The Libertines – Up The Bracket

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Track Listing / LP1/CD1 – Up The Bracket (Remastered)VertigoDeath On The StairsHorror ShowTime For HeroesBoys in the BandRadio AmericaUp The BracketTell The KingThe Boy Looked at JohnnyBeggingThe Good Old DaysI Get Along LP2/CD2 – Live at The 100 Club HorrorshowVertigoThe DelaneyWhat A WasterBeggingTime For HeroesDeath On The StairsBoys In The BandI Get Along Up The Bracket arrived like a raging bull in a tired post-Britpop china shop and introduced the world to The Libertines, a new gang of London bohemians, whose ragged tunes, red military tunics, opiated poetry and ‘live now pay never’ lifestyle came to define the millennial angst of the early noughties. At the heart of the band is the blood bond bromance between the ramshackle Music Hall Jagger/Richards, Peter Doherty and Carl Barat, ably assisted by the rock solid rhythm twins John Hassall and Gary Powell. Any bookie worth his salt would have given you short odds on this quartet surviving more than a month or two, given the teetering on the brink lifestyle they chose to lead, but here we are two decades later and our Byronic heroes, though older and wiser, are still fighting the good fight and making music every bit as vital as their debut. The belief, talent and fervour that Doherty spoke of in their earliest manifesto has stood them in good stead.