and he bought it for me.” Rest of the Band: “Awwww!”

Carl: “I was a bit gutted about my stocking, though-you’d always get oranges and dodgy nuts.”

Pete: “About five or six years ago, my dad bought me a cassette called The Beatles Live At The BBC. I’ve played that tape ‘til it was worn out…”

Gary: (Drily) “My mum and dad bought me Michael Jackson’s Thriller. What a surprise that was.”

Pete: “And then they danced round the pole a bit more!”

Did you believe in Santa Claus as a child?

Gary: “I lost my faith in Christmas when I was about 12 years old. I went downstairs at 12 o’clock to open up my presents at my nan’s house…”

John: “And you found Santa Claus giving Mrs Claus one over the…”

Carl: (Shouting) “No he didn’t!”

Gary: “I opened one present and my gran came downstairs and found me. I ran back upstairs and she came upstairs with a belt and beat the crap out of me.”

Pete: “Awww…Is that true? I always wanted a remote-controlled car or a computer or something. I’d see big boxes and it would always turn out to be a load of jigsaws.”

Carl: “I think we’ve all suffered that one.”

Gary: “But I never really lost my faith in Christmas because we always ended up having a good time.”

Were you ever in a Nativity play?

John: “I was the angel Gabriel.”

Carl: “I was a spy. I was one of Herod’s spies.”

Pete: “Did you see that film on telly last night, Only Giffers Say No?”

Carl: (Not falling for it) “What, your film was on telly? Get out of it!”

Pete: “We did Emile And The Detectives at school.”

Carl: “For fuck’s sake! No you didn’t!”

Pete: “Our teacher was an ex policeman. He thought it’d be really funny.”

What’s your favorite Christmas carol?

Pete: “Oh, that French one, Carol Debois, she’s lovely.”

Gary: “Mine is (sings) Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile lost its wheel, then the Joker got away, hey!”

Pete: “My favorite Christmas carol is And did those feet/In ancient times..”

NME: “That’s ‘Jerusalem,’ not strictly a carol.”

Carl: “This one is: (Warbles) While sheperds watched their flocks by night/All watching ITV…”

All: “The angel of the Lord come down/And switched to the BBC…”

Pete: “What’s your favorite carol then?”

NME: “We like “The First Noel”.

All launch into lusty singing: “The first Noel, the angel did say…” (laughter as they realize that’s the only line they know).

John: “I do like To Be A Pilgrim but it’s not a Christmas carol.”

Carl: “John’s first avowed intent/To be a pillock…”

Was there one thing you’d always watch on TV at Christmas?

Pete: “It was always the Only Fools and Horses Christmas special and a turkey sandwich.”

Carl: “James Bond!”

Pete: “Trying to get the fucking family pen not to leak.”

Ever eat or drink so much you were sick?

Carl: “I think I"ve got a funny constitution. No matter how much I eat or drink, I’m very seldom sick. I keep it all in. Some people would say that’s a valiant thing. (Abruptly) Who’s seen Lolita with Peter Sellers?”

Pete: “I’ve seen it. At the beginning he’s in a room full of dead bodies…”

Carl: “No he’s not.”

Pete: “It’s like Christmas round at your house. Carlos lying on the floor going, “I’m never ill.”

Have you ever had a white Christmas?

Carl: “You dirty bugger.”

Pete: (Sings) “Enoch’s dreaming of a White Christmas…” (A joke from an episode of Steptoe & Son about racist MP Enoch Powell-Sitcom Ed)

Carl: “Just like the ones he used to know/When he lived in Finland…”

Have you ever built a snowman?

Carl: “OF course I have.”

John: “It doesn’t snow at Christmas anymore. It’s global warming.”

Pete: (Snatching NME’s questions): “Did I ever go to midnight mass? Yeah, I used to go with my mum and cry.”

Carl: “I used to go with your mum and cry as well.”

Pete: “Where will you be on December 25? I’ll be in Whitechapel, alone.”

NME: “Really? Why?”

Carl: “No he won’t! He’s going home to face the music!”

Pete: “I’m not. My family’s disowned me. My dad says I’m a thief and a junkie.”

Carl: “Yeah, and what you do is you go and you reclaim them. Because you’re family. Because you understand how important family is. ‘Cos we’re brothers, your father’s your father, your mother’s your mother and you’ll go and you’ll bite the biscuit. Unless of course you’re in any physical danger, but we can suss that out beforehand.”

Pete: (Softly) “Figgy pudding.”

Carl: “Figgy pudding indeed. That’s what you’ll get. But don’t stay in Whitechapel. Don’t be a booner.”

Pete: “I"m perfectly happy in Whitechapel!”

Carl: “No you’re not! Pete! Re-embrace!”

Pete: “Look, even at the best of times it’s not particularly happy being at home.”

