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| After a chance meeting at London\'s New Cross scene, the core members of The Libertines, Carl Barat(vocals, guitar) and Pete Doherty(vocals, guitar) formed, after dicovering a shared passion for romantic britishness and indie and punk (as well as recreational drug use). Th |
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After a chance meeting at London\'s New Cross scene, the core members of The Libertines, Carl Barat(vocals, guitar) and Pete Doherty(vocals, guitar) formed, after dicovering a shared passion for romantic britishness and indie and punk (as well as recreational drug use). They then rented a flat in west London, which they christened The Albion Rooms. After a few changes (including Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell), the final line-up added John Hassall (bass), and Gary Powell (drums). In early interviews, Carl and Pete often spoke of \'sailing the good ship Albion to Arcadia\'. They explained that Albion was England, and that Arcadia was their vision of a better place. However, they also insisted that Carl was born in a kitchen sink, Pete\'s previous job was a gravedigger, and they once auditioned an 80 year old jazz drummer called Mr Razzcocks. (All of these later turned out to be true). Initially, critics failed to be inspired by the band\'s unique vision of England, with more cynical onlookers requesting \'Knees up, Mother Brown\'. However, after several gigs in west London (as well as practically reinventing guerilla gigging), they attracted the attention of Alan McGee, the manager who discovered Oasis. From then on, interest rose. Debut single \'What A Waster\' reached the top 40, and got an NME single of the week. Double A-side \'Time For Heroes\' and \'I Get Along\' was critically acclaimed, and on the month that \'Don\'t Look Back Into The Sun\' smashed into the top ten, they released their debut album \'Up The Bracket\'. Although without the aforementioned single, it was well recieved, and they soon became the band everyone was talking about. However, disaster arose. Pete Doherty, whose heroin addiction had been spiralling all this time (Carl once smashed his head into a sink after a paticularly strong argument), was temporarily kicked out of the band in order to sort himself out. Pete saw it as an act of betrayal, and responded by burgling Carl\'s flat. He was later sentenced to two months at Wandsworth prison. However, he came out relatively clean, and their friendship was rekindled. They then won the best British band at the NME wards, beating off the likes of Radiohead and Oasis, and got a new producer, Mick Jones, guitarist with legendary punk band The Clash. However, while recording their second album, Doherty started taking heroin again, and his relationship with Carl was again tested. Rumour has it that McGee had hired two bodyguards to stop the two attacking each other during recording. Eventually, the band decided Pete should come clean, and was sent to various drug rehabilitation centres (including a stint at a Thai monastery). Howver, this was to no avail. During this time, Pete also formed a band with side-project Babyshambles, and duetted with close friend Wolfman to get a No. 7 with \'For Lovers\'. In August, the new single \'Can\'t Stand Me Now\' (written about Pete and Carl\'s fragile relationship) got to No. 2 in the charts, and they got a No.1 album titled \'The Libertines\', which was every bit as good as the previous one. Although the band played many festivals without Pete, he is currently trying to slowly get clean. Recently the band have played many gigs for anti-racism, and ironically, anti-drugs causes, and have a new single out soon.
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Jeez it took long enough
People have been trying to get the Libertines
on here for ages and they used my bio? There
must have been better ones than this.
Anywho...welcome.
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| | woo. | lobotomyactivist-II | Yeah I know. I must've wrote about 30-40
lines, and I didn;'t get printed!
Bastards. | Bulldog | Hahaha... I get the feeling the Libertines
aren't all that popular on here... | loser_freak | hello. i dont actually know the
libertines' music..but..uh..my mom likes
them. o.0 | shadowbug26 | Your mum ('mom') is cool. I would
imagine my mum dislikes the Libertines. | loser_freak | Come on, they got a no. 1 album! ther's
got to be someone out there... | Bulldog | Haha, but seriously, most of the user ID's
on here are like gc_SiMpLe_PlAn_PuNk. They
don't have such a sophistocated musical
taste...not that mine is particularly
sophisticated...
Did that make sense? | loser_freak | absolutely. the libertines kick seven shades
of shit out of those shite american pop
bands. | Bulldog | I assume you would catagorize blink 182 with
them? | loser_freak | I agree with Bulldog! The Libertines cream
the pop scene! | Radio_trash17 | cheers. and i dunno. some of blink 182s stuff
is ok, but their new stuff is the dogs
bollocks. i was talking more about (shudders)
good charlotte | Bulldog | Haha ok. I heard their new song...what became
of the likely lads? I think it's
called...Anyways I loved it. | loser_freak | | got their albums? | Bulldog | I got their new one yesterday. Haven't
listened to it yet. | loser_freak | and now it looks like they're gonna break
up... | lobotomyactivist-II | yeah, shame that. still, babyshambles are
pretty good.. | Bulldog | yea. The Libertines have broken up with sucks
a mighty large bottom. I guess they played
their last concert in France the other night.
But, Carl Barat has sort of formed a new band
with members of The Charlatans, Razorlight
and Primal Scream. I believe they're
calling themselves The Chavs or something
along the lines of that. But, i guess there
is one good thing about them breaking up. We
now know there may be a great possibility
that Carl Barat and Pete Doherty wont be on
stage 50 years from now looking like...well..
Mick Jagger | whatawaster7 | Pete Doherty most likely won't be on the
stage in 2 years if he keeps up the way
he's going. It's a real shame too, The
Libertines were definetley the best band of
the last couple years. | THE_DROOGIE | i havent heard the chavs yet but if anything
babyshambles are better than the
libertines.Theyre amazing!
| RoCkMuSiCrOcKs99 | yah babyshambles are pretty good, but i still
like the libertines more! Even if there arent
many fans of theirs on here...their songs
make my ears happy.. | burn_burn34 | I fell in love with the Libertines all over
again. Their lyrics are just so.. perfect. I
hate to admit that I LOVE Babyshambles. I
tried not to... but I can't help it.
Yay for Pete and Carl! | loser_freak | yeah you should change your members section,
did you forget there are two more people John
Hassal and Gary Powell, obviously not much of
fan who ever set this up | ClaireXx | | | |
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