This page lists all known Libertines gigs from 2002. If you have any corrections please email blackmarketclash
Go to The Paddingtons,
Go to the other master recordings
(1) Live Bootlegs
(2) Up the Albion
(3) The Libertines sessions
---- other sources welcome
|
|
|
| 01-Sep-99 |   |
Bull & Gate, London |
|
26-Feb-01
|
  |
12 Bar Club, London |
| 27-Jun-01 | |
The Metro Club, London |
| 21-Feb-02 | |
Cherry Jam, London |
| 23-Feb-02 | |
The Refectory, University of Leeds, Leeds |
| supporting The Strokes | ||
| 24-Feb-02 | |
Carling Academy, Birmingham |
|
03-Mar-02
|
|
The Freebutt, Brighton supporting The Vines |
| 07-Mar-02 | |
The Monarch, London supporting The Vines |
| 08-Mar-02 | |
The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham supporting The Vines |
| 09-Mar-02 | |
The Louisiana, Bristol supporting The Vines |
| 06-Apr-02 | |
Coventry, Coloseum |
| secret gig as "Lombard and Spaniel" | ||
| 12-Apr-02 | |
The Army and Navy, Chelmsford |
| 13-Apr-02 | |
The Zodiac, Oxford supporting The Vines |
| 14-Apr-02 | |
Acoustic set for Anti-Apathy, The Spitz, London |
|
||
| 13-May-02 | |
The Louisiana, Bristol |
| 14-May-02 | |
93 Feet East, London |
| 15-May-02 | |
The Square, Harlow |
| 16-May-02 | |
Esquires, Bedford |
| 17-May-02 | |
The Soundhaus, Northampton |
| 18-May-02 | |
Chinnery’s, Southend-on-Sea |
| 20-May-02 | |
The Joiners Arms, Southampton |
| 21-May-02 | |
Little Academy, Birmingham |
| 22-May-02 | |
The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham |
| 23-May-02 | |
Cherry Jam, London |
| 01-Jun-02 | |
The Zanzibar Bandwagon gig, Liverpool |
| 02-Jun-02 | |
The Square, Harlow |
| 03-Jun-02 | |
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 05-Jun-02 | |
The Victoria Inn, Derby |
| 06-Jun-02 | |
The Cockpit, Leeds |
| 07-Jun-02 | |
Barfly, Glasgow |
| 08-Jun-02 | |
The Leadmill, Sheffield |
| 10-Jun-02 | |
The Charlotte, Leicester |
| 11-Jun-02 | |
The Little Civic, Wolverhampton |
| 12-Jun-02 | |
Roadhouse, Manchester |
| 13-Jun-02 | |
Cardiff Barfly, Cardiff, Wales |
| 14-Jun-02 | |
The Met Lounge, Peterborough |
| 27-Jun-02 | |
The Metro Club, London |
|
||
| 04-Jul-02 | |
Accelerator Festival 2002 Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm |
| 14-Jul-02 | |
Witnness Festival 2002, Fairyhouse Racecourse, Ratoath, Ireland |
| 20-Jul-02 | |
Isla De Encanta Music & Arts Fest 2002, Es Garroveral, Magalluf, Spain |
| 27-Jul-02 | |
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London |
| supporting The Sex Pistols |
||
| 03-Aug-02 | |
Beached Festival 2002, Scarborough South Bay |
| 14-Aug-02 | |
Cologne Stadtgarden |
| 17-Aug-02 | |
Summer Sonic Osaka 2002, WTC Open Air Stadium |
| 18-Aug-02 | |
Summer Sonic Tokyo 2002, Chiba Marine Stadium |
| 23-Aug-02 | |
Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester |
| 24-Aug-02 | |
Reading Festival 2002, Little John’s Farm, Reading |
| 25-Aug-02 | |
Leeds Festival 2002, Temple Newsam, Leeds |
| 1-Sep-02 | |
Bologna, Independant Days Festival |
|
||
| 03-Sep-02 | |
La Belle Angele, Edinburgh |
| 04-Sep-02 | |
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen |
| 05-Sep-02 | |
Cornerhouse, Middlesbrough |
| 06-Sep-02 | |
Carling Academy 2, Birmingham |
| 07-Sep-02 | |
The Charlotte, Leicester |
| 09-Sep-02 | |
The Sugarmill, Hanley |
| 10-Sep-02 | |
Fibbers, York |
| 11-Sep-02 | |
The Soundhaus, Northampton |
| 12-Sep-02 | |
Zak’s Club, Milton Keynes |
| 13-Sep-02 | |
The Cockpit, Leeds |
| 14-Sep-02 | |
The Colosseum, Coventry |
| 16-Sep-02 | |
Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich |
| 17-Sep-02 | |
Chinnery’s, Southend-on-Sea |
| 18-Sep-02 | |
The Joiners Arms, Southampton |
| 19-Sep-02 | |
The Louisiana, Bristol |
| 20-Sep-02 | |
Cardiff Barfly, Cardiff, Wales |
| 22-Sep-02 | |
Exeter Cavern, Exeter |
| 23-Sep-02 | |
Mr Smiths, Bournemouth |
| 25-Sep-02 | |
The Zodiac, Oxford |
| 26-Sep-02 | |
The Met Lounge, Peterborough |
| 28-Sep-02 | |
Pavilion Theatre, Brighton |
| 30-Sep-02 | |
The Victoria Inn, Derby |
| 01-Oct-02 | |
The Boat Race, Cambridge |
| 02-Oct-02 | |
The Forum, Royal Tunbridge Wells |
| 04-Oct-02 | |
100 Club, London, 100 Club, London |
| 05-Oct-02 | |
University of Liverpool, Liverpool |
| 06-Oct-02 | |
Charlie Wright’s Music Lounge, London |
| secret gig with The Lefthand & Kill City | ||
| 11-Oct-02 | |
Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, Ireland |
| 12-Oct-02 | |
Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
|
||
| 15-Oct-02 | |
Rock City, Nottingham supporting Supergrass |
| 16-Oct-02 | |
Northumbria University, Newcastle supporting Supergrass |
| 17-Oct-02 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow supporting Supergrass |
| 18-Oct-02 | |
The Refectory, University of Leeds supporting Supergrass |
