Peter Doherty Announces Dates For UK Solo Tour & Tickets
Monday, 24 January 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Following on from the highly successful and long awaited Libertines reunion last year, Peter Doherty has announced he will play his acclaimed solo show across UK venues in May.
The quest for utopia still propels Peter in everything he does. It started with The Libertines - Peter ‘n’ Carl on the good ship Albion, sailing devotedly through a life with no restrictions, where “if you’ve lost your faith in love and music then the end won’t be long”. Millions joined the adventure - spellbound, enraptured and completely won over by the idealism of an enterprise so impulsive and exciting that it changed the course of British music at the turn of the new millennium. London was radiant in the splendour of The Libertines’ reign, and Peter Doherty was the people’s poet.
With Babyshambles, Peter Doherty was free to test the limits of his creativity. His band - sometimes capricious, always electrifying - swagger through styles and sounds to create the perfect blend of organised chaos as a backdrop to Pete’s studied lyrics; the distillation of his thirst for poetry and literature. With two albums, Babyshambles defied their critics to become everything that rock and roll in the 21st Century should be: dangerous, provocative, edgy and unpredictable.
After years fronting iconic bands, Peter Doherty released his debut solo album ‘Grace/Wastelands’ in 2009. Recorded over the space of a year as Pete split his time between his homes in Wiltshire and Paris, and finally recorded for posterity in Olympic Studios in London enlisting the help of The Smiths and Blur producer Stephen Street. The album, which was critically acclaimed and was a top 20 hit in the UK album charts, is a brave exploration of one man’s soul, and an excavation of a heart left desolate.
Peter Doherty will play the following UK shows. Tickets are onsale this Friday at 9am.
May 2011
Tue 3rd May 2011 - Leamington Spa Assembly Rooms
Wed 4th May 2011 - O2 Academy, Leicester
Thu 5th May 2011 - O2 Academy,Bristol
Fri 6th May 2011 - O2 Academy, Oxford
Sun 8th May 2011 - Cambridge Junction
Mon 9th May 2011 - Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Tue 10th May 2011 - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Wed 11th May 2011 - Southampton University
Fri 13th May 2011 - U.E.A, Norwich
Sat 14th May 2011 - HMV Institute, Birmingham
Sun 15th May 2011 - O2 Academy, Liverpool
Tue 17th May 2011 - O2 Academy, Newcastle
Wed 18th May 2011 - Academy, Manchester
Thu 19th May 2011 - O2 Academy, Leeds
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