Up The Bracket (20th Anniversary Edition)
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The Libertines
Up The Bracket (20th Anniversary Edition)
[ Rough Trade / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 21 October 2022
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To celebrate the release of their astonishing debut album, The Libertines are releasing a 20th Anniversary Edition on multiple formats.
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.
Up The Bracket, which was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash, takes you on a wondrously poetic journey into the band's mythical world and their fevered dreams of Albion, a land of squalid glamour, liberty, equality, fraternity, gin palaces and chip shops. Quite simply Pete, Carl, Gary, and John created a hugely compelling timeless British rock'n'roll classic debut as relevant now as it was upon its release.
'Up The Bracket' (Remastered) and 'Live at the 100 Club' are included in this double CD release.
Tracks:
CD1 - Album Studio Outtakes]
1. Up The Bracket - Take 4
2. Vertigo - Take 2
3. The Ha Ha Wall - Take 1
4. Horror Show - Take 3
5. Bangkok - Take 1
6. Time For Heroes - Take 3
7. Begging - Take 1
8. What A Waster - Take 1
9. Breck Road Lover - Take 1
10. Never Never - Take 2
11. Tell The King - Take 1
12. The Domestic - Take 1
13. Don't Talk To Me - Take 1
14. The Wolfman - Take 2
15. Radio America - Take 2
16. The Good Old Days - Take 1
17. The 7 Deadly Sins - Take 3
18. Sweets - Take 4
19. Mocking Bird - Take 6
20. Boys In The Band - Take 1
21. Skag & Bone Man - Take 2
[CD2 - Demos/Radio Sessions/B-Sides/Live etc]
1. Vertigo - Demo
2. The Boy Looked At Johnny - Demo
3. Death On The Stairs - Demo
4. Horror Show - Demo
5. All At Sea (Misty) - Demo
6. Wolfman - Demo
7. Plan A - Demo
8. Up The Bracket - Evening Session
9. Boys In The Band - Evening Session
10. Time For Heroes - Evening Session
11. I Get Along/Mayday - Evening Session
12. Jo Whiley - Christmas Live Lounge
13. Skag & Bone Man - Up The Bracket B-Side
14. The Delaney - Up The Bracket B-Side
15. Plan A - Up The Bracket B-Side
16. General Smuts (Demo) - Time For Heroes B-Side
17. Bangkok (Demo) - Time For Heroes - B-Side
18. Mr. Finnegan (Demo) - Time For Heroes B-Side
19. Sally Brown (Demo) - Time For Heroes B-Side
20. The 7 Deadly Sins (Demo) - Time For Heroes B-Side
21. Up The Bracket - Live at The ICA - 3/6/02
22. Mayday - Live at Nottingham Rock City - 30/10/02
23. Begging - Live at Divan Du Monde, paris - 7/11/02
24. The Boy Looked At Johnny - Live at Divan Du Monde, Paris - 7/11/02
25. Death On The Stairs - Alt Guitar Version
