The Libertines

Up the Bracket 20th Anniversary Edition

Albums will begin shipping around October 21, 2022. 

Up The Bracket arrived like a raging bull in a tired post-Britpop china shop and introduced the world to The Libertines, a new gang of London bohemians, whose ragged tunes, red military tunics, opiated poetry and ‘live now pay never’ lifestyle came to define the millennial angst of the early noughties. At the heart of the band is the blood bond bromance between the ramshackle Music Hall Jagger/Richards, Peter Doherty and Carl Barat, ably assisted by the rock solid rhythm twins John Hassall and Gary Powell. Any bookie worth his salt would have given you short odds on this quartet surviving more than a month or two, given the teetering on the brink lifestyle they chose to lead, but here we are two decades later and our Byronic heroes, though older and wiser, are still fighting the good fight and making music every bit as vital as their debut. The belief, talent and fervour that Doherty spoke of in their earliest manifesto has stood them in good stead.

Up The Bracket, justly considered one of the greatest albums of the noughties, was originally released on October 21st 2002 by Rough Trade Records. The album, a heady stew of indie rock, skiffle, blues, dub and English bucolic pop, was a huge shot in the arm to a largely redundant music scene and helped to inspire the rebirth of guitar music, going on to influence countless artists who followed in its wake.

Up The Bracket, which was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash, takes you on a wondrously poetic journey into the band’s mythical world and their fevered dreams of Albion, a land of squalid glamour, liberty, equality, fraternity, gin palaces and chip shops. Quite simply Pete, Carl, Gary and John created a hugely compelling timeless British rock'n'roll classic debut as relevant now as it was upon its release.

The Double LP and Double CD contain Up The Bracket’ (Remastered) on disc one and ‘Live at the 100 Club’ on disc two. 

The Libertines – Up The Bracket 20th Anniversary Box Set Contentains the following:

•  Vinyl 1 ‘Up The Bracket’ Remastered 2022 (Black Vinyl)

1.    Vertigo

2.    Death On The Stairs

3.    Horrorshow

4.    Time For Heroes

5.    Boys In The Band

6.    Radio America

7.    Up The Bracket

8.    Tell The King

9.    The Boy Looked At Johnny

10.  Begging

11.  The Good Old Days

12.  I Get Along

•  Vinyl 2 - ‘100 Club Live 4/10/02’ (White Vinyl) 

1.   Horrorshow

2.   Vertigo

3.   The Delaney

4.   What A Waster 

5.   Begging

6.   Time For Heroes

7.   Death On The Stairs

8.   Boys In The Band

9.   I Get Along

•  7” Vinyl - Up The Bracket (Blue Vinyl) 

A. ‘Up The Bracket’ AA. ‘Boys In The Band’

•   7” Vinyl - Time For Heroes (Red Vinyl) 

A. ‘Time For Heroes’ B. ‘The 7 Deadly Sins (demo)’

•  CD 1 – Album Studio Outtakes 

1.   Up The Bracket – Take 4

2.   Vertigo – Take 2 

3.   The Ha Ha Wall – Take 1

4.   Horror Show – Take 3

5.   Bangkok – Take 1 

6.   Time For Heroes – Take 3 

7.   Begging – Take 1 

8.   What A Waster – Take 1 

9.   Breck Road Lover – Take 1 

10.  Never Never – Take 2 

11.  Tell The King – Take 1 

12.  The Domestic – Take 1 

13.  Don’t Talk To Me - Take 1 

14.  The Wolfman – Take 2 

15.  Radio America – Take 2 

16.  The Good Old Days – Take 1 

17.  The 7 Deadly Sins – Take 3 

18.  Sweets – Take 4

19.  Mocking Bird – Take 6 

20.  Boys In The Band – Take 1 

21.  Skag & Bone Man – Take 2 

•   CD 2 – Demos/Radio Sessions/B-Sides/Live etc - 

1.   Vertigo – Demo 

2.   The Boy Looked At Johnny - Demo

3.   Death On The Stairs - Demo

4.   Horror Show - Demo

5.   All At Sea (Misty) - Demo

6.   Wolfman - Demo

7.   Plan A – Demo 

8.   Up The Bracket – Evening Session 

9.   Boys In The Band – Evening Session 

10.  Time For Heroes – Evening Session 

11.  I Get Along/Mayday – Evening Session 

12.  Jo Whiley – Christmas Live Lounge 

13.  Skag & Bone Man – Up The Bracket B-Side

14.  The Delaney - Up The Bracket B-Side

15.  Plan A - Up The Bracket B-Side

16.  General Smuts (Demo) – Time For Heroes B-Side 

17.  Bangkok (Demo) – Time For Heroes – B-Side

18.  Mr. Finnegan (Demo) – Time For Heroes B-Side 

19.  Sally Brown (Demo) – Time For Heroes B-Side 

20.  The 7 Deadly Sins (Demo) – Time For Heroes B-Side

21.  Up The Bracket – Live at The ICA – 3/6/02

22.  Mayday – Live at Nottingham Rock City – 30/10/02

23.  Begging - Live at Divan Du Monde, paris – 7/11/02

24.  The Boy Looked At Johnny – Live at Divan Du Monde, Paris – 7/11/02

25.  Death On The Stairs – Alt Guitar Version

•   DVD

HD Videos of Up The Bracket, Time For Heroes and I Get Along. Later with Jools Holland 2002 - Up The Bracket & Time For Heroes. Top Of The Pops 2003 - Time For Heroes and exclusive bonus footage.

Exclusive Extras.

•  Cassette – Early Demos 

1.   I Get Along – 12/01 – Nomis Demo

2.   Time For Heroes – 12/01 – Nomis Demo

3.   Never Never – 12/01 – Nomis Demo

4.   Horror Show – 12/01 – Nomis Demo

5.   Boys In The Band – 12/01 – Nomis Demo

6.   Up The Bracket – 01/02 – Nomis Demo

7.   Begging - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

8.   What A Waster - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

9.   Skint & minted - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

10.  General Smuts - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

11.  Bangkok - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

12.  Mayday - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

13.  Mr Finnegan - 01/02 – Nomis Demo

14.  Tell The King – 25/1/02 - Demo

15.  Death On The Stairs – 25/1/02 – Demo 

16.  Time For Heroes – 1/3/02 - Demo

17.  I Get Along – 1/3/02 - Demo

18.  Horror Show – 1/3/02 – Demo 

19.  Boys In The Band – 1/3/02 - Demo

20.  General Smuts – 1/3/02 – Demo