| 20-Oct-02 | |
Manchester Academy 1, University supporting Supergrass |
| 21-Oct-02 |  |
BirminghamCarling Academy, supporting Supergrass |
| 21-Oct-02 | |
Bristol Academy, supporting Supergrass |
| 24-Oct-02 | |
Southampton Guildhall, supporting Supergrass |
| 23-Oct-02 | |
London, HMV instore gig |
| 25-Oct-02 | |
Cardiff University, supporting Supergrass |
| 27-Oct-02 | |
Cambridge Corn Exchange, supporting Supergrass |
| 28-Oct-02 | |
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, supporting Supergrass |
| 29-Oct-02 | |
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, supporting Supergrass |
| 30-Oct-02 | |
Rock City, Nottingham |
| NME Term Warfare Tour with The Vines & Hoggboy | ||
| 1-Nov-02 | |
Later With Jools Holland (3trks + interview) |
| 05-Nov-02 | |
Brixton Academy, London, supporting Morrissey |
|
||
| 07-Nov-02 | |
Le Divan du Monde, Paris |
| 09-Nov-02 | |
London Calling 2002 #2, Paradiso, Amsterdam |
| 10-Nov-02 | |
Unknown Venue, Barcelona, Spain |
| 12-Nov-02 | |
Schlachthof, Hamburg |
| 13-Nov-02 | |
Magnet Club, Berlin |
| 14-Nov-02 | |
Nachtleben, Frankfurt |
| 15-Nov-02 | |
Atomic Café, Munich |
| 16-Nov-02 | |
Starclub, Dresden |
| 17-Nov-02 | |
Gebäude 9, Cologne |
| 19-Nov-02 | |
NT-Areal, Basel, Switzerland |
| 21-Nov-02 | |
Propaganda, Milan, Italy |
| 22-Nov-02 | |
Classic, Rome, Italy |
| 23-Nov-02 | |
Covo Club, Bologna, Italy |
| 26-Nov-02 | |
Razzmatazz 3, Barcelona, Spain * |
| 27-Nov-02 | |
Fnac San Agustín, Valencia, Spain |
| 29-Nov-02 | |
Fnac Callao, Madrid, Spain |
| 29-Nov-02 | |
Moby Dick, Madrid, Spain |
| 30-Nov-02 | |
Azkena, Bilbao, Spain |
| 01-Dec-02 | |
CAT, Bordeaux, France |
| 02-Dec-02 | |
Le Chabada, Angers, France |
| 03-Dec-02 | |
Café Théâtre Botanique, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium |
|
||
| 06-Dec-02 | |
Stoke Newington Armitage Shanks, London |
| 07-Dec-02 | |
Stoke Newington Armitage Shanks, London |
| Stoke Newington Armitage Shanks secret gigs with BRMC | ||
| 10-Dec-02 | |
Marquee Club, London, XFM Xmas Party |
| 18-Dec-02 | |
Sticky Fingers, Stockholm, Sweden |
|
|
|
| 2002 | |
2002 BBC Radio Lamacq Session |
| 2002 | |
2002 BBC Radio Zoe Ball Session |
| 2002 | |
2002 2002 XFM sessions |
|
|
|
| 09-Jan-03 | |
Eurosonic Festival, Vera, Groningen, Holland |
| 16-Jan-03 | |
London, Filthy McNasty |
| 17-Jan-03 | |
New York, Brooklyn, Rockstar Bar |
| 18-Jan-03 | |
New York, Club Luxx |
| 19-Jan-03 | |
New York, C.B.G.B. |
| 21-Jan-03 | |
VPRO 'HET LEK' (wanted) |
| 22-Jan-03 | |
Roxy Club, Valencia, Spain |
| 24-Jan-03 | |
Top of the Pops BBC TV (wanted) |
| 31-Jan-03 | |
San Francisco (USA), Bottom of the Hill |
| 3-Feb-03 | |
New York, C.B.G.B. |
| 4-Feb-03 | |
New York, Club Luxx |
| 7-Feb-03 | |
Los Angeles, Spaceland (moved from Jan. 23) |
| 8-Feb-03 | |
West Hollywood, Viper Room |
|
||
| 12-Feb-03 | |
London, Astoria NME Awards Show |
| 14-Feb-03 | |
London, Rhythm Factory |
| 15-Feb-03 | |
Kulturbolaget, Malmö, Sweden, support: The Cherubs |
| there will be a boxing match previous to the gig instead |
||
| 16-Feb-03 | |
Södra Teatern, Stockholm, support: The Cherubs |
| 17-Feb-03 | |
So What!, Oslo, Norway, support: The Cherubs |
| 18-Feb-03 | |
Bergen, Garage, Norway, support: The Cherubs |
| 19-Feb-03 | |
Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg, support: The Cherubs |
| 20-Feb-03 | |
Loppen, Copenhagen (wanted), support: The Cherubs |
| 20-Feb-03 | |
Vienna, Flex |
|
||
| 21-Feb-03 | |
London, The Fusilier & Firkin Joe Strummer tribute gig |
| 23-Feb-03 | |
Sheffield, Leadmill |
| 23-Feb-03 | |
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow |
| 24-Feb-03 | |
Liverpool University Guild of Students, Stanley Theatre |
| ALT-MASTER includes encores. Video just 40 seconds (encore) | ||
| 25-Feb-03 | |
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms |
| 27-Feb-03 | |
Hamburg, Schlachthof |
| with DJ Alan MCGee and BP Fallon, support: Hoggboy | ||
| 28-Feb-03 | |
Berlin, ColumbiaFritz |
| with DJ Alan MCGee and BP Fallon, support: Hoggboy | ||
| 1-Mar-03 | |
Munich, Atomic Café, support Hoggboy |
| 2-Mar-03 | |
Heidelberg , Karlstorbahnhof, support Hoggboy |
| 4-Mar-03 | |
Strasbourg, La Laiterie, support Hoggboy |
| 5-Mar-03 | |
Tourcoing, Le Grand Mix, support Sheetah Et Les Weismuller |
| 6-Mar-03 | |
Nantes, L'Olympic |
| 07-Mar-03 | |
Élysée Montmartre, Paris, support The Kills |
| 9-Mar-03 | |
Brussels, Botanique support |
| 10-Mar-03 | |
Rotterdam, Waterfront |
| 11-Mar-03 | |
Amsterdam, Melkweg |
|
||
| 13-Mar-03 | |
LIQUIDROOM, Tokyo |
| 13-Mar-03 | |
Harajuku Astro Hall, Tokyo |
|
||
| 2i-Mar-03 | |
London, Albion Rooms, secret gig |
| 27-Mar-03 | |
London, The Buffalo Bar, secret gig |
| 28-Mar-03 | |
