The Reunion - Part One

Seven years, five albums and countless column inches had all boiled down to this. The first public performance for The Libertines. Wednesday 25^th August was the date, the HMV Forum the venue and at 9:30, the four slightly older band mates took the stage and ripped straight in to a version of Horrorshow that would make even the most skeptical of fans realize that this isn’t one last cash filled hurrah, oh no, this was it, this is what it always would be, this is the raising of the good ship Albion and with a new found energy maybe this time they will make it to Arcadia.

 

Having been signed up for Reading and Leeds festival the excitement between fans as to what warm up shows would be played was pretty much a fever pitch. Expectations of impromptu gigs at the Rhythm Factory never materialized and with only a few weeks to the festivals word came that the band had only just started rehearsing. Now call me old fashioned but if I’m preparing for one of the most crucial weekends of my musical career, the kind that could bring euphoria like that seen with The Specials last year or the utter appalling showings as seen when the Beatles reformed in 1995 (so I’m told), then I think I would like start dusting off the old song book a bit sooner than 2 bloody weeks before hand. But hey, that’s just me and maybe, just maybe that’s why I’ll be sleeping in a tent at Reading this year and the Libs will be sleeping in a bigger tent...of money!

 

I digress, last week the news everyone was waiting for was released, The Libertines would be playing a one off show and the only way to get tickets is to enter a ballot. A mad rush ensued people like me would sign up everyone I could get my hands on, and after initial rejection I managed to get a ticket, even though it was upstairs standing, nothing would spoil this great occasion. And as it turns out, all you need is a few like minded people and in the furthest corner of the Forum we had created our very own little ‘pit’.

 

The set was all about business, no larking about no stage dives just a pure focus to play the songs in the best possible way they could, and boy did they get a bingo. Every track was a reminder of the good old days, but as Pete says, ‘there are no good old days, these are the good old days,' and nothing could be truer. If this is to be a mere warm up to greater things to come (new songs maybe) then I for one will be at the front of the queue, boarding pass in hand ready to sail into that sunset.

 

 

 

Set List

'Horrorshow'

'The Delaney'

'Vertigo'

'Last Post On The Bugle'

'Tell The King'

'Boys In The Band'

'Music When The Lights Go Out'

'What Katie Did'

'Can't Stand Me Now'

'Death On The Stairs'

'The Ha Ha Wall'

'Don't Look Back Into The Sun'

'Time For Heroes'

Encore

'Campaign Of Hate'

'Begging'

'Lust Of The Libertines'

'What Became Of The Likely Lads'

'The Good Old Days'

'Up The bracket'

'What A Waster'

'I Get Along'

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