Dirty Pretty Things to Split After Fall Tour
Photo by Roger Sargeant
Warning: the sadness you may feel while reading this story is directly proportionate to how British you are.
According to NME.com, Dirty Pretty Things-- the UK rock band that formed in 2005 in the wake of the demise of DPT leader Carl Barât's late, occasionally great band the Libertines-- have announced that they'll part ways after completing a European tour that kicks off this weekend in Glasgow. In a message on their website, the band said, "It's been a glorious three years which we all would gladly live out again, but it is time for us to try new things." But, they add, "(not The Libertines)."
The band left us with two studio LPs-- 2006's Waterloo to Anywhere, and the recent Romance at Short Notice-- and the nagging feeling that, yeah, whatever happened to Pete Doherty really was a shame.
Dirty Pretty Things:
10-04 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
10-05 Edinburgh, Scotland - Old Picture House
10-07 Manchester, England - Academy 2
10-08 Leeds, England - Metropolitan University
10-09 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
10-10 Birmingham, England - Gatecrasher (Carl Barat DJ set)
10-11 Newcastle, England - Keele University
10-11 Leeds, England - Glasshouse Republic (DJ set)
10-12 Cambridge, England - The Junction *
10-12 Cambridge, England - Soul Tree (Didz Hammond and Gary Powell DJ set)
10-13 Norwich, England - UEA *
10-14 London, England - The Roundhouse *
10-16 Oxford, England - Academy *
10-18 Southampton, England - Guildhall
10-18 Southampton, England - Soul Cellar (Didz Hammond and Gary Powell DJ set)
10-23 Hatfield, England - Hertfordshire University
10-24 Bristol, England - Academy Bristol (Carl Barat DJ set)
10-26 London, England - Dirty South (Didz Hammond DJ set)
11-01 Essex, England - University of Essex Student Union
11-02 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Mandela Hall *
11-03 Dublin, Ireland - The Academy *
11-05 Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue *
11-06 Wicklow, Ireland - Greystones Theatre *
11-07 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh *
11-14 Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
11-15 Oslo, Norway - Garage
11-16 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
11-17 Malmo, Sweden - Kb
11-19 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
11-20 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
11-22 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
11-23 Hasselt, Belgium - MOD
11-24 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rockhal
11-25 Paris, France - Bataclan
* with Apollo Sunshine
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