London, The Barfly, secret gig |
|
||
| 28-Mar-03 | |
Barcelona, Razzmatazz |
| 29-Mar-03 | |
Alicante, Santa Pola (Camelot) |
| 30-Mar-03 | |
Madrid, Caracol |
| 31-Mar-03 | |
Bilbao, Azkena |
| 1-Apr-03 | |
Torino, Club Hiroshima |
|
||
| 3-Apr-03 | |
London, Lark in the Park, secret gig |
| 4-Apr-03 | |
London, The Barfly, secret gig |
| 5-Apr-03 | |
Grand Arcadian Cabaret, Scaraborough |
| Steve's warehouse squat secret gig | ||
|
||
| 8-Apr-03 | |
Nagoya, Quattro |
| 9-Apr-03 | |
Osaka, Heart & Bridge |
| 10-Apr-03 | |
Fukuoka, Drum Logos |
| 11-Apr-03 | |
Kyoto, Club Metro |
| 13-Apr-03 | |
Tokyo, Shinjuku Liquid Room |
| 14-Apr-03 | |
Tokyo, Shinjuku Liquid Room |
| 15-Apr-03 | |
Harajyuku, Asutoro Hall |
| 16-Apr-03 | |
Sendai, Junk Box |
| 17-Apr-03 | |
Sapporo, Penny Lane 24 |
| 18-Apr-03 | |
Shinnijuku, Rikkiddo Room |
| 19-Apr-03 | |
TV Show Factory for Japanese TV |
|
||
| 24-Apr-03 | |
San Francisco, Slim's |
| 26-Apr-03 | |
Coachella Festival 2003, Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA |
| 27-Apr-03 | |
Coachella Festival 2003, Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA |
| 28-Apr-03 | |
Seattle, Crocodile Café |
| 30-Apr-03 | |
CBGB, New York, NY (see notes) |
| 2-May-03 | |
New York, Luxx |
| 5-May-03 | |
New York, The Bowery |
| 05-May-03 | |
North Star Bar, Philadelphia, PA |
| 07-May-03 | |
Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA |
| 09-May-03 | |
Late Show With David Letterman, New York, NY |
|
||
| 19-May-03 | |
Paradiso, Amsterdam |
| 28-May-03 | |
London, Gunter Grove, Chelsea secret gig |
| 01-Jun-03 | |
London, Bar Undersolo, Inverness St., Camden secret gig |
| 03-Jun-03 | |
London, Romford Rd, secret gig |
|
||
| 06-Jun-03 | |
Rock im Park 2003, Frankenstadion, Nuremberg |
| 08-Jun-03 | |
Rock am Ring 2003, Nürburgring, Nuerburgring |
| 09-Jun-03 | |
Melkweg, Amsterdam, support Gem |
| 13-Jun-03 | |
Vitoria, Spain, Sala Azkena |
| 14-Jun-03 | |
Santa Pola, Spain, Camelot |
| 15-Jun-03 | |
Caracol, Madrid |
| 16-Jun-03 | |
Barcelona, Razzmatazz 3 |
| 18-Jun-03 | |
Élysée Montmartre, Paris, support: M.A.S.S. |
|
||
| 20-Jun-03 | |
Manchester Academy 1, University (was 23rd) |
| 21-Jun-03 | |
Wirral Festival Big-Top at Kings Parade, New Brighton |
| 22-Jun-03 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow |
| 24-Jun-03 | |
Leeds Cockpit |
| 25-Jun-03 | |
London Forum (was 24th) |
| 28-Jun-03 | |
Glastonbury Festival 2003, Worthy Farm, Pilton |
| 2-Jul-03 | |
London, Peckham, The Ivy House secret gig |
| 5-Jul-03 | |
Belfort Festival France |
| 9-Jul-03 | |
London, Camden, The Under Bar Solo secret gig |
| 15-Jul-03 |  |
Spanish TV |
| 25-Jul-03 | |
Fuji Rock Festival 2003, Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa |
| 26-Jul-03 | |
Dortmund, Visions Westend Festival |
| 25-Jul-03 | London, 61 Gascony Ave Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 25-Jul-03 | Chatham, Tap n Tin Babyshambles secret gig | |
|
||
| 1-Aug-03 | |
San Francisco, Popscene |
| 3-Aug-03 | |
San Francisco, Slim |
| 4-Aug-03 | |
Los Angeles, LA, El Rey Theatre |
| 4-Aug-03 | London, The Gardens Club Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 5-Aug-03 | |
Las Vegas, Huntridge Theater |
| 7-Aug-03 | |
Denver, Bluebird Theater |
| 8-Aug-03 | |
Rees-Haldern, Haldern Festival |
| 9-Aug-03 | |
7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN |
| 10-Aug-03 | |
Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL |
| 12-Aug-03 | |
The Opera House, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 13-Aug-03 | |
Montreal, Café Campus |
| 14-Aug-03 | London, The Troubadour Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 16-Aug-03 | |
Washington DC, Black Cat |
| 18-Aug-03 | |
Atlanta, Cotton Club and also Instore |
| 18-Aug-03 | London, The Gardens Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 19-Aug-03 | |
New Orleans, LA, The Parish House Of Blues |
| 20-Aug-03 | |
New York, Irving Plaza |
| resheduled from the 20th due to power cut in NY | ||
|
||
| 22-Aug-03 | London, Troubadour, Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 23-Aug-03 | London, Troubadour, Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 25-Aug-03 | London, The Gardens Babyshambles CANCELLED | |
| 23-Aug-03 | |
Reading Festival 2003, Little John’s Farm, Reading |
| 24-Aug-03 | |
Leeds Festival 2003, Bramham Park, Leeds |
| 29-Aug-03 | Tapestry Wild West Festival, Cornwall Babyshambles CANCELLED |
|
| 30-Aug-03 | Tapestry Wild West Festival, Cornwall Babyshambles CANCELLED |
|
|
||
| 08-Oct-03 | |
Tap ‘n’ Tin, Chatham |
| 13-Oct-03 | |
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London |
| 15-Oct-03 | |
Neighbourhood, London |
| Rough Trade 25th Anniversary Show | ||
| 17-Oct-03 | |
