Up the Bracket Listening Partyをテキトーにまとめる
the CharlatansのTim Burgessが開催しているリスニングパーティのThe Libertinesの1stアルバムUp the Bracket編
Ten minutes... #UpTheBracket on #timstwitterlisteningparty
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Seems like yesterday, a lifetime ago we fell into the grooves of this record with pure hearts and filthy hands… and literally half of less than 50p.
The name “Up the Bracket” refers to the old cockney saying ‘A punch up the bracket’, meaning ‘a punch up the throat’.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
...We wanted intimacy and immediacy, whether positive or otherwise, we wanted to tell it how it was and this is what we came up with.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
You all ready? #UpTheBracket
Virtigo
Virtigo... Hitchcock and Hancock were the inspirations here, plus a girl I met on a canal boat when I was 15, Karima… #timstwitterlisteningparty #UpTheBracket
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Stories of hapless romance, forever walking under ladders, like calamity James from the Beano, or wailing beneath balconies, and finding bravery in unlikely places. #timstwitterlisteningparty #UpTheBracket
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Vertigo: I remember vividly and fondly getting the tube to the studio from the original Albion Rooms, Teesdale Street
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
The sessions always had a strict break at 6pm so Mick Jones could watch the last night's episode of Eastenders which he religiously recorded - we had dinner and played ping pong#timstwitterlisteningparty
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
Yeah! He’d eat held his dinner - the. Go for a walk around the block, come back and finish the rest!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Death on the Stairs
Death on the Stairs... This has always been my favourite song of ours.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I was too drunk to stand in the Albion Rooms and @petedoherty made me write a riff to the verse chords, he recorded it on his Nokia 3310 as the answerphone message so’s we were able to remember it the next day and finish the song.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
The lyrics came from an old poem we wrote and a little added inspiration from the Times Literary supplement we kept next to the toilet. #timstwitterlisteningparty #UpTheBracket
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Go on Carlos!!
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
Horror Show
Horror Show. Still too much of a horror to play, this one sometimes. Fucking fast. We filmed an amazingly bad video in the 90’s of this in St Pancras Graveyard and an abandoned mental hospital in Dalston with Pete’s then girlfriend. It looked like a student re-make of Nosferatu.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I remember the three of us played it sans bass player for reasons I shan’t go into, at our Rough Trade showcase where we got signed. Pete and I were swapping bass and guitar. It’s a wonder we did get signed looking back… #timstwitterlisteningparty
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Oh god, do you still have it???
— claudia (@titaniaxx) April 14, 2020
I wish
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Near Graham Road?
— Katie Ledger (@Whatkatiediddo) April 14, 2020
Yeah
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
#horrorshow was the first thing I ever played with Peter and Carlitto! We rehearsed it at what was then the Islington. Arts factory near the Holloway Road!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Time for Heroes
Time For Heroes: How did Breck Road Lover end up on the back of the Up The Bracket sleeve? I don't think Mick Jones even heard the song...
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
I suppose it was the old @libertines habit of planting seeds in peoples heads.
They were supposed to see the back of the album and go 'ah - 'Breck Road Lover' either Pete or Carl obviously has working class inner city Liverpool roots etc...
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
Time For Heroes... This one does what it says on the tin, brings back too many memories to possibly do justice here, riots and dreams etc… #UpTheBracket #TimeForHeroes
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I remember when I met @grahamcoxon and he told me he’d seen me on Top of the Pops and had loved my ‘anti guitar solo’. I’ve no idea what he meant but I was fucking happy.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I still fuck up the anti solo pretty regularly as it goes.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Boys in the Band
Boys in the Band... This one takes me back to the time when we were working behind the bar at Filthy McNasty’s and the vodka and cokes (@thestrokes) had hit it big and we felt a little left out. #timstwitterlisteningparty
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
...And someone sold one of their girlfriends some acid or something or nothing… Hard to explain really.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I never thought it would have inspired as much nudity as it ‘as done over the years. Peter can often be seen forgetting his lines onstage to this one whilst surveying the crowd.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
...And someone sold one of their girlfriends some acid or something or nothing… Hard to explain really.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I never thought it would have inspired as much nudity as it ‘as done over the years. Peter can often be seen forgetting his lines onstage to this one whilst surveying the crowd.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Boys In The Band: I remember recording Boys In The Band - Everything was so fucking loud I had to stuff Tampax in my ears
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
#boysintheband still the most fun - and challenging to play! Great song. Never get tired of playing it!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Guitars sound awesome in the middle 8 of #boysintheband
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Radio America
Radio America... Such a sweet and innocent ditty and a nod to the @Libertines’ skiffly beginnings, taken with a massive dose of drugs ‘n liquor and subsequently mangled.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
I fell asleep and banged my head on the mic and Danny Goffey of @SupergrassHQ came running in unannounced in a pair of green tights if my hazy memory serves.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Love the line about President Clinton and the Queen. Works now with “Orange faced President” instead.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
serious tuning at the end there
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Radio America: One time @carlbaratmusic had dabbled in let's say 'hard narcotics' we came up with 'Skag & Bone Man' and that also happened to be the day we were due to record the sentimental ballad 'Radio America'
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
I remember it well. He was late - like Pete style lateness....disgracefully fucked up.
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
I recall everyone thinking it most amusing - a reaction i never encountered after many late entries having been bang on the gear many a time thereafter
#radioamerica my favourite track on the album. John on stand up bass, band waiting for Carl to arrive. He’d been out drinking all nite and rolled up to the session still wasted. Perfect vibe!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Listen hard for when @carlbaratmusic Falls asleep during recording and his head bumps on the mic.... he he he #radioamerica #timstwitterlisteningparty
— John Cory Hassall (@JohnCoryHassall) April 14, 2020
Up the Bracket
Up The Bracket. @petedoherty pic.twitter.com/GHcrc4xphC
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
The song 'Up The Bracket' - Written in Dalston Lane at Maraid's gaff was about standing up to muggers and has a secret coded bar chord historical theme...
