List of Libertines and Babyshambles bootlegs
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UK band The Libertines, and founding member Pete Doherty's subsequent band Babyshambles, have distributed a large number of their sessions online.
It is at times difficult to ascribe a particular session to one band or the other. The first confusing matter is that the Baby Shambles Sessions predate the band Babyshambles and were produced by The Libertines. Secondly, it took a while for Babyshambles to establish themselves as a concrete band, with Pete Doherty the only constant in the line up. Considering the many fall-outs between Pete and Libertines cohort Carl Barât, it may be difficult to ascertain if a session is done by The Libertines without Carl, Pete Doherty (on his own) or Babyshambles. The vast majority of the research that went into this catalogue of bootlegs was produced as an appendix in the book The Libertines Bound Together by Anthony Thornton and Roger Sargent.
The following list is not exhaustive. Some of the credits may be disputable.
[edit] Odessa Studio Recordings
Recorded by: The Libertines
Tracklisting:
- 1. Music When The Lights Go out
- 2. Hooray! For The 21st Century
- 3. Love on The Dole
- 4. Anything But Love
- 5. 7 Deadly Frenchmen
- 6. (TAG)
- 7. France
- 8. You're My Waterloo
- 9. Men In White Coats
[edit] Legs 11
Recorded by: The Libertines
Legs 11 is a compilation of early demos. It was compiled by Carl Barât. The name 'Legs 11' was chosen by their former manager Banny Pootschi, as the cover featured the crossed legs of Darcey Bussell, the "most famous legs in England".
It was a 'swing' session, with Pete feigning a Frank Sinatra-esque vocal style. Bassist John Hassall sings on "Sister Sister" in this session.
"Music When The Lights Go Out" features the former Libertines cellist Vicky. Parts of "Hooray For The 21st Century" later was incorporated into "Narcissist".
The drums in this session were not played by Gary Powell (the most prominent Libertines drummer), but by Paul Dufour who was planning an official release of these and other Libertines early sessions but was stopped in his tracks due to legal reasons.
Tracklisting:
- 1. Music When The Lights Go Out
- 2. Hooray For The 21st Century
- 3. Love On The Dole
- 4. Bucket Shop
- 5. Sister Sister
- 6. Anything But Love
- 7. France
- 8. 7 Deadly Frenchmen
[edit] The Baby Shambles Sessions
Recorded by: The Libertines
The Baby Shambles Sessions is a set of songs recorded by The Libertines while in New York. The singer and guitarist Carl Barât left before completion of the tapes, which were intended for the second album. Bassist John Hassall also lent a hand, playing the bassline on one song, The Man Who Would Be King. It is thought that Barat played drums on some tracks. Doherty then gave the tapes to Helen Hsu, a fan, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She, at his request (a fact he later denied), made the tracks available to the band's fans over the internet. A 3-CD set of these sessions can also often be found for sale on internet auction sites and can also be downloaded for free at Albion Arks. Several of the tracks that feature on the sessions were later recorded and included on The Libertines' second studio album. A few were also later recorded for Babyshambles Down in Albion, and their most recent The Blinding EP.
[edit] Sailor Sessions
Recorded by: Babyshambles, July 2003
More rough recordings, made available around the same time as Chicken Shack Sessions. Contains cameo appearances by some of Peter's musician friends. Cover artwork by Sophie Thunder and mixed by Dean Fragile. The title, 'Sailor Sessions', was dubbed by Fragile mainly because his hometown was Chatham in Kent, a naval port.
Tracklisting:
- 1. Blackboy Lane
- 2. Ha Ha Wall
- 3. Campaign Of Hate
- 4. Killamangiro
- 5. Music When The Lights Go Out, Never Never
- 6. The Whole World Is Our Playground
- 7. Hooligans On E
- 8. What Katie Did
[edit] Chicken Shack Sessions
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, September 2003
Very rough recordings of some songs that would later appear on The Libertines, as well as some that became Babyshambles songs.
Recorded after Doherty had been kicked out of The Libertines due to his increasing drug use.