London, Camden Barfly secret gig |
| 18-Oct-03 | |
London, The Duke Of Clarence secret gig |
| 05-Nov-03 | |
London, Duke of Clarence |
| Wolfman & The Side Effects joined by Peter | ||
| 11-Nov-03 | |
London, Albion Rooms secret gig |
| 13-Nov-03 | London Pete secret gig | |
| 19-Nov-03 | |
London, Duke of Clarence |
| 01-Dec-03 | |
Filthy McNasty’s Pub, London |
| 05-Dec-03 | |
The Rhythm Factory, London |
| 12-Dec-03 | |
London, Barfly |
| 16-Dec-03 | |
Kentish Town Forum, London |
| 17-Dec-03 | |
Kentish Town Forum, London |
| 18-Dec-03 | |
Kentish Town Forum, London (+BBC R1) |
| 12-Dec-03 | |
London, Filthy McNastys - Joe Strummer tribute |
| 23-Dec-03 | |
The Rhythm Factory, London |
| "City of Libertines" (Libs & 13 other bands including Killy City, The Rocks, The Lams) | ||
|
|
|
| 2004 | |
Top of the Pops BBCTV |
| 2004 | |
Time for Heroes live Ch4 Ear Candy |
| 2004 | |
Live on NME awards |
|
||
| 11-Jan-04 | London, Buffalo Bar John Hassall & Johnny Borrell | |
| 15-Jan-04 | |
Middlebrough Arena |
| 16-Jan-04 | |
Northumbria University, Newcastle |
| 18-Jan-04 | London, Peter's flat |
|
|
||
| 15-Feb-04 | |
Bandwagon, Liverpool [demos] |
| Zanzibar, Peter Doherty & guests | ||
| 18-Feb-04 | |
Duke of Clarence, London |
| 26-Jan-04 | |
London, Rhythm factory |
| "A night of maximum rock'n'roll" with Selfish Cu*t, The Others etc. | ||
|
||
| 29-Feb-04 | |
Carling Academy, Birmingham |
| 01-Mar-04 | |
Manchester University, Manchester |
| 02-Mar-04 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow |
| 04-Mar-04 | |
Colston Hall, Bristol |
| 05-Mar-04 | |
Carling Academy Brixton, London |
| 06-Mar-04 | |
Carling Academy Brixton, London |
| 07-Mar-04 | |
Carling Academy Brixton, London |
| 16-Mar-04 | |
Rock Against Racism, London Astoria, London |
| 21-Mar-04 | |
London, Colour Bar |
| 23-Mar-04 | |
The Rhythm Factory, London |
| For Lovers Launch Party | ||
| 10-Apr-04 | |
London, The Coronet Theatre Don Letts Film Night |
| 13-Apr-04 | London, Café de Paris Wolfman & Peter Doherty |
|
| 14-Apr-04 | |
The Rhythm Factory, London |
| 15-Apr-04 | |
The Rhythm Factory, London |
| thelibertines.org anniversary party | ||
| 20-Apr-04 | London, Rooz Studios Babyshambles secret gig | |
| 21-Apr-04 | Stoke-On-Trent, The Underground | |
| Babyshambles single launch gig. (I went to this) | ||
| Mar-04 | |
Jonathan Ross TV Show, London |
| 27-May-04 | |
London, HMV Oxford Street |
|
||
| 06-Jun-04 | |
London, Finsbury Park Love Music Hate Racism Fest. |
| 07-Jun-04 | |
Infinity Club, London * |
| Carl's club night launch gig |
||
| 11-Jun-04 | |
Meltdown Festival 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London |
| supporting Morrissey | ||
| 12-Jun-04 | |
London, Café de Paris |
| Jonathan Richmond Fashion Show | ||
| 12-Jun-04 | |
Isle of Wight Festival |
| 10-Jul-04 | |
T in the Park 2004, Balado, Kinross |
| 11-Jul-04 | |
Oxegen 2004, Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Ireland |
| 01-Aug-04 | |
Fuji Rock Festival 2004, Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa |
| 9-Aug-04 | |
Melbourne, The Corner Hotel |
| 12-Aug-04 | |
The Gaelic Club, Sydney |
| 17-Aug-04 | |
Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, |
| 19-Aug-04 | |
Los Angeles, The Troubadour |
|
||
| 01-Sep-04 | |
Unknown Venue, Bologna, |
| 04-Sep-04 | |
I-Day 2004, Arena Parco Nord, Bologna |
| 06-Sep-04 | |
Kalkscheune, Berlin |
| 07-Sep-04 | |
Cologne, Gebäude 9 |
| 09-Sep-04 | |
Lisbon, Paradise Garage |
| 1-Sep-04 | |
Razzmatazz, Barcelona |
| 14-Sep-04 | |
La Boule Noire, Paris |
| 16-Sep-04 | |
L’Orangerie du Botanique, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium |
| 18-Sep-04 | |
Bazar Curieux 2004, Nighttown, Rotterdam |
| 20-Sep-04 | |
Stockholm, Debaser |
|
||
| 27-Sep-04 | |
Richard’s on Richards, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 28-Sep-04 | |
Portland, OR Dante's |
| 29-Sep-04 | |
Seattle, WA Neumo's |
| 01-Oct-04 | |
San Francisco, CA The Fillmore |
| 02-Oct-04 | |
Music Box at the Fonda, Los Angeles, CA |
| 03-Oct-04 | |
San Diego, CA Mira Mesa Epicentre |
| 06-Oct-04 | |
Denver, CO Larimer Lounge |
| 08-Oct-04 | |
Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN |
| 09-Oct-04 | |
Metro, Chicago, IL |
| 10-Oct-04 | |
The Magic Stick, Detroit, MI |
| 11-Oct-04 | |
New York, MTV show "Discover and download" |
| 12-Oct-04 | |
Webster Hall, New York, NY |
| 13-Oct-04 | |
Conan O'Brian TV, New York |
| 15-Oct-04 | |
The Opera House, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 16-Oct-04 | |
La Tulipe, Montreal, QC, Canada |
| 17-Oct-04 | |
The Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 18-Oct-04 | |
Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA |
| 21-Oct-04 | |
Atlanta, GA Echo Lounge |
| 22-Oct-04 | |
