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The Libertines are cock-a-hoop to announce the release of a new single, “Shiver”, taken from the band’s forthcoming new album, All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade. 

Peter Doherty and Carl Barât co-write Shiver: Carl “Peter had a song, and I had a song, and we mashed them up and did it collaboratively.”

Peter: “I would probably find it difficult to work out who did what because we were both there the whole time through its creation. It should really be called ‘The Last Dream Of Every Dying Soldier’, but everyone liked the title ‘Shiver’.”

The video for “Shiver”, a Bergmanesque seaside funeral of a pearly king, shot in stark black and white, stars the Libertines in their sharpest charcoal threads alongside a cast of several characters who appear on the sleeve art for All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade. The video was directed by Alex Brown (La Roux / James Blake) and shot in Cliftonville, Margate and at The Libertines’ hotel, The Albion Rooms. It is the third instalment in a series of Margate-themed videos, following on from the first single “Run, Run, Run” and “Night Of The Hunter.”

The Libertines will also be recording a session at BBC Maida Vale Studios later this month for broadcast on Radio 2 ‘Piano Room’ in February.

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors/Charli XCX/Becky Hill) and recorded at The Albion Rooms in Margate. Recorded in just four weeks during February and March ’23 and finished over seven days at La Ferme de Gestein Studios in Normandy, with additional production and mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat (Lana Del Rey/Liam Gallagher/Paul McCartney).

Having stormed the Lido in Margate for two shows in December, The Libertines play the following club shows over the next few months, all of which sold out within minutes of going on sale.

JANUARY

23rd TUE Stockton Arc

24th Wed Liverpool Cavern Club

25th THU Milton Keynes MK11

27th SAT Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach

28th SUN Derby Hairy Dog

29th Mon Lincoln Drill Hall

FEBRUARY

11th SUN Falmouth Pavilions

12th Mon Southampton Engine Room

14th WED Stoke Underground

15th THU Leeds The Wardrobe

16th FRI Glasgow Oran Mor

The Libertines are Peter Doherty – vocals/guitar, Carl Barât – vocals/guitar, John Hassall – bass guitar and Gary Powell– drums. The band have released three albums: Up The Bracket (2002); The Libertines (2004); and Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015).