By bandweblogs on Aug 25, 2009 in Bands, Music News, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Bands on Twitter, EPs, Exlovers, Kurran And The Wolfnotes, Pete Doherty, Tour Dates | 0 Comments
London five-piece exlovers have announced that they will be back on the road in October and November 2009, for a co-headline tour with Kurran And The Wolfnotes.

The tour, which begins in Norwich on 21st October and culminates in Cambridge on 6th November, includes a very special Levi’s One to Watch show at London’s Borderline on 22nd October …
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By bandweblogs on Mar 17, 2009 in Albums, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Myspace, Myspace Music, Pete Doherty, Track Listings, youtube | 0 Comments

MySpace Music, the world’s leading online music portal, proudly presents Peter Doherty’s debut solo album ‘Grace/Wastelands’ …
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By bandweblogs on Mar 12, 2009 in Albums, Bands, Featured, Free Mp3s, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Babyshambles, Dot Allison, Graham Coxon, Pete Doherty, The Libertines, youtube | 0 Comments

Think you know Peter Doherty? Vilified by the world’s press and written off at every turn, Peter Doherty finds himself constantly at the centre of a media maelstrom, a frenzy that bombards his private life with allegations, accusations, invasions and intrusions …
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By Jenny May on Feb 3, 2009 in Bands, Reviews and Commentary | Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, Drew McConnell, Jon McClure, Live Reviews, Lowkey, Mongrel, Oxford, Pariz 1, Pete Doherty, Reverend and the Makers, Shows, Tor Cesay | 0 Comments

It was good timing to have been able to, on the same day, review Pete Doherty’s upcoming debut solo album, Grace/Wasteland, and then later that night – last night – to go out and see Mongrel play live at the O2 Academy (was Zodiac; Carling Academy) in Oxford …
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By Jenny May on Feb 2, 2009 in Albums, Bands, Featured, New Releases, Reviews and Commentary | Tags: Babyshambles, Dot Allison, Graham Coxon, Pete Doherty, The Libertines, Track Listings | 1 Comment

I’ve been waiting in the wings for awhile now for Pete Doherty to release a solo album, and finally that day has come. For me, his best performances have been the times that I’ve seen him play on his own with just an acoustic guitar and his voice. However, with debut solo album Grace/Wastelands, there’s a mix of some of the acoustic Pete Doherty that is endearing and raw and also songs filled with the colorful musicianship of a full band …
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By bandweblogs on Jan 16, 2009 in Albums, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Babyshambles, Graham Coxon, Pete Doherty, The Libertines | 0 Comments

The first solo album by singer-songwriter Peter Doherty (Babyshambles, The Libertines) is complete, and scheduled for North American release on Astralwerks on March 24, 2009, the label announced today …
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By Jenny May on Nov 16, 2006 in Bands, Music, New Releases, Videos | Tags: Carl Barat, Fundraisers, Guillemots, Janie Jones, Joe Strummer, Music, Musicians, Pete Doherty, Recording, Strummerville, The Clash, youtube | 0 Comments
It’s because of the new Babyshambles & Friends release, a cover of The Clash’s brilliant song “Janie Jones” that brought the new cd Janie Jones (Strummerville) to my attention. There’s more behind the appropriately named cd than meets the eye though, as it’s to benefit the charity organization The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music.
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