Peter Doherty Confirms 'Felt Better Alive' In-Store Shows, Releases New Song Calvados
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Roger Sargent
Peter Doherty has shared a new song, Calvados.
The uplifting, acoustic guitar-led track, complete with strings, draws inspiration from Normandy, where The Libertines and Babyshambles frontman lives, and is described as, "a paean to the fine apple brandy" produced there. He said:
"Where I live there’s a fellow in town, he’s got a shop that specialises in Calvados and ciders; the apple juice becomes cider becomes Calvados. He took me on a tour of all the old Calvados makers, in his van, place to place, staying with them. It’s that story.
"The line ‘Slow and steady is the way!/The way it was, the way it is…’, that’s how it is. These farms have been there for generations. You can’t hurry it, you wait for the apples to grow, you wait for the seasons to change, it’s not a laboratory. And at the end you get this incredible elixir. Fire water!"
The song serves as the second preview of Doherty's first solo album in nine years, 'Felt Better Alive', due out on May 16 via his own Strap Originals label.
Doherty shared initial details of the record, as well as its title track, in January alongside news of his Anywhere In Albion Tour of the UK and Felt Better Alive In Europe Tour in the spring. Tickets are on sale now.
He'll follow up those dates with a Spotlight Show at The Great Escape Festival on May 14, showcasing his Strap Originals label, before celebrating the record at five new in-store gigs in Leeds, Liverpool, Nantwich, Kingston and London between May 16 and 21. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Thursday (February 27).
He'll also appear at In It Together festival in South Wales in May, ahead of slots at Together Again in Cheshire in July, and Sheffield's Don Valley Bowl in August as part of the touring Rock N Roll Circus. Tickets for those dates are on sale now.
Peter Doherty Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat March 08 2025 - NEWPORT ICC Wales
Sun March 09 2025 - FROME Cheese and Grain
Mon March 10 2025 - BEDFORD Bedford Esquires
Wed March 12 2025 - WIMBORNE Tivoli Theatre
Thu March 13 2025 - BIRMINGHAM XOYO
Fri March 14 2025 - OLDHAM Whittles
Sun March 16 2025 - BRISTOL Trinity Centre
Mon March 17 2025 - LONDON New Cross Inn
Tue March 18 2025 - CATFORD Blackheath Halls
Thu March 20 2025 - MANSFIELD Canvas
Fri March 21 2025 - WATFORD Palace Theatre
Sat March 22 2025 - STOCKTON ARC
Sun March 23 2025 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Wylam Brewery
Sun April 06 2025 - GENEVA Alhambra (Switzerland)
Sat April 26 2025 - PARIS Le Trianon (France)
Wed April 30 2025 - AMSTERDAM Melkweg (Netherlands)
Thu May 01 2025 - COLOGNE Die Kantine (Germany)
Fri May 02 2025 - BERLIN Festsaal Kreuzberg (Germany)
Sat May 03 2025 - LEIPZIG Taubchenthal (Germany)
Mon May 05 2025 - MUNICH Technikum (Germany)
Tue May 13 2025 - BRUGES Cactus Muziekcentrum (Belgium)
Wed May 14 2025 - BRIGHTON TGE Beach Site Fri May 16 2025 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club [NEW]
Sat May 17 2025 - LIVERPOOL Jacaranda [NEW]
Mon May 19 2025 - NANTWICH Civic Hall [NEW]
Tue May 20 2025 - KINGSTON Pryzm [NEW]
Wed May 21 2025 - LONDON Rough Trade East [NEW]
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