Taper : Tufty [spzlive@gmail.com]

Rig : Sony PCM M10 (16bit-48.00kHz) + CA STC-9000 / CA-11 Cardioids > WAV > PC > YOU

Sound Quality : Audience

Length : 02:30:58

01. Intro
02. Horrorshow
03. Delaney
04. Vertigo
05. Likely Lads
06. The Saga
07. Last Post on the Bugle
08. HaHa Wall
09. DLBITS
10. The Boy Looked at Johnny
11. Death on the Stairs
12. Boys in the Band
13. Campaign of Hate
14. Begging
15. Music When the....
16. Love is on the Dole
17. What a Waster
18. Time For Heroes
19. Radio America
20. Up the Bracket
21. Good Old Days
22 What Katie Did
23. France
24. I Get Along
25. Can't Stand Me Now
26. Tell The King

Carl Barāt News
The Libertines, Barrowlands, Saturday 28th June

It's too much of a Libertines cliche to start wittering about the good old days, but whatever people came to see, they got. It was a loud, predominantly male crowd, yelling out the lyrics, dancing, beers arcing through the air, and the best word that comes to mind was joyous.

The boys were back, much as before. Pete in hat and leather, braces trailing; Carl digging through the dressing up box to find an old red libs jacket which lasted two songs. John impassive in pinstripes. Gary bearded, barechested.

A generous gig by Libertines standards, the band delivered 25 favourites from the back catalogue including a rare outing for Love Is On The Dole. The tempo rose and fell - ripping straight in with Horrorshow and some quieter moments with Radio America and later with Katie, which saw Carl uncurling the mic from its stand and serenading the crowd. We are used to Get Along heralding the end of events but we had Can't Stand Me Now and Tell the King before curfew as an extra treat.

Pete was confident and bantered easily with the crowd; Carl with the usual reservation at first, warming up as things progressed. They mic shared, they conferred, they lit and shared their cigs, all warmly received by their admirers.

The onstage waitresses were an unusual departure, but the rest of it was what people had come to see and there were no disappointments. A one man stage invasion went off calmly, almost routinely, and there were some comedy moments including Pete's attempts to phone someone's mum; the gig had something for everyone, those who wanted to see it all again and those who had despaired of ever seeing it at all.

The Libertines seem to invite a lot of comment and controversy but we will leave all that for others in due course - we don't really care why they did it or whether it was the same as Barrowlands 2004; all we saw were a lot of happy faces and that's good enough for us. Roll on tomorrow, can't wait to do it all over again! 8 hrs