I was 12 years old in 2002. I had just arrived at a boarding school in England, 2000km from home in Francr, the result of being brought up by a mother as strict but with her head constantly in the clouds. Therefore since the very beginning, she got confused with the weekends exit authorisations. While she was think she was restricting myself as much as possible, I was actually free to leave the boarding house every weekend without her being notified. Well, I took the train to London every weekend where cousins of mine aged 16-17 hid me to sleep at their house so my uncle couldn’t snitch to my mother and they showed me this city. The real London. They said to me: have you ever heard of The Libertines, they just released a single or an EP, it’s great. They put the CD on. I was stunned. What was that. Poetry + guitars + elegance and decadence. “They’re playing live tonight at the 100 Club, we have tickets and we made you a fake ID.” This concert changed my life. And even better, it was recorded and released as a live album 2 years ago. I saw them again two months later at the Marquee, at the Astoria, in rotten apartments, seedy pubs. My cousins followed them like groupies and I just had to follow my cousins. Mummy. I'm almost 35 years old, you still don't know the "mistake" you made and you still think that my weekends were studious, sporty and filled with pension activities. These weekends were worthy of the rock and roll of the Libertines from 12 to 17 years old. Thanks Mom. Thank you Laura and Filippa, bless your fantastic taste in music, your blind as fuck parents and your hormones on fire.
I always worry people don’t understand Peter, he wasn’t born a junkie. He was a wide eyed poet who loved The Smiths and Suede and who after meeting Carl they managed to make their dreams come true for a couple of years, until fame and tabloids reared it’s ugly head. Thank god they’re back to who they used to be these days with the hotel in Margate and regular contact again between the band 🖤
this is exactly like looking back pictures of the best relationship you've ever had, you see how things could have stayed perfect forever, you miss those times, all makes you wanna try again. but you and her fucked it up together, you'll never forget those problems, things never going to be the same.
So young. They all look so young and wreckless. That little nod and smile between Carl and Pete at the end though - that was what the Libertines were about and don't pretend otherwise. ;)
@lisafz yeah, what is it? i saw a video once of pete in a bar (i think) and he was playin it alone with a guitar, and never found it again.... WHAT IS THAT SONG?
Yeah! It's on one of their earliest demos, Legs 11, which they made in 2000-ish. This video: /watch?v=4jSQwoiNNOE is from 1999, when they had Mr Razzcocks on drums, and a cellist.
so not true. he would have wide pupils. cant people understand that he wasnt always a junkie? he was just excited because his dreams came true, thats all.
thought Pete almost sounds gay ? ~any news of this 2002 ...aswell only ystrday seein video 'last of the english roses' (!) ...maybe this (in accent) was to decease +over years meeting an havin Russell Brand in co. ? : D x
I was 12 years old in 2002. I had just arrived at a boarding school in England, 2000km from home in Francr, the result of being brought up by a mother as strict but with her head
constantly in the clouds.
Therefore since the very beginning, she got confused with the weekends exit authorisations. While she was think she was restricting myself as much as possible, I was actually free to leave the boarding house every weekend without her being notified.
Well, I took the train to London every weekend where cousins of mine aged 16-17 hid me to sleep at their house so my uncle couldn’t snitch to my mother and they showed me this city. The real London.
They said to me: have you ever heard of The Libertines, they just released a single or an EP, it’s great. They put the CD on.
I was stunned. What was that. Poetry + guitars + elegance and decadence.
“They’re playing live tonight at the 100 Club, we have tickets and we made you a fake ID.”
This concert changed my life. And even better, it was recorded and released as a live album 2 years ago.
I saw them again two months later at the Marquee, at the Astoria, in rotten apartments, seedy pubs. My cousins followed them like groupies and I just had to follow my cousins.
Mummy. I'm almost 35 years old, you still don't know the "mistake" you made and you still think that my weekends were studious, sporty and filled with pension activities.
These weekends were worthy of the rock and roll of the Libertines from 12 to 17 years old.
Thanks Mom. Thank you Laura and Filippa, bless your fantastic taste in music, your blind as fuck parents and your hormones on fire.
I love this ❤ how great and magnificent!
John is always so serious but when he smiles - his whole face lights up. All that talent on one little couch!!! Lucky couch!
I always worry people don’t understand Peter, he wasn’t born a junkie. He was a wide eyed poet who loved The Smiths and Suede and who after meeting Carl they managed to make their dreams come true for a couple of years, until fame and tabloids reared it’s ugly head. Thank god they’re back to who they used to be these days with the hotel in Margate and regular contact again between the band 🖤
You do realise he’s addicted to heroin here?
pete actually speaks in the same style as carl in this, shows how much time they musta spent together in those days
this is exactly like looking back pictures of the best relationship you've ever had, you see how things could have stayed perfect forever, you miss those times, all makes you wanna try again. but you and her fucked it up together, you'll never forget those problems, things never going to be the same.
One of the best bands of all time
So young. They all look so young and wreckless. That little nod and smile between Carl and Pete at the end though - that was what the Libertines were about and don't pretend otherwise. ;)
"someone died during our set..they just wheeled her out"
"the song we were playing was i no longer hear the music" LOL
i miss them, their friendships, dreams and innocence : (
they all look so very happy and joyful :D great! i love them and wish it would still be like that
Wow Gary said something. You can tell this was the early days!
incredible that pete is singing 'music when the lights go out' all the way back here...
