Dear acolytes of The Libs © The ‘Tines, the Four Mush-kateers, As folklore has it … back in 2002 your heroes crash, bang walloped a moribund and decrepit culture-scene and now in 2015 there back, making threats about how the…
As one of the biggest festivals in the UK, Reading is always going to come in for some stick from ‘festival purists’. The commercial nature and heavily sponsored image of the world famous event makes certain would-be festival goers claim…
Rating: Believe it or not it’s been a stammering 11 years since The Libertines made an album. That’s an entire decade – and then some – since the divisive London scallywags released The Libertines. What’s perhaps harder to believe (granted,…
Suede 90’s Britpop legends Suede took to a packed out John Peel stage on the Saturday night at Worthy Farm, to give Glastonbury its daily dose of glam. Brett Anderson and co kicked off a well deserved headline slot with…
While artists and press alike clamber over themselves to announce “guitar music is dead”, there’s a single outfit of lads directly proving how ludicrous this statement is; the punk-spitting, britpop-boasting band about to dominate and redefine indie: The Jacques. Having…
Ahead of his gig at Jack Rocks @ The Macbeth, we managed to grab a chat with The Libertines drummer and legend Gary Powell, to talk his new project with singer Iris Gold and to get to the bottom of…
For me, a Libertines gig will always be full of nostalgia. Like many other people, I spent much of 2003 and 2004 scrambling frantically to every gig of theirs I could: the early days in Whitechapel, their stints at the…
The Libertines kicked off their three night stay at the Alexandra Palace last night (27th September) with a rip-roaring set that treated fans to tracks from both albums, as well as a few rarities. Although Carl announced the release of…
For many people the thought of a British Festival is mainly about a few things: Music, rain, wellington boots and mud. Now that’s fine if it floats your boat however, for those that prefer the finer things in life (like…
Rating: Hyde Park last night was graced by The Libertines as they continued their second reunion together. Following on from their two intimate warm up shows in Glasgow last weekend they performed in front of 60,000 at Hyde Park and boy they…