The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Reformed Libertines to play Inverness’s Ironworks venue
The Libertines will perform in Inverness in three months as they continue to make their comeback.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday from 9am for the show at the Ironworks venue on September 18.
Co-frontman Pete Doherty will appear with three bandmates, Carl Barat, Gary Powell and John Hassall and perform tracks from their latest album, Anthems for Doomed Youth.
Doherty said: “There’s so much that we never wrote before. Like ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’ – I always knew we had something like that in us, and it really broke my heart, that maybe the band was gonna’ finish forever, without us ever having written it.”
Anthems for Doomed Youth, a reference to a work by war poet Wilfred Owen, was released by the group in late 2015 after a 12-year absence from the studio.
Even many die-hard fans thought it would never be made, and that its creators would not manage to sort out their differences long enough to scale the heights of their first era together.
But the four members of the group reconvened in July 2014 for a headline act at Hyde Park in front of a staggering 65,000 people.
That night crowd-surging chaos caused their performance to be halted on safety grounds.
During his stay at a rehab centre in Sri Racha, Thailand, Doherty was joined by his partner, Carl Barat, for the first in a series of creative meetings which spawned the 11 new tracks for the album.
Since then, the Libertines successfully filled in the Friday headline slot at Glastonbury in 2015 after the Foo Fighters pulled out. They also played a set at T In The Park last year.
Doherty added: “We’re completely blessed that things have worked out this way. I just feel there’s more to come.”