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Glastonbury 2025: post your questions for Carl Barât and Pete Doherty of the Libertines
The Guardian is hosting Q&A sessions at Glastonbury’s Astrolabe theatre, including with the notorious Libertines pair – post your own questions below
Their 2002 debut album, Up the Bracket, produced by the Clash’s Mick Jones, remains a seminal release of the decade, with bleary-eyed garage-rock hits such as I Get Along, What a Waster, and the title single, which have lit up indie discos ever since. Eventually the Libertines disbanded in 2004, with Barât forming Dirty Pretty Things and Doherty focusing on Babyshambles. The band returned with 2024’s All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade, which was recorded – completely sober, they say – at the studio they co-founded in Margate, Kent.
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