29 September 2024
Band: THE LIBERTINES
Track: Music When The Lights Go Out
Album: THE LIBERTINES
The LP celebrated its 20th birthday
last month on, 30 August.
It’s one of the best ever compositions of British lads
Peter Doherty & Carl Barât. A romantic torch song.
9 June 2020
‘Blending cherry-liqueur lyrics, bubblegum-kneecap bass electrics, goth-heavy
drum compactions & hi-rise guitar sculptures’.
That’s exactly how London’s swirling dance ‘n’ roll addicts BUGEYE sound like.
They’re about to unleash their debut album READY STEADY BANG! I guess the
record’s title says it all. Expect fuel for all 24-hour party people among us. But
most of all fuel to (hopefully) celebrate the end of the unreal lockdown months
we all experienced.
So far the band shared four jitterbug-eye corkers. Four hot stuff harbingers for
a sweaty Saturday Night Fever Blast. Four shake your booty rippers. Four B-52’s
love shack injections. Glorious times ahead, ladies and gents! Let’s start the hip-
swaying foreplay right here…
– BLUE FIRE –
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– WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT –
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– ELECTRIC –
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– DON’T STOP –
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BUGEYE: Facebook
Peter Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, UK on 12 March 1979. Happy 40!
For some time in his career (2000-2010), the singer/songwriter was more (in)famous for being a junkie and being convicted for drug charges far more than he put records out. But it seems like those dangerously hedonistic days are behind him. His last BABYSHAMBLES album (so far), the pretty good Sequel To The Prequel appeared in 2013. Two years later he reunited THE LIBERTINES with his lifetime friend Carl Barât for their comeback album Anthems For Doomed Youth. His second solo LP Hamburg Demonstrations saw the day of light a year later, in 2016, and next month he will launch the debut longplayer of
his new band PUTA MADRES. Quite some activity for the troubled artist. To celebrate his fortieth birthday I chose three rather smooth tracks showing the man’s touching side. Here we go…
* FLAGS OF THE OLD REGIME (a tribute to his close friend, the late Amy Winehouse)
* MUSIC WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT (from The Libertines self-titled second LP)
* UNBILOTITLED (from Babyshambles second LP ‘Shotter’s Nation‘)
PETER DOHERTY: Facebook