Orlando, FL The Social |
|
||
| 05-Nov-04 | |
Les Inrockuptibles 2004, La Cigale, Paris |
| 07-Nov-04 | |
Tim Festival São Paulo 2004 |
| 08-Nov-04 | |
Tim Festival Rio de Janeiro 2004 |
|
||
| 24-Oct-04 | |
Hiroshima, Quattro |
| 25-Oct-04 | |
Fukuoka, Zepp |
| 27-Oct-04 | |
Nagoya, Diamond Hall |
| 29-Oct-04 | |
Tokyo, Zepp |
| 01-Nov-04 | |
Kawasaki, Citta |
| 02-Nov-04 | |
Osaka, Hatch |
|
||
| 12-Dec-04 | |
Limelight, Belfast |
| 12-Dec-04 | |
The Village, Dublin, Ireland |
| 13-Dec-04 | |
The Forum, London |
| 14-Dec-04 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow |
| 15-Dec-04 | |
Empress Ballroom, Blackpool |
| 16-Dec-04 | |
The Leadmill, Sheffield |
| 17-Dec-04 | |
Studio 287, Paris, France |
| "secret" show with PJ Harvey | ||
| 18-Dec-04 | |
London Astoria, London |
|
|
|
|
12-Apr-07
|
|
Hackney Empire, London |
|
|
|
|
15-May-07
|
|
Rhythm Factory, London |
|
|
|
| 31-Mar-10 | |
Boogaloo, London |
| 24-Aug-10 | |
HMV Forum, London |
| 25-Aug-10 | |
HMV Forum, London |
| 27-Aug-10 | |
Leeds Festival 2010, Bramham Park, Leeds |
| 28-Aug-10 | |
Reading Festival 2010, Little John’s Farm, Reading |
|
|
|
| 28-Jun-14 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow |
| 29-Jun-14 | |
Barrowland, Glasgow |
| 05-Jul-14 | |
British Summer Time 2014, Hyde Park, London |
| 12-Jul-14 | |
Optimus Alive! 2014, Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Oeiras, Portugal |
| 19-Jul-14 | |
Benicàssim 2014, Recinto de Festivales, Benicassim, Spain |
| 23-Sep-14 | |
Store Vega, Store Vega, Copenhagen, |
| 26-Sep-14 | |
Alexandra Palace, London |
| 27-Sep-14 | |
Alexandra Palace, London |
| 28-Sep-14 | |
Alexandra Palace, London |
| 30-Sep-14 | |
Le Zénith, Paris |
| 01-Oct-14 | |
Vorst Nationaal / Forest National, Vorst / Forest, Belgium |
| 02-Oct-14 | |
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 04-Oct-14 | |
Arena Berlin, Berlin |
| 05-Oct-14 | |
Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Düsseldorf |
|
|
|
| 19-Jun-15 | |
Best Kept Secret 2015, Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek |
| 26-Jun-15 | |
Glastonbury Festival 2015, Worthy Farm, Pilton |
| 27-Jun-15 | |
Ahmad Tea Music Festival 2015, Muzeon Park, Moscow |
| 02-Jul-15 | |
Open’er Festival 2015, Lotnisko Gdynia-Kosakowo, Poland |
| 04-Jul-15 | |
Fabrique, Milan, Italy |
| 09-Jul-15 | |
3Arena, Dublin, Ireland |
| 10-Jul-15 | |
T in the Park 2015, Strathallan Castle, Auchterarder, Scotland |
| 11-Jul-15 | |
T in the Park 2015, Strathallan Castle, Auchterarder, Scotland |
| 22-Jul-15 | |
Ibiza Rocks 2015, Ibiza Rocks Hotel, Sant Antoni de Portmany |
| 25-Jul-15 | |
Low Festival 2015, Ciudad Deportiva Guillermo Amor, Benidorm, Spain |
| 28-Jul-15 | |
The Blues Kitchen, Camden, London |
| 26-Aug-15 | |
Zürich Openair 2015, Glattbrug, Rümlang, Switzerland |
| 28-Aug-15 | |
Leeds Festival 2015, Bramham Park, Leeds |
| 29-Aug-15 | |
Rock en Seine 2015, Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, France |
| 30-Aug-15 | |
Reading Festival 2015, Little John’s Farm, Reading |
| 04-Sep-15 | |
The Dublin Castle, London |
| 06-Sep-15 | |
O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow |
| 07-Sep-15 | |
Rock City, Nottingham |
| 08-Sep-15 | |
O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol |
| 12-Sep-15 | |
Lollapalooza Berlin 2015, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin |
| 16-Sep-15 | |
HMV Oxford Street, London |
| 29-Sep-15 | |
Later with Jools Holland, Maidstone |
| 21-Nov-15 | |
Corona Capital 2015, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City |
| 28-Nov-15 | |
Clockenflap 2015, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
|
|
|
| 19-Jan-16 | |
The Empire, Coventry |
| 21-Jan-16 | |
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow |
| 23-Jan-16 | |
Manchester Arena, Manchester |
| 25-Jan-16 | |
Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham |
| 26-Jan-16 | |
Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales |
| 27-Jan-16 | |
Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham |
| 29-Jan-16 | |
Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth |
| 30-Jan-16 | |
The O2 Arena, London |
|
||
| 07-Feb-16 | |
Columbiahalle, Berlin |
| 09-Feb-16 | |
Zenith, Munich |
| 10-Feb-16 | |
Palladium, Cologne |
| 01-Mar-16 | |
Paradiso Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 02-Mar-16 | |
Paradiso Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 04-Mar-16 | |
AB Brussels 2016, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
| 05-Mar-16 | |
AB Brussels 2016, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
| 07-Mar-16 | |
L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris |
| 09-Mar-16 | |
L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris |