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
#upthebracket think this was the track that kind of gave us our sound. Plus we spent so much time by the #caledoniaroad it ain’t funny! #dallasburger
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Tell the King
Tell The King... This one starts with a creepy Jarvis Cocker impersonation, “Got a little secret for ya” which wasn’t meant to be left in. You can’t get more fairy tales and romance than this with an acerbic nod to the tabloids of the time.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Legend has it that there is a version out there with Jai Stanley doing the vocals, which frankly knocks the spots off the album version.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
....take a certain La's track - possibly/possibly not the melody always finds me (timeless melody) for the verse...
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
....Insert a chorus straight out of The Smiths 'I want the one i can't have' and stream through the core a defiant lyrical theme akin to 'hard to explain' by the vodka and cokes
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
You can hear him fall of his stool half way through the session on the album.
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
What a drugged up mess he was that day
#telltheking took about three days to record! I couldn’t play it in time! Kept quite about it though and no one gave me any jip about it either!!!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Is that why you never play it live now?!
— Doctor Bass (@Dr_Bass) April 14, 2020
No. We play it in the odd occasion, I think it’s more because we haven’t really rehearsed it.
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
This is one of my favourite songs #telltheking#timstwitterlisteningparty
— John Cory Hassall (@JohnCoryHassall) April 14, 2020
The Boy Looks at Johnny
The Boy Looked at Johnny... Rotten, not Borrel. I remember one of the technitians at the rehearsal room sneered “Don’t you know who I think I am” at me. He was right.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Love the li-de-di moment. Actually quite pertinent if a Londoner happens to find themselves homesick in the Big Apple.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
#theboylookedatjohnny remember #mickjones dancing to this - and I think #dannyGoffey from #Supergrass coming to the studio dressed in a green super hero leotard!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
Begging
Begging... These little kids on a Kings Cross estates used to take the piss out of us as we sauntered by in our charity shop finery en-route to rehearsals shouting “You lot are begging mate.” And so it became rather a thing amongst.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
And @gdogg27 gets a (very fine) moment to showcase his unrivalled drum solo prowess...#timstwitterlisteningparty #UpTheBracket
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
This one does cut deep though about one of the bands sister’s time on the unmentionable drug. Used to bring a tear to my eye to sing. This middle 8 used to have the lyrics ‘Mozart’s off his face, stumbling round in cyberspace’. So we cut them out and just had the music.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Begging: Mick Jones made 'big fat white spliffs' they looked just like cigarettes in Film noir - i remember him being completely freaked out when our friend 'Welsh Pete' (the self-proclaimed biggets Clash fan) came to the studio and showed him his Clash tattoo across his chest
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
BIggest!!
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
The Good Old Days
The Good Old Days... Still as true as the day she was penned. These are the good old days. It’s a fucker they changed Bodecia’s name to Boudica though. Really fucks the song up if you sing it like that.#TheGoodOldDays #UpTheBracket
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Apparently she’s buried under platform 9 of Kings Cross Station. That may explain a thing or 2 with the place. Also, they say Merlin is buried under Filthy McNasty’s.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
The Good Old Days: We also recorded a never used version of Wolfman; where Wolfman recorded inimitably 'you're from the estate - you've got enough on yer plate' and Mick said 'he's not a nice boy like you is he Pete!!'#timstwitterlisteningparty
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
The Good Old Days: We also recorded a never used version of Wolfman; where Wolfman recorded inimitably 'you're from the estate - you've got enough on yer plate' and Mick said 'he's not a nice boy like you is he Pete!!'#timstwitterlisteningparty
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
I love the fact that #thegoodolddays has a life of its own now! It’s still the same track, it’s just been retrofitted...
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
I Get Along
I Get Along... So proud of how this one came out. Mick Jones nailed it (and so did Bernard Butler). You can hear my whisky bottle (Famous Grouse) being chucked in the metal ashtray at the end of the take.
— Carl Barat (@carlbaratmusic) April 14, 2020
Job well done. #UpTheBracket
fuck 'em
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
その他
How late was the decision to drop Breck Road Lover from the album ? I do hope you release it one day. Also how many other tunes that never made it ?
— Shane Alexander (@Djsa80) April 14, 2020
Don’t remember to be honest but I do Denver we recorded 20 tracks for the album! Was a great session!
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
I also remember @carlbaratmusic and I both fancying Mick Jones' eldest daughter...she said she'd 'go to the pictures' with whichever it was out of the two us that recorded the immortal line 'all so rudimentary'
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
I do believe it was our first ever full-on fist fight that drew blood....at least until the 2nd album was begun!
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
One of things I remember most about this recording g session was meeting #mickymost the legendary producer from the 60’s reading...
— gary powell (@gdogg27) April 14, 2020
We wrote and recorded and released Up The Bracket whilst thinking we were getting on and getting old - in fact - in reality - we were younger than the dew drops on winter lawn and frozen just as fast#timstwitterlisteningparty #UpTheBracket
— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 14, 2020
Reminds me of Ruse rehearsal studio in Old Street... we certainly rehearsed these songs up!#timstwitterlisteningparty
— John Cory Hassall (@JohnCoryHassall) April 14, 2020
This is all recorded pretty much live apart from vocals and some guitars.... Mick Jones... all about the vibe!
— John Cory Hassall (@JohnCoryHassall) April 14, 2020
...Micky Most (recorded all @Donovanofficial 60's music) was in the next room reading yachting magasines. Hurdy Gurdy Man. Legend.
— John Cory Hassall (@JohnCoryHassall) April 14, 2020
