With old alleys and balladesque melancholy, the British prove that they can also inspire sober & stricken.
Happy customer hurried ahead of the concert, it affected the most prominent member of the Libertines. “Drugs Adé, I only drink tea” rhymed the picture newspaper over the photo of a chubby smiling, smiling Peter Doherty with gray hair, fine moust bags and slide hat, which then also flushed the message to be transmitted.
In a world full of bad news, this is finally a good thing, especially with a view to the details. The man, who once stole various instruments to his bandmate Carl Barâ to finance his drug use, now lives as a family man in Normandy, changes his daughter’s diapers, dreams of a farm, and reports the following about the current tour of his band: ” After the concerts we celebrate completely differently. We sit down, the dog is there and we drink tea. My hunger for destruction is completely gone. “
The surprise
These words are still in the ears, then you are a little scared when Doherty on the stage of the Munich Tonhalle on Saturday, February 8th, can be ploped into a well -padded swivel chair. After it was still standing in Berlin and Wiesbaden, he will only leave this comfortable seating furniture on the advice of a doctor called “Jürgen or Jörg” (o-sound Doherty) to vote for his guitar, the reasons for this should be somewhere in the back area.
And so this concert has to do without the stage dynamics between Doherty and Barât, which is known to be that the two put their heads together on the microphone and play the balls as guitarists and singers. Of course, that’s a shame and a bit irritating. But Barât has always liked to accommodate Doherty, because a few guitar riffs in the knees and crouched dancers are still the lightest exercise at swing chair height.
The expressiveness of highly gifted ten years
Musically, however, these four are rarely appeared. The slipstream melodics of her early indie rock still get doherty and barât with the expressiveness of highly gifted ten-year-old after her first beer, which sometimes a familiar sweet (“what katie did”), sometimes downstick stars in punk (“horror show”) brings with it.
The Libertines 2.0
The magic of this concert also lies in the contrast between these fibrated excesses and the more elaborate songs by Libertines 2.0, for which Barât mostly sits down on the piano. The thousand tears deep love of love “You’re My Waterloo”, the soul wound “Merry Old England”, which for a cozy shower on the skin from “Shiver”-all of this transports a finely woven melancholy that makes it clear, The fact that the Libertines between the old snot and new ripeness have remained still the free spirits that they have been appreciated since the golden years of indie rock.