Photos by Frank Leppard
The Libertines performed an exclusive matinee gig for delighted fans at The Oval Bandstand and Lawns in Cliftonville yesterday (August 17).
The band, which owns the Albion Rooms hotel and Wasteland bar in Eastern Esplanade, followed the gig with an after-party at their venue.
The Libertines hotel and recording studio The Albion Rooms was bought by band members in 2017 and opened in two phases across 2019 and 2020.
Co-frontman Carl Barat also teamed up with chef and restaurateur, Gizzi Erskine; partner and Cruel Hearts Club’s’ front woman Edie Langley, and music industry insider Ronnie Traynor to open LOVE café in Margate last year. The Marine Gardens site will also house Justine’s music venue downstairs.
Fellow frontman Pete Doherty now lives in France with wife and Puta Madres bandmate, Katia de Vidas. Libertines band member Gary Powell is an ambassador for Stop Hate UK and bandmate Gary Hassall he lives in Denmark with wife Line Hassall Thomsen.
The Libertines are currently on a 20th anniversary tour for 2002 album Up the Bracket.
The Oval Bandstand and Lawns is managed by community organisation GRASS Cliftonville CIC.
The group, which is earmarked to receive a total of £500,000 from the £22million fund, plans to remove the old toilet block at the site and replace it with a pavilion with café, community room/s and public toilets.
What happened to the two comments that were on this thread the other day?
Yes James , I wondered about that too ! Both my and the other comment just suggested that Pete Doherty’s new appearance and obvious weight gain might be due to prescription medication .
What’s wrong with that bearing in mind his well known and reported health issues and it’s a fact that some medications incl antidepressants can cause weight gain
That’s not my MY opinion , it’s a fact , so what’s with the Big Brother style censorship on that yet there were some vile and nasty comments made by one very unpleasant and twisted character the other day on this platform regarding Manston Airport which were allowed to stay up on this platform when they really should have be removed immediately .
Talk about double standards !
Rockstar, the same thing happened the other day about the PRIDE march and photos on IoTN
One minute the comments were there and in my opinion there was nothing really nasty said, only fact. The same thing happened then, all just disappeared.
If they had been really rude and insulting as you say, that would be different. But I don’t think they were.
Whatever happened to
Free speech.
Obviously both comments on that site and this have been censored.
Woe betide anybody, who says anything about the Oval Bandstand events, that is deemed unsuitable to the editor.
The other person commenting the other day besides you, was Peter Checksfield.
He did not say anything that was insulting.
To be fair , Mr Checksfield did suggest that Pete Doherty had been eating a lot of pies .
Well , he did ! Lol
I wasn’t offended by that , and one might say that comment in banter with someone you know but in these P.C days that we now live , I suspect the Big Brother editor on this platform/ site deemed it “not acceptable “. and maybe that’s why the other 2 non offensive comments got taken down when removing Mr Checksfield perceived offensive personal comment about Pete Doherty
I have just been reading the comments on the Manston Airport platform.
I am absolutely ‘gobsmacked’ by the utterly insulting comments by DFL Lives Matter ti other peoples comments on that thread.
Never in my entire life, and maybe I am not in this awful ‘real’ world have I read so many insulting comments.
Now that persons comments should have been deleted.
I just can’t believe it!
The person sounds deranged!
Well, about 10 mins ago I made comments about the person on the Manston airport platform, actually mentioning his pseudonym.
I said the person making the insulting comments to others seemed ‘deranged’ and that his posts should be deleted.
I posted it, but nothing has come up.
James , which headline feed did you put your entry that you are referring to under ?
I ask as the Manston Airport headline feed has been closed to any more entries yet the offending entries of which there are many by this unpleasant individual are still up there for all to see ….. and to be offended by !
To be fair I can see why that feed might now be closed as the comments were getting way out of control !
James , which headline feed did you put your entry that you are referring to under ?
I ask as the Manston Airport headline feed has been closed to any more entries yet the offending entries of which there are many by this unpleasant individual are still up there for all to see ….. and to be offended by !
To be fair I can see why that feed might now be closed as the comments were getting way out of control !
I posted on this.
You were right about the VERY unpleasant person.
I have never read anything like it.
The person should have been taken off the site as their insults were not about the feature, but directed to the others in the thread making comments.
Unbelievabley insulting!