Passed the half way mark - however you count them - and moving into a new phase of the tour. The intensity of the first 'round' (10 gigs in 12 days and a lot of trekking across the northern bits of the UK) complete, we settle into a mid tour lull - nothing on consecutive days now til Ireland, with long tranches of time to do other things... erm ( Read more... )

Bulletin 3 - On the Road - Manchester October 7th

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Waltzing in Scotland - Glasgow and Edinburgh October 4/5th

It’s stupid o’clock in the morning and I’ve just got back from Scotland. It’s likely that someone has already posted up stuff about these two gigs, but for the record, here’s a small bulletin.
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I'm not going to try to do a proper review of every night of this marathon event, but I will do my best to share little bulletins and then do a proper write up at the end. So here's Act 1, Scene 1 from Preston tonight...

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Dirty Pretty Things covered Nirvana's 'In Bloom' during their Main Stage performance at Reading Festival today (August 23).Carl Barat and co played a high-octane set to the crowd, though opted not to include any songs by the frontman's old band The Libertines ( Read more... )

A brief update on tonight's wonderful DPT show in Sheffield - more to follow later in the week, but in the meantime...

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heello! first time I've ever poked my head above the dirty pretty parapet - excitement. Formerly a hard core libs fan, I recently fell back in love with carlos and discovered dpt. not quite sure how I ever lived before I knew that didz hammond existed ( Read more... )

DPT at Kentish Town Forum ( Read more... )

mary on the DPT forum posted some excellent photos and a setlist. No, Anthony didn't bleach his hair ('dude, Pete did it, why can't I? Goddammit, Carl, hand me the bleach!' 'No, Stan! I'm doing this for your own good! STAY OFF THE HAIRDYE!' 'But Carl--' 'Look! Pringles!' 'Dude! Sweet!'); he was at a wedding, hence the hunktastic blondish ( Read more... )

from the forum:

Setlist

Wondering
Doctors & Dealers
Gentry Cove
Chinese Dogs
Deadwood
Bloodthirsty Bastards
YFLI
Good Old Days
One to my left
The Enemy
Playboys
Gin n milk
Bang Bang

encore:

In the City
No signal
Burma
Get along