The Libertines have returned with their first new album in eight years.
Pete Doherty and Carl Barat’s band have dropped new single ‘Run Run Run’ and confirmed their new record ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is due to land on March 8 while they are also planning to celebrate the launch with a series of intimate shows at their hotel – The Albion Rooms in Margate, Kent – in December.
Pete said: “We’re over the moon, the ball is in the back of the net, and I’m chuffed for the lads! I feel like we’ve completed a cycle of some kind as a band, and finally now we can add these songs to the setlist, because we’ve got some bangers in there. Now we’ve opened the hotel and used the studio ourselves and it’s all worked out – more Libertines records? I should hope so!”
Carl added: “Our first record was born out of panic, and disbelief that we were actually allowed to be in a studio; the second was born of total strife and misery; the third was born of complexity; this one feels like we were all actually in the same place, at the same speed, and we really connected.”
The record is the band’s first release since their 2015 record ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’.
‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ was recorded in the studio at their hotel over four weeks in early 2023. The title is a nod to the The Albion Rooms’ seafront location and the venue also features in the cover art.
Anyone who pre-orders the album will get the chance to buy tickets for the band’s show at the Margate Lido on December 9 and 10. The event is described as “two days of special acoustic and electric live shows by The Libertines”.