| 24-Mar-16 | |
X-TRA, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 25-Mar-16 | |
Wiener Stadthalle - Halle D, Vienna, Austria |
| 07-May-16 | |
SOS 4.8 Festival 2016, Recinto Ferial de La Fica, Murcia, Spain |
| 17-Jun-16 | |
Ardèche Aluna Festival 2016, Camping Sunélia Aluna Vacances, Ruoms, France |
| 15-Jul-16 | |
BIG Festival 2016, Parc des sports d’Aguiléra, Biarritz, France |
| 16-Jul-16 | |
Festival Vieilles Charrues, Les Vieilles Charrues 2016, La Prairie de Kerampuilh, Carhaix-Plouguer, France |
| 20-Jul-16 | |
Boogaloo, London |
| 12-Aug-16 | |
Way Out West 2016, Slottsskogen, Gothenburg |
| 20-Aug-16 | |
Rock am See 2016, Bodenseestadion, Konstanz, Germany |
| 07-Sep-16 | |
O2 Academy Brixton, London |
| 05-Oct-16 | |
Arena Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 06-Oct-16 | |
Teatro Estudio Cavaret, Zapopan, Mexico |
| 08-Oct-16 | |
Popload Festival 2016 #1, Urban Stage, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 10-Oct-16 | |
Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile |
| 14-Oct-16 | |
Festival BUE 2016, Tecnópolis, Villa Martelli, Argentina |
|
|
|
| 20-May-17 | |
Wirral Live 2017, Prenton Park, Birkenhead |
| 21-Jul-17 | |
Tramlines Festival 2017, The Ponderosa, Sheffield |
| 22-Jul-17 | |
Truck Festival 2017, Hill Farm, Steventon |
| 03-Aug-17 | |
Live from Times Square 2017, Times Square, Newcastle |
| 03-Sep-17 | |
Home Festival 2017, Zona Dogana, Treviso, Italy |
| 10-Sep-17 | |
OnBlackheath 2017, Blackheath Common, Albury |
| 17-Sep-17 | |
Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline |
| 18-Sep-17 | |
The Ironworks, Inverness |
| 19-Sep-17 | |
Grand Hall, Kilmarnock |
| 22-Sep-17 | |
Parr Hall, Warrington |
| 23-Sep-17 | |
Hull Arena, Kingston upon Hull |
| 25-Sep-17 | |
Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth |
| 26-Sep-17 | |
The Spa, Scarborough |
| 30-Sep-17 | |
The Aquarium, Lowestoft |
| 01-Oct-17 | |
By The Sea 2017, Margate |
| 02-Oct-17 | |
Brighton Centre, Brighton |
|
|
|
| 24-Feb-18 | |
Sydney City Limits 2018, Centennial Park, Sydney |
| 27-Feb-18 | |
John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne, Australia |
| 28-Feb-18 | |
Forum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia |
| 01-Mar-18 | |
The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia |
| 03-Mar-18 | |
Auckland City Limits 2018, Western Springs Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 04-Jun-18 | |
Roundhouse, London |
| 16-Jun-18 | |
Conexión Valladolid 2018, Pinar de Antequera,Valladolid, Spain |
| 17-Jun-18 | |
Meltdown Festival 2018, Royal Festival Hall, London |
| 27-Jul-18 | |
Y Not 2018, Peak District National Park, Pikehall |
| 29-Jul-18 | |
Kendal Calling 2018, Lowther Deer Park, Penrith |
| 24-Aug-18 | |
Victorious Festival 2018, Southsea Common, Portsmouth |
| 01-Sep-18 | |
Hodgepodge Superfest 2018, Allianz Ecopark, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 01-Sep-18 | |
Hodgepodge Superfest 2018, Allianz Ecopark, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 09-Sep-18 | |
Wheels and Fins Festival 2018, Joss Bay Beach, Broadstairs, Kent |
|
|
|
| 27-Oct-19 | |
L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris |
| 28-Oct-19 | |
X-TRA, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 02-Nov-19 | |
Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne |
| 04-Nov-19 | |
Tonhalle, Munich |
| 05-Nov-19 | |
Columbiahalle, Berlin |
| 11-Dec-19 | |
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester |
| 12-Dec-19 | |
Rock City, Nottingham |
| 14-Dec-19 | |
O2 Academy, Birmingham |
| 15-Dec-19 | |
O2 Academy, Birmingham |
| 16-Dec-19 | |
O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol |
| 18-Dec-19 | |
O2 Academy Brixton, London |
| 19-Dec-19 | |
O2 Academy Brixton, London |
| 22-Dec-19 | |
Winter Gardens, Margate |
|
|
|
|
29-Aug-20
|
|
Virgin Money Unity Arena, Newcastle |
|
|
|
| 06-Aug-21 | |
Bingley Weekender, Bingley, UK |
| 16-Sep-21 | |
The Playground Festival 21 Rouken Glen Park, Glasgow |
| 24-Sep-21 | |
Rochester Castle, Rochester, UK |
| 20-Nov-21 | |
Margate Winter Gardens |
| 23-Nov-21 | |
O2 Academy Glasgow |
| 25-Nov-21 | |
O2 Academy Bournemouth |
| 26-Nov-21 | |
The Brighton Centre |
| 27-Nov-21 | |
Norwich Nick Rayns LCR UEA |
| 29-Nov-21 | |
O2 Academy Birmingham |
| 30-Nov-21 | |
O2 Academy Leeds |
| 01-Dec-21 | |
Edinburgh, UK, Usher Hall |
| 03-Dec-21 | |
O2 Academy Newcastle |
| 04-Dec-21 | |
Liverpool University Guild of Students (Mountford Hall & Stanley Theatre) |
| 06-Dec-21 | |
Manchester Academy |
| 07-Dec-21 | |
O2 Academy Leicester |
| 09-Dec-21 | |
Solus, Cardiff University Students Union |
| 10-Dec-21 | |
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, UK |
| 11-Dec-21 | |
