The Libertines

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Yes, this is for all news picked up via the internetty or via the medium of talking to them if you're so inclined.

Gigs, record releases, Didz tache/beard, Carl's mumbles, Anthony's something and Gary's muscles.

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New gig 23rd october 2008 in Hatfield


Tickets here http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=DIRTY+PRETTY+THI...|artist=null&resultsperpage=20&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch



Also Carl interview

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If he wasn't a musician he could be a Doctor he has the perfect writing for it ( is tempted at this point to elaborate on the visual I've just had of certain examinations ...but best not! ) .

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strychnine said:
If he wasn't a musician he could be a Doctor he has the perfect writing for it ( is tempted at this point to elaborate on the visual I've just had of certain examinations ...but best not! ) .

*eyes you*

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RevSmeeth said:
strychnine said:
If he wasn't a musician he could be a Doctor he has the perfect writing for it ( is tempted at this point to elaborate on the visual I've just had of certain examinations ...but best not! ) .

*eyes you*

wha???? *smirks*

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Listening to The Contours via the medium of youtube...*shouts* Carlos do ya wanna dance ??

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hm... amazing baby, rather nice actually.

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They are also planned in France at the festival Rock en Seine in Paris on the 28th August!! I wish I could go

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Annoying how every media outlook jumped on "Carl chooses Babyshambles song in his list, ignores Libertines catalogue.", when it was originally a Libertines song.

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Isn''t everything their bands do old libs songs ? No, oh...
The better songs then....

Anyone here hoping to go to the Real Fits do ?
I had a holiday booked before but now I *could* go, if there are tickets left.

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Credit to mynameisloz from DPTband
Q magazine interview with Carl.


TRAIN ROUND THE BEND
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
It's jus about moving from the country to the city, which is a journey that I made. "Hey I'm just a city boy/And really not the country kind." I'm originally from Whitechurch in Hampshire. I really identify with that line and the idea that there are people from the country that don't seem to fit in there; you move to the city and there are more people like you. It was my science teacher at school who introduced me to The Velvet Underground. He was quite young, fresh out of teacher-training school. He dealt with unruliness by getting people colour in graph paper - no two colours were allowed to connect. I spent a lot of hours colouring in graph paper. I think he sensed that I wasn't like the rest of the people in the class. He gave me a life changing tape that had Venus In Furs on it, which listened to endlessly in my bedroom.

ON A PLAIN
NIRVANA
Not the right kind of plane to fit the theme, but there's something about this that makes me think of a journey. I was a big Nirvana fan. I was a bit startled on the morning of 28th birthday that was hadn't died. I kind of figured that I might be part of t, y'know, rock stars-dying at 27 thing, like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison. I figured I might be cut from the same cloth. When I was a kid, I always wanted to write songs about what happened inside my head. That's what Cobain managed to do brilliantly here. "I got so high I scratched 'till I bled/I love myself better than you/ I know it's wrong, so what should I do?" It's narcissistic and self indulgent, while at the same time conveying a sense of sympathy. I could have completely misinterpreted it, but that's what it means to me.

HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
BOB DYLAN
I like the way Bob Dylan uses biblical characters and street-talk at the same time here. "Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son/Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on." I wouldn't say that I'm religious, but the Bible is a good book. We all grow up with those stories and they become hard wired into our collective consciousness, which is why they inspire a lot of feeling. Actually, we recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues for an online session recently. Originally, we were going to do Lovefool by The Cardigans - we thought that would be ironic - but it turns out not the be a very good song, or at least, not as good as we thought. So we did Subterranean Homesick Blues instead. It's hard to sing Dylan songs without imitating his accent, but then you tend to go the other way and get a bit "oi". It's more difficult than you think.

EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'
NILSSON
I first got into this song via The Beautiful South. Some people might they're not a very cool band, but I don't give a fuck about cool. It's about melody and lyrics. Since then, I've heard Nilsson's version. It's timeless. it's such a romantic notion , going to the city to escape. For me, hearing a good song is like finding a tenner in the street. It doesn't lead me on a trail [to explore an artist further].

THE DAY WE CAUGHT THE TRAIN
OCEAN COLOUR SCENE
Again, people might think this is not very cool, that they're a bit Jamie Oliver, but when I was 18, this song was everywhere. What I like about it is the sense of romance journeying by train. I used to have a thing about going to the station in Whitechurch and looking at trains going to all these destinations around England. IT makes me think about films like Brief Encounter and Bill Liar. Although, of course, the whole point of Billy Liar is that he doesn't catch the train.

TOUCH ME
THE DOORS
I discovered The Doors on a coach in France during an exchange trip. It was only the second time I'd been abroad. We had about three tapes, we smoked a lot of cigarettes and this was the song that we listened to more than any other. When I hear it now, it reminds me of that summer. It's one of the rare cases that led me on a journey of musical discovery. I went out and bought all their records.

ITCHYCOO PARK
SMALL FACES
Another song about the halcyon days of youth. What's more escapist than skipping school to go and hang around the park? "I feel inclined to blow my mind/Get hung up, feed the fucks with a bun/They all come out to groove about/be nice and have sun in the sun." At the moment I'm into songs about the journey that one's teenager rites of passage represent. Maybe it's something to do with me recently turning 30. It does look a bit suspicious, doesn't it?

MOVING
SUPERGRASS
This song reminds me of being on tour with Supergrass when I was in The Libertines. There were quite a few times when we nearly got kicked off - touching things we weren't supposed to touch, eating things we weren't allowed to eat, and all the rest of it. It was a bit like the kids and the grow ups. But they're an interesting band with a real English predigree and I'm still friends with [drummer] Danny Goffrey. I don't want to kiss Mick Quinn's arse, but there's something about the way he plays the bassline here. It's like a perpetual motion machine or something. It just keeps grinding.

NUAGES
DJANGO REINHART
Nuages means "clouds" in French. I bought the sheet music because I wanted to learn to play it, but I could only manage the first four bars. I suppose this is symbolic of the journal of growing older. You have to be grown up to like songs by Belgian Gypsey guitarists with no words; to me, that suggest a little bit of maturity. I wish I had the attention span to master it, but learning a few of Django's jazz chords did help me. They were like a seed that you can grow your own plant from.

CHANGES
DAVID BOWIE
It's not my favorite Bowie song; that's Oh! You Pretty Things. But there's something very poetic about the lyrics dealing with a journey in the personal sense. It's something needs to be addressed. Like I said, I've just turned 30, so change is something that's on my mind. It's inevitable. I'm trying to embrace it. I thought it would bother me a lot more than it does. What will change? My outlook on frivolity. I want to become prolific. Stop watching crap telly. Do more stuff. The clock's ticking and I need to stop being such a lazy bastard.

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Fucking hell, he really needs to get over being 30. So what? I'm ancient and still carry on like a giddy goat regardless.

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Wait til he gets to *coughty cough* like me and then he can complain.
Still, he has decided getting a new bed'fellow' is first thing to be tackled.

*pets him*

Also, choosing Bowies' Oh you pretty things as his best track=sooooooooooooo ghey

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