Tracklisting:
- 1. Begging
- 2. Campaign Of Hate
- 3. Curtain Call
- 4. Curtain Call (Gaks & Enob Mix)
- 5. Man Who Came To Stay
- 6. My Darling Clementine
- 7. Stix & Stones
- 8. Pay The Lay
- 9. Don't Look Back Into The Sun
- 10. Bucket Shop
[edit] Whitechapel Demonstrations Sessions
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, February 2004
Tracklisting:
- 1. Anything But Love
- 2. Dilly Boys
- 3. Love On The Dole
- 4. Another Girl Another Planet ('The Only Ones' cover song)
- 5. The Whole World Is Our Playground
- 6. Smashing
- 7. I Love You (But You're Green)
- 8. What Katie Did
- 9. Skag & Bone Man
- 10. Pipey Magraw
[edit] HQ Sessions Second Wave
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, February 2004
Tracklisting:
- 1. Black Boy Lane
- 2. I Love You (But You're Green)
- 3. Sheepskin Tearaway
- 4. Killamangiro
- 5. Through The Looking Glass/Love Reign O'er Me
- 6. Stix & Stones
- 7. Pipey Obrady
- 8. Lust Of The Libertines
- 9. Do You Know Me
- 10. Wolfman
- 11. Babyshambles Instrumentals
- 12. In Love With A Feeling
- 13. The Last Of The English Roses
- 14. Sheepskin Tearaway/Conversation Diva
[edit] HQ Bethnal Green Demo Session
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, February 2004
Tracklisting:
- 1. At The Flophouse
- 2. Babyshambles
- 3. Pipey Magraw
- 4. Random chit chat and wolf raps (inc. 'Don't Be Shy'/'Ask'/'Back From The Dead')
[edit] Acousticalullaby Sessions
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, April 2004
Tracklisting:
- 1. A Little Death Around The Eyes
- 2. Arcady
- 3. Un Bilo Titled
- 4. I Love You (But You're Green)
- 5. Albion
- 6. In Love With A Feeling (10 seconds)
- 7. East Of Eden
- 8. He Will Fall
- 9. New Love Grows On Trees
- 10. My Darling Clementine
- 11. Back From The Dead (25 seconds)
[edit] Shaken And Withdrawn Megamix
Recorded by: Peter Doherty, August 2004
Several of these acoustic demos would go on to feature on Babyshambles debut album.
Tracklisting:
- 1. My Darling Clementine
- 2. Back From The Dead
- 3. Lady Don't Fall Backwards / Bollywood To Battersea
- 4. The Whole World Is Our Playground
- 5. Hooray For The 21st Century
- 6. Curtain Call
- 7. There is a Light That Never Goes out / 32nd Of December
- 8. Conversation Diva
- 9. Never Never
- 10. East Of Eden
- 11. My Darling Clementine
- 12. There She Goes (A Little Heartache)
- 13. Can't Stand Me Now
- 14. The Ha Ha Wall
- 15. The Ballad Of Grimaldi
- 16, Stix & Stones
[edit] Untitled
Recorded by: Peter Doherty
Tracklisting:
- 1. Can't Stand Me Now
- 2. Pipey Magraw
- 3. Music When The Lights Go Out
- 4. The Whole World Is Our Playground
- 5. Albion
- 6. Arcady
- 7. Black Boy Lane
- 8. Scouser In Space
- 9. Ballad Of Grimaldi
- 10. Love Rain O'er Me / The Saga
- 11. Killamangiro
- 12. Stix & Stones
- 13. My Darling Clementine
- 14. Curtain Call
- 15. Don't Look Back Into The Sun
- 16. I Love You (But You're Green)
- 17. If You Fall
[edit] Stookie + Jim - Bumfest demos
Recorded by: Peter Doherty and Mik Whitnall, November 2006
- 1. There She Goes (A Little Heartache)
- 2. Crumb Begging Baghead
- 3. New Love Grows on Trees
- 4. Unbilotitled
- 5. Unstookietitled
- 6. Carry On Up the Morning
- 7. Cuckoo 1440
- 8. Delivery
- 9. A Fool There Was
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- http://www.albionarks.com Mp3s of all tracks mentioned here. The songs are in the public domain and so are legal to download.
| Carl Barât | Peter Doherty | John Hassall | Gary Powell |
| Anthony Rossomando | Johnny Borrell | Paul Dufour | Steve Bedlow (Scarborough Steve) |
| Discography |
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| Albums and EPs: Up the Bracket | I Get Along EP | The Libertines |
| Singles: "What a Waster" | "Up the Bracket" | "Time for Heroes" | "Don't Look Back into the Sun" | "Can't Stand Me Now" | "What Became of the Likely Lads" |
| DVDs: Boys in the Band | Who the Hell Is Pete Doherty? |
| Books: The Libertines Bound Together |
| Related articles |
| Babyshambles | Dirty Pretty Things | Yeti | Bootlegs |