Gary: “Come with ours and celebrate Festivus! A bit of spinning round the pole…”

Carl: “I’ve got to do the 25th at my dad’s because I always have done. I would invite you round, but you burgled my flat so my dad probably wants to kill you, and you’ve not apologized to my sister…”

Pete: “I did apologize to your sister. I left a present on the doorstep. And I didn’t burgle your flat. You’d all gone off to Japan without me even knowing.”

Carl: (Slightly irate) “Pete, this isn’t Pete’s story time, is it?”

Pete: “I saw the storage containers outside the flat, the door was off the hinges anyway…”

John: (Skillfully changing the subject) “We had a Christmas dinner round your house, remember?”

Pete: “Oh yeah! That was a happy Christmas! We all wore yellow suits and danced to Django Reinhardt. We’ll have an Arcadian Christmas-figgy pudding and eternity.”

Carl, where will you be this Christmas?

Carl: “I shall be in Watership Down. That’s where my mum lives. The cat brings in rabbits from time to time. I saw that, the cat got frisbeed last year by a fucking juggernaut.”

Pete: “I used to go there and meet his mum…”

Carl: “Er, with me.”

Pete: “…and he used to take me into the wild woods.”

Carl: “I used to take him to Arcadia and back.”

Pete: “It was pitch black. And I’d see (Greek God) Pan.”

Carl: “He saw Pan and he came running with his tail between his legs. We didn’t even know he had a tail ‘til then. Since then he’s kept it very short.”

NME: “Are you more of a pagan, then, Pete?”

Carl: “He doesn’t like to put in a bracket-in this case down the bracket.”

NME: “How about a panthesist?”

Carl: “Panthesist? Pig-ist.”

Pete: (Eyeing John’s trucker cap) “What’s the deal with the Beatings hat, John?”

Carl: “That’s mine! I got that in America.”

John: “They’re supporting us.”

Pete: “Thing is, I asked this band The Unstrung to support us.”

Carl: “It’s a bummer they can’t then, innit? What a downer! Biggles, we’ve got loads of fucking bands! You’ve chosen shitloads! He’s got Wolfman And The Unhealthies or whatever they’re called.”

Pete: “They’re called the Side-Effects.”

What do you want for Christmas this year?

Carl: “His two front teeth.”

Gary: “I want an extra two inches.”

John: “I’d like some festive love.”

Carl: (floridly) “I want warmth, clarity, love, stimulation and art.”

Pete: “I’d like to pull a cracker.”

Carl: “I’d like eternal life.”

Pete: “I"d like an all-in-one TV and video. (Apropos of nothing) I saw Welsh Pete last night and he said, ‘(Welsh accent) I was round at Sadie Frost’s house and Liam Gallagher was there and I put on ‘Don’t Look Back Into the Sun’ and he stood up and said, (Manc accent) ‘Hey man, get the fuckin’ burglars off the stereo’ (Welsh accent) and I said to him ‘These boys are the future, sit down!’ and he was quiet.’ Anyway, an all-in-one TV and video and I’d like an old suit, early 60’s Italian, three buttons, black.”

Carl: “He means double breasted, tails vented and a three-quarter-length dee-dee-dee. Now, for me I will have an Ealing Comedies Classics collection of DVDs, volumes one and two, The Wicker Man…”

Pete: “Westway To The World (clash film), ‘cos I’ve lost that.”

Carl: “I’ve got Westway To The World inscribed by Mick Jones. It says, ‘Dear Carl, it’s about greatness. Love and admiration, Mick Jones.”

If you had a free choice and money was no object, where and with whom would you spend Christmas?

John: “I’d like to spend it with Roy Wood from The Move.”

Carl: “I"d like to spend it with Oscar Wilde in the Dordogne.”

Pete: “I’d like to spend it with the lead singer of The Bandits. We’d pull crackers and comfort each other.”

NME: “Why, what’s wrong with him?”

Pete: “He sprained his ankle.”

Gary: “I"d spend it with Halle Berry, anywhere.”

Pete, will you be thinking about your mates in prison over Christmas?

Pete: “He hasn’t got any mates in prison! They all hated him!”

Pete: “Shush. Of course I will, yeah. I’ve been writing to a few of them and I’ve been sending them a few little Christmas gifts…”

John: “A cake with a chisel in it.”

Pete: “Inside the spine of a magazine. Yeah, I’m thinking of ‘em. As they queue up for congealed rice and genetically modified turkey.”

Have you got any interest in what’s Christmas Number One this year?

Pete: “Well, we had a Christmas song.”

All: (Singing) “The bottom of the bottle/so drink your drink…Sing me a song about the boy who went to war…”

Pete: “Cindy Lauper’s not a pauper…”

Carl: “Bobby Dylan’s not a villain…”

All: “So drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink and be merry/For tomorrow we die…”

What did you get each other for Christmas last year?