I love Peter's voice in this.
"...playing nursing homes is what we used to do - we played 'I no longer hear the music'..."
hahahaha!
its the first clip i've seen when pete and carl looks pretty decent and genuine happy.
Before pete did drugs
@peepeepoopooman1234 actually no, he was dabbling with drugs just wasn't full speed
Time when Pete was super cute.
He always has been and still is to me 😍😊
The last thing he whispers is "Do us a favour."
pete's hair! he's so adorable ... in every single way.
@Muscle61 Gary is actually from NY. He has dual citizenship--mother is American and his father is English.
I laughed for like 10 mins at that nursing home story, what a way to go!
@pozocobain The song is called Music When the Lights Go Out
oh wow this is really old... cool intie thanx!! An heyy... Pete was actually still able to talk properly here.... :p
such a sad feeling theyre not like that anymore.....memories.
i miss them so
Gary's laugh is so cute and Peter is like a little furry animal
you can't really tell if someones on/not on drugs just by looking at their pupils from a video on youtube through a computer screen though
"we also got a lot of ex members that want to kill us.. that could be problomatic" lol
august 2002 i think. definitely mid 02. 6 months odd after they signed.
ok relative innocence
you can hear the leather
August 02 i think. defiitely looks like mid 02. probs about 6 months odd, after they signed.
looove this
So young.
@manuelisalibertine
obviously not seeing as though they are singing a song off the second album?
It's so weird to me to hear Pete talking so fast and such, ahah
how adorable they are!
the should be back..no...they HAVE reunite again!...for people sake!....the libertines!..they rule!
music when the lights go out
never heard Gary speak until i watched this interview!!!lol XD
i fall in love
@lisafz yeah, what is it? i saw a video once of pete in a bar (i think) and he was playin it alone with a guitar, and never found it again.... WHAT IS THAT SONG?
the coolest and maybe most intelligent junkie on earth(((:
@lisafz you mean music when the lights go out or what a waster?
Yeah! It's on one of their earliest demos, Legs 11, which they made in 2000-ish. This video: /watch?v=4jSQwoiNNOE is from 1999, when they had Mr Razzcocks on drums, and a cellist.
cool vieo, anyone know what a "divy" is
@steveraff01 i thought he said "do this forever"
i know what you mean but it makes me feel so sad to watch it at the same time
Ha ha, I thought I was the only one not to understand, thanks!!
Love the video anyway! Pete seems another guy...
"you cant really step your image you better play for the peeps who dont know your music" what does pete say at the start?
bring em back
why are pete's middle finger nails painted in red?!
great!
This is when Pete was clean, before he even started really
how fast is pete speakin!!! :( makes you cry how much he slurs now... and since when was gary american!! xx
i think that that probably is the "normal" pete, and we sadly are used to the because of the druges slowed down pete.
Great video!
that is least amount o striped shirts i have ever seen with all four of them together
Even pete's accent seems different. Am I wrong?
no but its "and all the drugs and the tubs and the clubs we shared together" so he just didnt want to say it...
¬¬ great video
Music when the lights go out.
petes voice sounds deep!:o and he wasnt fukd up on anythig haha thats amzeing lol love his work
omg....they were so cute
HE looks like Julian Casablancas, omg
Literally just thought that
noooo he doesn’t 😭
so not true. he would have wide pupils. cant people understand that he wasnt always a junkie? he was just excited because his dreams came true, thats all.
when pete was cool
john may aswell not have bothered even showing up
Whats the song they sing at the start?
xKillzzz music when the lights go out
xKillzzz You can use a app called Shazam to find the names of some songs.
Pete's hair looks like Julian Casablancas'
I can smell the leather
Probably wired but who knows, I get like that when I'm hypomanic with all the talking quickly and wriggling around and never shutting up :/
Hannah89 I'll give you that !
..wow.
@MultiBERGZ
ok never mind. i though you tried to call him wierd and spelt it wrong lol
innocence?
is gary american ?
He is
Pete looks beautiful in this. Poor John.:(
SO FUCKIN GOOD
lol :D everytime someone moves their upperbody you hear that "lether-sound"
peter seems so strangely sober in this...
haha bit harsh, it's only a bit of nail varnish!
ex band members who wanna kill us ! that could be problamatic...... cheers 8D
The libertines were just a band
leather jackets :D
crunching.
0:27 Carl ashing in the bottle ...oops!
Is the black fella American?
Carl, is sooo hot!!
1:25 piercing eyes
Pete looks like a young Jimmy Page... cool..!!
great band
cant believe how healthy pete sounds....and now he just mega slurs his words
pete looked healthy :-
new york.
pete still sounds posh in this video..
lol awsome
lol too true
pete seems wired during this... constantly talking, quickly and a bit inaudible at times
it is as much about noses as it is about drugs....now that is funny :)
cough Johnny Borrell cough
@TheQueerTrickyThing 2:29
thought Pete almost sounds gay ? ~any news of this 2002 ...aswell only ystrday seein video 'last of the english roses' (!) ...maybe this (in accent) was to decease +over years meeting an havin Russell Brand in co. ? : D x
That's because his upbringing was posh!!!
@MultiBERGZ
wired? not as wierd as someone who can't spell