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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Body of Robyn Whitehead, Goldsmith family member who made Road to Albion documentary about singer, found in London flat A member of the Goldsmith family who had made a documentary about the singer Pete Doherty was found dead in a flat, it emerged today. The body of 27-year-old Robyn Whitehead was discovered in a flat in Hackney, London, on Sunday night after paramedics answered a 999 call. Scotland...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Filed under: News , R.I.P. , UK Robyn Whitehead, Pete Doherty 's unofficial photographer and documentary film-maker, was found dead at an east London flat on Sunday Jan. 24, police have confirmed. Whitehead, whose documentary film on the Libertines , ' The Road To Albion ' was in post-production, was found around 8pm, and Scotland Yard have stated so far that the death is not being treated as suspicious....
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
The Libertines reunion has moved a step closer to fruition - Carl Barat is planning to discuss the group's imminent revival with former bandmate Pete Doherty.[...] Read more!
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
THE LIBERTINES reunion has moved a step closer to fruition - CARL BARAT is planning to discuss the group's imminent revival with former bandmate PETE DOHERTY.The...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Vampire Weekend are at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, having sold over 124,000 copies of their sophomore album, Contra, during its first week. Last week’s number one entry, Ke$ha’s Animal, fell to the third spot beneath Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream. [Billboard.com] After performing together during the 2009 MTV European Music Awards, U2 [...]
kingblind (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
Indie kingppins The Libertines could be set to reform next year, if songwriter Carl Barat has his way. The Libertines were spat out by the bowels of London, writing angelic hymns from the city's seedy underbelly. Over the course of two albums the band re-defined what it meant to make music in modern Britain, inspiring almost ten years of copyists. Splitting in 2004, the band have reformed numerous...
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
The new year has barely begun and Carl Barat has already given us a reason to wish it was over. Meaning that Barat dropped a bomb of hope for a Libertines reunion in 2011 while talking to the Evening Standard. Or as he put it: “It’s not definite definite. I can say 2011, but it’s hard to plan the Libertines until next Tuesday. But 2011 is where there’s room for that to happen....
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Clash Music : Carl Barat has suggested that the band will reform next year. Speaking to The Evening Standard the singer claimed: “It’s not definite definite. I can say 2011, but it’s hard to plan The Libertines until next Tuesday. But 2011 is where there’s room for that to happen. So if everything’s all right, then, yeah, it would be glorious to get on the old jacket...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Carl Barat believes there would be "too much furore" if he and Pete Doherty reformed The Libertines.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
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No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
You can't really do the last decade and totally ignore the Libertines, can you? So let's not paint Pete Doherty out of history entirely. From The Libertines self-titled debut album, Carl Barat does a solo reading of Can't Stand Me Now for Rolling Stone. Okay, we're painting Doherty out a little. [Part of Decade Null 2004 ]
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 01/02/2010
“..Music magazine NME has published its list of the top 50 albums of the noughties, as voted for by leading figures in the music industry. British band The Libertines were among those acknowledged as creators of one of the greatest albums of the decade. The band’s debut Up The Bracket, which brought Pete Doherty to fame, was [...]
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
Are The Libertines reforming? Pete Doherty says yes; Carl Barat says no . A-Ha announced plans to decommission themselves , albeit slower than a nuclear power station. Slightly-less-than-super supergroup Them Crooked Vultures told paying customers not to take photos . After the new U2 album sold poorly, Bono pointed the finger of blame - at their audience. Believing The Guardian had slurred his reputation...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
Here are two things we're not at all surprised to report...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
There are not many drummers who've gone on to enjoy a successful solo career, but Libertines drummer Gary Powell looks set to do just that In early November, I interviewed Jon Bon Jovi for the Guardian . He was cool and a total gentlemen. When Jon mentioned he didn't know who Pete Doherty was, I suggested that the Babyshambles man was well worth hearing. In my opinion, both Carl Barat and Pete Doherty...
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