Carl: “Well, it didn’t come ‘til June, but it was probably a fucking Rizla with a dead wasp in it.”

Gary: “I got a kite.”

Pete: “I got kicked out of the band.”

NME: “What, for Christmas?”

Pete: “It was a late surprise.”

Carl: “Christmas boot for the Pigman. After he scoffed all our truffles. We were gutted.”

Pete: “You have to laugh, otherwise you smack him in the face.”

Carl: “Oi! Fucking hell! It’s supposed to be Christmas! Why can’t you be nice, man, you’re my friend for fuck’s sake.”

Pete: “You said I got you a wasp!”

Carl: “You did get me a wasp!”

Pete: “You’ve gone delirious.”

Do you think the relationship between Pete and Carl sums up the Christmas spirit of goodwill to all men?

Carl: “I’d fight to the death for the Pigman.”

Pete: “Yeah. Forgiveness and tolerance, that’s what I offer Carl.”

Carl: “I know Pigman, I know his intentions, and when they’re hard they’re hard and when they’re loving they’re loving. When I got back to my house and everything was scattered about the place-and obviously my heart sank into my scrotum-I knew that if Pigman wanted to do an evil job then he could damn well have done. But what Pigman done was a very confused and lovelorn job. There was anger there, but I’d never raise a finger against my dear friend. Ever.”

Pete: I sat on the edge of his bed and wept. There was a CD that his mum had made him, a bootleg CD with a picture of me and him on the front and it said ‘Well done’….(trails off)

Carl: Pete knew the importance of home and what it was to me to have a sacred place and a sanctum and an asylum and the fact that there was the possibility that my sister could have been there at the time shocked me. That’s what hit hard. But I never had anything but forgiveness and love and all I ever wanted was to put my arm round my friend. There was just this horrible, unapproachable, spiky, icy fucking glacier between us and it was very hard to get round.”

Why did you wear rosaries the day Pete came out of prison?

Carl: “Because Pigman got them in prison. Mine was wicked, it glowed in the dark.”

Pete: “I got them off a Portuguese pickpocket. He pickpocketed the chaplain.”

Carl: (changing the subject) “Listen, PO Box 117 Harley Street. That’s where to send Christmas cards to The Libertines.”

John: “Or death threats.”

Carl: “Because he got loads of letters and I didn’t get none!”

Have you got a Christmas message for the readers of NME?

John: (Philosophically) “Don’t celebrate the spirit of brotherhood and love just on Christmas Day. That’s how it should be every day.”

Pete: “Try to remember what it was that… just try and remember what it was. And don’t let go of it. Preserve it.”

Finally, where do you think you’ll be this time next Christmas?

Carl: “God only knows. And there’s the magic.”

Libertines Interview NME 122003

I could fill a book with these, but here’s a selection of favourite quotes after the cut, as requested by anon. 

Hello! Welcome aboard! I would actually recommend some reading and watching! Get a hold of the books Bound Together, Kids in Riot and Carl’s book, Threepenny Memoir. You can often find these really cheaply on eBay, or purchase e-books online. I also recommend the documentary There Are No Innocent Bystanders about the 2010 reunion, which you can watch for free on YouTube. There is also a wealth of information at Up The Albion, linked here, and while it’s no longer active, you can go through old interviews at the Live Journal site, linked here. The old French Dog Blog is good too and goes back years, though not as updated as it once was. I don’t recommend any existing Facebook groups to be honest, but the most active one would be Dreams From Arcadia, however the members are very strongly Peter focused and known for being negative towards Carl. The forums aren’t really all that active anymore but still exist here. In terms of on here, I suggest following: @suchasinistergame @carlbaratnews @travelling-tinker @jon-is-my-lord @memberofthejazzclub @moonshine-and-a-fennel-straw @doherty @lookthemoonissinging @albion-sails-on-course @stars-are-stars @libs-as-paintings @libertines-suggestions @liber-memes @azurfemme @opsyana @arcadian-beauty-cult

It’s here!

Here is the full transcription for all of the currently available Books Of Albion journals, written and published by Peter Doherty. It includes the physically published book and all the online journals available on upthealbion.com here. Two journals, Albion 47 and Fragility Of Openness, have been slightly rearranged from the upthealbion listed chronology, but all the rest remain in the same order.

so while i was making this list, i figured i would make it into a post in case anyone else was curious. peter does sooo many covers and a lot of these are live so pardon the quality of some of the videos but here’s a bunch of covers i found off the top of my head and with a little help from youtube (if i’ve used your video, let me know and i can credit you). LIBERTINES + PETER COVERS:

this is possibly the hardest question i ever recieved, but…

together with @stars-are-stars​ we tried to make a short-list of our favorite moments, and sorry, it’s gonna be a long post.