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, UK |
| 13-Dec-21 | |
O2 Academy Bristol |
| 14-Dec-21 | |
Nottingham, UK Rock City |
| 16-Dec-21 | |
O2 Academy Sheffield |
| 17-Dec-21 | |
O2 Forum Kentish Town London, UK |
| 18-Dec-21 | |
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, UK |
| 19-Dec-21 | |
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, UK |
|
|
|
The Paddingtons known live recordings
| |
London Radio Acoustic / Sorry (Acoustic) | |
| 16 08 04 | |
Jabez Cleggs Manchester / 1 track |
| 17 10 04 | |
Manchester Roadhouse [master] |
| 20 10 04 | |
Roadhouse Manchester [Supporting Eastern Lane] |
| 28 04 05 | |
BBC 6 MUSIC Acoustic Session Gideon Coe |
| Worse for Wear (Acoustic) / Panic Attack (Acoustic) Interview | ||
| 07 05 05 | |
The Scala, Paris / 50 to a with Pete Doherty |
| 02 11 05 | |
HMV Oxford Circus |
| 24 10 06 | |
Oxford Zodiac [aud] |
| 10 04 06 | |
Cologne Prime Club |
|
|
|
| 1979 11 04 | |
Buzzcocks Bristol Colston Hall [soundboard master] |
| 1996 -- -- | |
Not Sensibles Punk Festival Blackppool |
| 2001 07 05 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Bar Cuba Macclesfield |
| 2001 07 06 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Morecambe Punk Festival |
| 2001 07 07 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Holidays in the Sun Punk Festival |
| 2001 08 25 | |
Ash @ Leeds Festival 2001 |
| 2001 08 26 | |
Supergrass Leeds Festival |
| 2001 08 26 | |
Teenage Fanclub @ Leeds Festival |
| 2001 09 14 | |
Richard Ashcroft Lancashire Cricket Club |
| 2001 09 15 | |
Richard Ashcroft Lancashire Cricket Club |
| 2001 11 28 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Bar Cuba, Macclesfield |
| 2002 03 01 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Anniversary Tour Leeds |
| 2002 06 15 | |
Stiff Little Fingers The Paradise Boston, USA |
| 2002 06 17 | |
Stiff Little Fingers BB Kings New York |
| 2002 08 25 | |
The Hives Leeds Festival |
| 2002 08 25 | |
Muse Leeds Festival |
| 2002 08 25 | |
Pulp Leeds Festival |
| 2002 08 26 | |
Mogwai @ Leeds Festival |
| 2002 08 26 | |
Foo Fighters Leeds Festival |
| 2002 09 05 | |
Stiff Little Fingers Philadelphia Trocadero [maste-encores only] |
| 2002 09 14 | |
Electric Soft Parade live Lancs Cricket Club - supporting Oasis |
| 2002 10 18 | |
Supergrass Leeds University |
| 2002 10 28 | |
The Vines - Manchester Academy |
| 2002 10 30 | |
Vines Notingham Rock City R1 |
| 2002 11 02 | |
Morrisey King Georges Hall Blackburn |
| 2002 11 03 | |
Suede Manchester Academy |
| 2003 01 11 | |
The Music Manchester Academy |
| 2003 06 19 | |
Travis King Georges Hall, Blackburn |
| 2004 08 16 | |
Babyshambles Jabez Clegg Manchester |
| 2004 10 03 | |
Stiff Little Fingers, King Georges, Blackburn |
| 2004 10 04 | |
Razorlight Manchster Academy |
| 2004 10 09 | |
Ordinary Boys Liverpool |
| 2003 10 23 | |
Razorlight Manchester Hop & Grape/Academy 3 |
| 2003 11 09 | |
Beautiful South Blackburn |
| 2004 10 20 | |
The Ordinary Boys Granary Wharf, Leeds |
|
|
|
Here are 229 tracks I would pick from this era
(in year order) with this Spotify playlist for most of them. Enjoy
-----------
I’m just a fan. I don’t know anybody in the music industry and I just bought tickets like everybody else. I was really fortunate to see the libertines right from the very beginning only due to the fact that someone posted on the Clash message board that Mick Jones was working with this new band.
I’m just a fan. I don’t know anybody in the music industry and I just bought tickets like everybody else. I was fortunate to see the libertines right from the very beginning only because someone posted on the Clash message board that Mick Jones was working with this new band.
I first saw them by accident at the sex pistols gig in July 2002 at Crystal Palace. I noticed them and they seemed quite good particularly for a support band. I think they were third on the bill.
I turned up at York Fibbers a couple of months later with a MiniDisc recorder to play them back and was blown away. I have never seen a band with so much energy passion since The Clash. In fact to put it in perspective, once you’ve watched The Clash every other gig that you ever attend is a lesser event. No band will ever recapture that presence on stage, that sheer excitement that something very different was happening.
York Fibbers is a small little venue no bigger than a pub with a big room at the back. It’s personal and engaging and when The Libertines came on stage I just got this sense that something very special is happening.
I went with another Clash fan, Niall from Leeds and we both looked at each other and thought, very interesting. We both agreed this was a very special band the like of we’ve not seen for 20 years.
