After announcing their break-up only a few weeks ago, Dirty Pretty Things have now announced their final show ever. Carl Barat and co. are set to headline the Jail Guitar Doors fundraiser gig taking place December 11th at the Hackney Round Chapel in London.The Jail Guitar Doors charity strives to provide musical instruments to prisoners and was set up by musician Billy Bragg . Dirty Pretty Thi
Carl Barat's post-Libertines bands has decided to call it quits. Carl Barat has said that the band will be pursuing other projects but they have nothing to do with the Libertnes. The band put out the follownig statement about the end of the band: "It is with some sadness we announce the farewell of the Dirty Pretty Things, It's been a glorious three years which we all would gladly live out agai...
(photo by Roger Sargent) Dirty Pretty Things, the band formed in 2005 following the break-up of one of the greater UK rock bands of the last decade is calling it quits. Hanging up their sweat-soaked towels. Er, you get the...
download from" Dirty Pretty Things" sounding as cynical and acerbic as ever!..just havindg a "muse" about them and got this as a freebie from their 'site
The end is nigh... which could well be a good thing. The farewell tour that wasn't supposed to be hits Cambridge. Valerio Berdini witnesses the demise of Dirty Pretty Things.
download from" Dirty Pretty Things" sounding as cynical and acerbic as ever!..just havindg a "muse" about them and got this as a freebie from their 'site
The Midas TouchWednesday, January 10, 2007by Jen TartaglioneIf Dirty Pretty Things’ debut Waterloo to Anywhere had a subtitle it would read, “Long Live the Lust of the Libertines.” The album itself is essentially Up the Bracket Part Two, but it would be unfair to say that it is just a last attempt at keeping the legacy of The Libertines alive; sans Pete Doherty and including a whole new line
Amazing lyrics, screaming guitar, and catchy tunes are what make the band Dirty Pretty Things the band of 2006. Their first album Waterloo to Anywhere has yet to make a name for itself like something such as Rebellion by Arcade Fire, but there is no doubt in my mind that it is one of the top five best albums so far in the 21st century. It starts out with a pissed off song called Deadwood, and t...
Some writing work lies ahead today, but I spent the languid hours of the morning making a mix to a new colleague of mine. This guy is pretty cool. Apart from his significant academic work, he's a vinyl head in his mid-fifties whose main music collector passion is original pressings of Blue Note jazz, but who is interested and knowledgeable about music in general. One night last week, as we were...
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly: if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'ld jump the life to come. But in these casesWe still have judgment here; that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, ...
That Pete Doherty wasn't the talent behind the Libertines....(WARNING video slightly sexually explicit, sensitive souls may want to stop playing at 01:15)
Some writing work lies ahead today, but I spent the languid hours of the morning making a mix to a new colleague of mine. This guy is pretty cool. Apart from his significant academic work, he's a vinyl head in his mid-fifties whose main music collector passion is original pressings of Blue Note jazz, but who is interested and knowledgeable about music in general. One night last week, as we were...
plastic hearts ~ dirty pretty things"erect the gutters and move us in life or buildings and medicines we all make the same mistakes our pitfalls pull us together are you listening?" my heart will ever belong to the libertines, and i definitely have a fondness for the other half, as in mr. doherty. but, i do enjoy dirty pretty things - and seeing them live during their first album tour was a...
we shared our dreamsand nearly everything in betweeni’ll never forget thoselong lost days in a hazewhere we lost ourselves with no apologyall this waiting is just hesitating for nothingand the faultlines all on the wrong side of daylightwhy oh why can’t we change thingsthis is destroying me insideyou know you wanna jump inaugust the new dirty pretty things album is set to come out - i cannot w