1. Bismarck!!!   link 

2. The Libertines In The Van link 

3.  Libertines Back Stage At NME Awards link 

4. “i need my biggles” link

5. “It’s like comparing an oak tree to a buffalo” link 

6. “Whose place is this?” link

7. Steve’s teeth story:

 Did you make much from busking?

Pete: “Then there was that time with Scarborough Steve [Bedlow, former singer/cohort]. It was about nine in the morning, a Sunday, and we’d run out of booze so he suggested we go out busking. He’d just had some of his teeth knocked out and had some temporary ones in. Falsies. We were all absolutely mangled by now and it was afternoon by the time we got down to the bridge. A boiling hot day. These Japanese girls walked past and said, ‘Do Twist and Shout!’, so we started singing: ‘Well shake it up baby now’, and when we got to ‘You know you look so good’, Steve’s tooth fell out.”

Carl: “It landed in an old Nescafé tin that we had as our pot. Then a car ran over it. Those girls were disgusted.”

8. Carpet burn story link (read the whole interview, it’s AMAZING)

Carl:Shut up John, just cos (mutters something inaudible to tape) Have you seen thecarpet burn on my knee? Where did I get it from? [Carpet burn. On his knee.Gah.]

John: Gary (repeats Gary many times whilst Carl brandishes his knee at Pippa)Carl: Gary? Was it? I thought it was Pete!John: I thought you had a fight with him?Carl: I can’t remember! I was too drunk..

9. Umbrella story from Kids in the riot:

“We’d been up all night, bombing around Tokyo, breaking into bars. We found this funny complex where the lifts went up to different bars and we found ourselves on this level where the bar was actually locked so we bust open the door and the pair of us stole bottles of gin and an umbrella.”

10. The Bucket Shop & Dream a Little Dream, The Libertines, 8/11/2000. Just watch. link 

11. Tandem-girl story from Kids in the riot:

It was just girls, girls, girls. In Munich, I went off on a tandem with this girl, back to her place. She insisted on playing Suede. So it’s afterwards and I want to go back to the venue because there’s this other girl and I wanna get to her before Carl does, but the tandem-girl locks me in the bathroom so I think, ‘Disaster,’ and actually end up booting the door through and she was screaming, screaming, screaming and she was naked as well. She’s had my clothes away, and I’ve had to jump back on her bike and race through the streets of Munich with just a hat on, back to the bus. And at the end of the night we had to leave Munich because we couldn’t stay and Carl was just snogging this girl endlessly and I’m stood there like fucking Hancock, when Sid James has pulled and he hasn’t. That was the girl that I’d cycled back for.”

12. “Vertical smile”. No comments :) 

“An encounter where he and fellow band member Carl Barat had sex with two fans in a disabled toilet after a gig on their 2003 Scandinavian tour was typical.“We met a right old punk who took me and Carl under his wings and took us to the sleaziest club, a proper rock ‘n’ roll dive with all these garage kids,” said Doherty.“I remember fuckng this girl in the toilets, on the floor, proper sort of sliding about the tiles and Carl came in with another girl, as cool as you like and bent her over the toilet.“Yeah, he had a smile on his face. And a vertical smile on his bum.”

13. Christmas interview(or “I used to take him to Arcadia and back“)  link

What’s your favorite Christmas carol?

Pete: “Oh, that French one, Carol Debois, she’s lovely.”

Gary: “Mine is (sings) Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robinlaid an egg, Batmobile lost its wheel, then the Joker got away, hey!”

Carl, where will you be this Christmas?

Carl: “I shall be in Watership Down. That’s where my mumlives. The cat brings in rabbits from time to time. I saw that, the cat gotfrisbeed last year by a fucking juggernaut.”

Pete: “I used to go there and meet his mum…”

Carl: “Er, with me.”

Pete: “…and he used to take me into the wild woods.”

Carl: “I used to take him to Arcadia and back.”

Pete: “It was pitch black. And I’d see (Greek God) Pan.”

Carl: “He saw Pan and he came running with his tailbetween his legs. We didn’t even know he had a tail ‘til then. Since then he’skept it very short.”

14. Libertines on Soccer A.M. 2015, or “Carl does it better”  link

15. ‘Carl’s not my lover. I’d rather toss off a frog’ 2015 link 

16. Playing in nursing homes link

17. Gary: Kanye West 2015 link

18. IBIZA 2015. Interview  photos

19. Carl punching Gary, Gary kissing Carl, Q awards 2015 link 

20. Embarassingly drunk Libs accepting NME award, 2016 link

21. Eskimo kisses at the british tv, 2016 link 

22. GAY ETC

23. and also this, as a bonus link

Also you can watch video compilations of different videos here:

carl barat and pete doherty (2001-2002)

carl barat and pete doherty (2003 - 2005)

Many Faces of Carl Barat

the real peter doherty