The Libertines

Recently I've started listening to some music that I haven't listend to in awhile. One band that I've been listening to a lot are The Libertines and I decided to share with you their music so maybe you can experience the great tunes that comes from this band. The Libertines are an indie garage rock band from Great Britain. They started around 2000 and consist of some of the most artistic, talented, don't care about anything attittude guys that I've ever seen. The band has 4 band members who are Pete Doherty(guitar and vocals), Carl Barat(guitar vocals), Gary Powell(percussion), and John Hassall(bass). The band was founded by the two frontmen Pete and Carl and right from the start you can tell that these two would be perfect frontmen for each other. The band started playing in small venues in Europe but don't get the idea that just because they're small they don't have the energy of huge concerts. The band would get on stage and right away the fans knew what to expect. The crowd would start preparing because right when one of the frontmen would play they're dirty heavy guitar chord, (a perfect example of their heavy dirty guitar progressions would be their song "Horrowshow") the crowd would just go wild and thats when the crowd surfing would begin. After the band started making a name for themselves and created a big fanbase they started touring all over the world, places like Japan and USA. They started getting their music out all over the world and by the time of the release of their first album "Up the Bracket" they had a big enough fanbase to make the album a hit. They even ended up playing a on the David Letterman show to get their music out to the world. Once the fanbase of the band grew and grew they started playing bigger shows. Now even though these shows were a lot bigger than the venues they had the exact same energy. What I love about this band is they played their heart out everytime, it didn't matter if they were in front of a million people or in front of 10 people they always played for the fans, and thats what they cared about. They're concern wasn't money or popularity, it was playing their music for their fans and that was the bottom line. The band later released their second album titled "The Libertines". The band recieved band of the year in England, and even though things were looking great the band ended up separating. This was mostly because of a drug addiction of Pete Doherty one of the frontmen for the band. The song "Can't Stand Me Now" from their second album tells the story of the troubles between Pete and the band. The band was only able to release two albums but they were two the most incredible albums that I've heard. There's one quote that I think summarizes the band in one phrase, and thats from their song "I Get Along" it goes "people tell me I'm wrong fuck em"