At the time we were following Joe Strummer around - to almost every gig. I cried the day my mate Ant phoned up at 4 am on the 22nd December and told me what the world was about to hear. "Who's this?", "It's Ant, Strummer's dead, heart condition they think!". I cried. About 8 am the news channels started broadcasting it. I remember going to those next few Libertines gigs partly in some vague dark musical space broken only by the exciting prospect of Carl, Pete and Co.
I'd spent the last few years watching lots of bands, from boring mega bands to up-and-coming bands, you know the type - all hype; the NME's 'favourite band of the week', the NME's 'favourite band of the year' or the shit band with good connections or the one that the music press or some 'know it all' up-their-backside music journalist (the ones who decided the Clash had had their day) have been flogging on the radio and music press. Whether multimillionaire, household names or wannabes, they were all bland, uninspiring, an extension of some AOR or music journalists ego. When music is so turgid you are forced to keep looking backwards (punk 77) and I wanted to look forwards. Where are the passionate guitar bands? No matter how many gigs I went to we never found them. I taped quite a few between 2000 and 2005 after getting the minidisc player. I wish I could find it?
We'd had Green Day but they were skateboard punk, hit and miss. Then the music suddenly changed overnight with the 'invasion' of The Strokes, who like the Ramones, came over from the United States and inspired a generation of indie-punk guitar bands just after the turn of the millennium.
It was The Libertines who led this UK Vanguard just like The Clash and the Sex Pistols had done 25 years earlier.
Leaving York Fibbers, that tingle and returned. That desire to check where the next gig was and to go along with a great sense of anticipation and curiosity. The bouncing songs, 'a band that mattered', an atmosphere that neither Nial nor I had experienced since the days of the Clash.
I go on to watch them loads of times, probably 20 in total around the Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool area. I probably taped around six of them. It was just a shame they never came to East Lancashire.
And along with them came a whole host of new bands who produce great songs which I have set up a Spotify playlist for the ones that they have.
Like all musical revolutionaries, there are the 'believers, the artisans, the artists but then there are the opportunists. Commerciality before cultural and artistic credibility. Stadiums as soon as possible. Some of these bands slid off into popularity and in my view musical obscurity. Razorlight, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and a few more. They were brilliant when they were fresh - and I saw them all either on support slots or on their first UK outings - but for these bands, it just didn’t last.
I also saw lots of wannabe bands. Lots of them. Hats off for their endeavour. The music press might have bigged them up as 'the next big thing and sadly they probably believed the AOR hype whilst it lasted for 15minutes but many lacked talent - or as happens with such periods - they proclaim they are 'different' and veer off to the self-indulgent music that is insipid or uninspiring. Charmless noise. It may have music to them and they may have believed that they were marking themselves out in the music presses something different, but I couldn’t wait to get in the car and go home.
There were loads of bands of 'one-track bands'. Or bands that produced a few good tracks but just didn’t have the talent to keep it going and most of the bands from the period struggled with the second album. For me, only two bands made it to a second album.
It was a period of tracks and not albums.
The six albums that do stand out are the debut albums by The Libertines, The Paddingtons, Pigeon Detectives, The Enemy, Hard-Fi (and the brilliant dub version) and The Cribs with New Fellas which improved on their first album. A notable mention to The Holloways first album.
Only The Libertines, The Paddingtons nurtured their talent beyond the first album.
Check out the playlist at the top for great tracks.
The scene, certainly around The Libertines, The Paddingtons always had that nod to The Clash and punk. The Libertines supported the Pistols and Mick Jones (The Clash) helped them a lot. Of course, they remade Janie Jones.
This period probably had as many good tracks as the punk period 25 years ago.
Many of the tracks from this period are played over and over again. I Predict a Riot, Chelsea Dagger, Mr Brightside and many more - including many that deserve to be played as often as these but in reality, they have been heard by too few.
It’s a period that should be remembered in British musical history. It should stand alongside the punky written in the 70s, the Beatles era of the early 60s and to a lesser extent cool Britannia of the early 90s.
I’ve done a list of the ones I particularly like including the rarities which are good as the ones listed above.
It was one night when I went to watch the remnants, Babyshambles at Jabez Clegg’s, of The Libertines that I saw this band that Stood out as one of the great bands of this period; the Paddingtons.
The Paddingtons should have released the second album sooner and demos for a third just show how great they were. Their first album First Comes First is a 'proper' punk album - an album you'd happily put on after 'Never Mind the Bollocks' by the Sex Pistols though the cover is a pastiche of The Clash's first album. Not the only time they'd give a nod. Like The Libertines they had talent that would’ve continued so long as they wanted to play.
They were great days and it was great to see them backstage on their musical journey. What struck me about them was just an ordinary decent these people are, proper musicians, proper people who spoke to fans and had no airs and graces.
I went up with them to do the New Years eve Dirty Pretty Things concert at Inverness where Josh was filling in on guitar for them. It was a great period. Carl Barratt was just a great guy. The Paddingtons and The Libertines, two bands that are very close.
It all came to an end but like most things, it drifted away and bands like The Vaccines came along who produced a few good tunes but in isolation.
As they say, pop was eating itself again. If I had a pound for every new band that was never going to get past a couple of tunes I’d be a millionaire. Music produced for themselves and not for the fans and concerts are just a bore.
Stiff Little Fingers are still playing live and remain head and shoulders above most of these bands. Guitar music for the people is in a depressing state in Britain. It’s back to buying a ticket to watch Jake Burns or banging out some tunes from this Indie punk period or some tribute band.
Back then I did take a minidisc to record some of them and now they sit there as a record of the sheer excitement, the thrill.
To have one great period between 1977 and 1984 was fantastic but I’m just as fond of the period between 2001 and 2006. This period appears not to have passed into the annals of musical history like the earlier punk period did at the end of the 1970s. Shame as it deserves to.
I’m left listening to old tapes and that tingle down the spine knowing that there were some special moments on stage. That for that moment, the anticipation, the walk up, we were to be carried away on some musical magical mystery, electrified, exhilarated journey by The Libertines & Co.
Nothing will ever beat The Clash on stage, nothing, for me or millions who saw them, but The Libertines came as close as you are going to get - very close.