The Libertines reunite for Reading

THE LIBERTINES reunite for their only two shows anywhere in the world. The band will be receiving "around £1.5million" for the performance.

THE LIBERTINES came to prominence at the onset of the noughties and it's fitting that this year's Reading and Leeds Festival will see in the new decade with a performance from one the most important British bands of the past twenty years.

The Libertines are to reform after years of speculation to play Reading and Leeds Festival as the original four-piece with duel vocalists and guitarists Carl Barat and Peter Doherty, drummer Gary Powell and bassist John Hassall.

The band gave the world a kick in the proverbials, they played their own game, their own way, by their own rules and consequently paved the way for plenty of imitators but never equals.

They split in 2004 and Carl Barat went off and formed Dirty Pretty Things with Peter Doherty doing likewise with his Babyshambles ensemble. These, their Only Shows Worldwide are unmissable for any music fan.

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