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Post by Tim on Jul 31, 2003 9:37:28 GMT -5
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!  From NME.com "THE LIBERTINES are to re-release debut album 'UP THE BRACKET'. The album, out in its new version on September 8, will include the band's debut single 'What A Waster' and a bonus DVD with videos for 'What A Waster', 'Time For Heroes' and 'I Get Along'. As previously reported, The Libertines’ new single 'Don’t Look Back Into The Sun', produced by Bernard Butler, is out on August 18. The only live UK dates for the troubled band are the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds over the weekend of August 22-24. Co-frontman Pete Doherty is still estranged from the band and was arrested and accused of burglary last Friday (July 25). He was bailed to reappear in court on August 11. Read our exclusive Q&A with Pete in next week’s NME, on sale August 5 in London, and the next day nationwide." Shit! I really didn't want that to happen... so, is it the final goodbye do you reckon, or are Rough Trade blatantly just biding their time in the knowledge that there won't be any more new Libertines material for a while? Bollocks - and after a brand new single too... anyone else think this doesn't look good?  |
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Post by Derek on Jul 31, 2003 11:25:32 GMT -5
I don't think that it has any ominous tidings, considering that Rough Trade did the exact same thing with the Strokes. It's just a way to get suckers to buy the album again. To me, the current situation has nothing to do with it.
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Post by Jim82 on Jul 31, 2003 12:24:48 GMT -5
I dont know what to think of that,
It seems rough trade are trying to get a few more sales, considering the album charted badly on the first release, and the bands popularity has grown since then.
What with all the hype surrounding the band at the moment, with petes side project etc, they probly see it as a good time to make some cash.
What could be worse is if they re-release what a waster. The mention of a video for the track makes me think they will.
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Post by Tim on Jul 31, 2003 12:55:14 GMT -5
Yeah, that's very true, and like Derek said, they did the same thing with The Strokes album (which I must say I hardly noticed) - it just seems strange coming after the release of a brand new single, although if it does well (which it should, it's a fantastic record) then I guess a re-issue of the album makes some sense. I'm probably just reading too much into it.
I really really hope they don't - I do remember reading somewhere that there was a video made for What A Waster at the time, but it's just never really been seen, for obvious reasons... I think that's the case anyway. I'd be gutted if they did re-release it though.
I forgot to say - that Q&A with Pete in next weeks' NME should be interesting to say the least...
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Post by Jim82 on Jul 31, 2003 13:00:54 GMT -5
yeah i wonder when they did that with him?
I cant believe they get the nme a day earlier in london, the north - south divide rears its ugly head in the music press,
im joking
but i never knew that
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Post by Tim on Jul 31, 2003 13:11:38 GMT -5
Yeah, me too - when it said 'Q&A', I thought they meant it was one of those Fannish Inquisition type things - if it's just an interview with him it seems a bit weird that they've specifically made it a Q&A thing... unless they're after 'definitive answers' - NME world exclusive style...
I was thinking yesterday actually, it's strange (but not unsurprising, the NME sticks to BRMC, The Coral and Interpol like glue - or something) that after everything the band have done and all that has happened, there's very rarely proper features on them - I know they've been away on tour and everything, but there could have been more Libs in the rag, surely?!
Oh and nice to see The Libs top of the poll of who people thought should have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize...
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Post by Ali on Jul 31, 2003 17:13:18 GMT -5
For selfish reasons I don't want them to re release 'Waster , I always considered it the song that divided the bigger fans from the not so big ones. If you owned it it showed you'd either been following them from the start or had fawked out the cash to buy it from ebay, or even if you'd just bothered to download it it showed a bit of dedication. It can't be that likely though can it, they'd just have the same problems they had first time round: it can't get played because it has c*** in it, unless they make a clean version (bad idea..) Tim, I think you might be remembering the same mention of a video already existing as me, in something or other it referred to ''the promo videos for Up the Bracket and What A Waster'', I'd thought it was mistake, infact I think there might be a thread about it, from ages ago... As for re releasing the album it does seem it bit odd, they deserve to have sold more though considering their high profile. That might be why they're doing it, if they'd done the same for the Strokes, but we're still waiting for a new single from them. The Good Old Days message isn't ringing so true at the moment.  |
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Post by Tim on Aug 4, 2003 10:32:27 GMT -5
Yeah, that's very true, especially about the reasons why it would be pointless releasing it again, and a clean version just wouldn't work at all, thankfully.
Yeah, that's the mention of the 'What A Waster' video I was meaning, but I can't for the life of me find it now, which is a bit strange - I was sure I'd read it fairly recently as well. I'm pretty sure a video was made though, and like I say, just didn't get seen for obvious reasons. At least we'll be able to see it in its full glory when the re-release comes out. Ho hum.
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Post by clarkuss on Aug 17, 2003 20:52:31 GMT -5
i don;t like the idea as it makes the us version obselete. i bought the single when it came out and to put it on the cd undermines it's release
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