Tag: gary powell

Carl and Gary answer the question “What’s the worst gig you’ve ever played?” “How long have we got?!” Carl describes the first demise of the Libertines as a “staggering crumble… that sounds like some kind of dessert doesn’t it?” and says he once went and thanked the Wu Tang Clan for supporting them, lol. (Sorry the sound is so tinny!)

Music When The Lights Go Out: Catching Up With The Libertines’ Gary Powell

“We had a heart-to-heart a little while back, and we said that, no matter what we’ve done and what we’ve achieved, the only reason we had that opportunity is because our fates and paths are intertwined with one another… when it comes down to it, there aren’t any better people I would prefer to hang out with than Carl, John and Peter.”

No new album this year after all then, but if you’re all having a good time just being together, you take your time boys. 

Music When The Lights Go Out: Catching Up With The Libertines’ Gary Powell

We still cut the same jokes we made 20 years ago. We still take the mick out of each other and argue about the same things we would have done 20 years ago. 
“We’re all a little older and all have kids. A lot has happened to us and it would be churlish of me to say we haven’t changed at all. I’ve definitely mellowed, Carl has mellowed, even Peter has mellowed to a degree.
“Peter is constantly writing, that’s what he does. He’s been writing some poetry with a girl in Margate and recording with some other people down there. I’ve been writing some stuff. John sent some stuff over a couple of weeks ago that was great too. Pete and Carl have got together and they’ve been writing together.
“[The hotel project is] here to stay. We’ve been working hard on this, Carl especially. Carl has been working arduously, day in day out, to ensure that surveyors and agents and studio builders have been booked. Carl is the engine. He wanted to do something so we could all go back to the good old days where we could be creative and be together.

Gary Powell in the NME 8/2/18 (x)

We are a little bit mental. We are about to go to Australia! We have also bought a hotel in Margate, which was ranked amongst the top 5 worst establishments in the country on Tripadvisor! It is a fully-functional building that we welcome people who either do or do not like our music to come to. You can say you hate The Libertines, you don’t need to like the music that I do, but you do need to be a nice person. Even if you don’t like the music, you could have a great sense of humour or be the most intellectual person ever. So I could still learn something from you. People can come along and have a drink, create something… whatever. It is a hub. Carl came up with the idea! The studio in it is nearly finished now.

Gary gave a talk at Northampton uni today. He sounds so proud of how crappy the hotel was haha. (x)

Carl & Gary on BBC 6Music 29/1/18

Carl: About the hotel, it’s kind of on the beach, kind of a hotel, more of a guest house, a guest house hotel on the beach, with a bar, with a studio, yeah. It’s been quite some work actually, the last year, just getting the planning and stuff like that, kind of a bit dreary, not really my general day to day things to do, but we seem to have got through it, so I’m excited. We’re all excited!
Gary: This isn’t just about getting ready to start recording, this is actually moving into our own place as well so we’re going to be a bit like oh! Obviously there’ll be a few days of hangovers once we actually do officially move in but after that that’ll be the process of recording and getting a new album out.
Carl: Well the first sort of thing to do for the next album was to get our spot together which I think we’ve done, so we’ve got our dwellings, our studio, our bar, our guest house, all under one roof. Then we can have all of our projects there, family and otherwise, and yeah, that’s what we’re getting involved in and that’s what we’ve made steps to make happen, so that’s the first step, and then the second step will be making the record in that place, making memories there and sort of bedding in, and we’re about to get into that now as well so yeah, watch this space really.