The first bit, you know already. The Libertines – the greatest rock and roll story of a generation, a classic British debut rock album in 2002’s Up The Bracket and the capturing of countless hearts with a musical spirit we hadn’t been within touching distance of since Britpop.
Following the messy demise, pastures new with the sadly short lived Dirty Pretty Things who imploded in 2008. Then what?
“I’d had it with bands,” Carl bluntly sums up. “On a number of levels really. Chiefly the democracy thing that I had with bands. It doesn’t really work. I wanted to do it my own way, to test myself rather than working to a shared vision or compromise.”
Now, Carl Barât indeed returns with a new band, The Jackals, to promote their debut record Let It Reign. Let It Reign was recorded in LA and London and was produced by Joby J. Ford (The Bronx).
The video for the debut single Glory Days is made in memoriam of the 306 British & Commonwealth soldiers shot for desertion during the Great War. Some of these men were blameless due to severe psychological trauma, not cowardice, that rendered them physically unable to cope with the horrific scenes they had witnessed.
