
Rough Trade Records
The Libertines - Up The Bracket (20th Anniversary Box Set)
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To
celebrate
the
release
of
their
astonishing
debut
album,
Up
The
Bracket,
The
Libertines
are
releasing
a
20th
Anniversary
Edition
on
multiple
formats,
through
Rough
Trade,
on
October
21st
2022.
In
addition
to
a
remaster
of
the
original
Up
The
Bracket
album,
produced
by
Mick
Jones
(The
Clash),
the
Super
Deluxe
Edition
also
includes
a
remarkable
65
previously
unreleased
recordings
including
many
original
demos,
radio
sessions
and
live
recordings
all
helping
to
chart
the
making
of
Up
The
Bracket,
plus
a
live
recording
from
the
100
club
in
2002.
It
also
contains
a
60
page
book
with
a
forward
by
Matt
Wilkinson,
new
interviews
with
the
band
by
Anthony
Thornton
and
many
unseen
photos
and
memorabilia.
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,
justly
considered
one
of
the
greatest
albums
of
the
noughties,
was
originally
released
on
October
21st
2002
by
Rough
Trade
Records.
The
album,
a
heady
stew
of
indie
rock,
skiffle,
blues,
dub
and
English
bucolic
pop,
was
a
huge
shot
in
the
arm
to
a
largely
redundant
music
scene
and
helped
to
inspire
the
rebirth
of
guitar
music,
going
on
to
influence
countless
artists
who
followed
in
its
wake.
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.
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