Huge noughties group reuniting for first album in nine years following addiction battle
Just past Superior Slots and Bugsy’s Tenpin Bowling, I arrive at an imposing terrace of five-storey townhouses in varying states of repair.
We visit the seven guest rooms designed by Rhiannon Sussex, including the first-floor suite Barât helped style in the familiar black and gold. It has a balcony, sea views and is named the “William Blake” after the poet, painter and figurehead of the Romantic Age. And, finally, Barât leads me through the well-appointed studio, today occupied by singer-songwriter Amy Studt, where he, Doherty, bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell convened to record All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade.
During their wild days, Barât suspected that The Libertines’ insane live shows were populated by “people who just wanted to come and see a car crash”. Barât once squatted in an disused factory on Albion Road, Stoke Newington, which was “run like a concentration camp by a guy called Denzil The Wizard, who tapped into street lighting for electricity”.It’s only fitting, therefore, that The Libertines’ new seaside venture keeps the Albion flag flying in a building of the same dark hue.
The frontmen share most of the writing duties, while bassist Hassell deserves a shoutout for his sublime, er, melody on Man With The Melody. “We felt we were standing in the pantheon of our idols. I bought a picture of James Dean in Camden Market and we added little pictures of “It was all about fallout, heartbreak, chaos, exhaustion,” he says. “I find it hard to celebrate that awful time.For his part, Barât feared he was “contributing to the size of the monster” and he admits: “All the ongoing shenanigans raised the profile till it became an inferno.”
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