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Libertines comeback in Hyde Park interrupted by crowd crush | Libertines comeback in Hyde Park interrupted by crowd crush |
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Pete Doherty and Carl Barat produced a typically chaotic performance as the Libertines returned to England for the first time since their reunion. | Pete Doherty and Carl Barat produced a typically chaotic performance as the Libertines returned to England for the first time since their reunion. |
The Libertines, playing at the latest British Summer Time gig in Hyde Park in London, were interrupted part-way through their second song, Boys in the Band, when the 60,000-strong crowd were asked to spread out due to a surge as the indie rockers opened. | |
Doherty made an impromptu appearance on drums during the first 10-minute interlude, playing percussion on a rendition of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army and then strumming his guitar to the Foundations' Build Me Up Buttercup. | |
The audience were asked to stop throwing fireworks and flares during the first few minutes of the set. | The audience were asked to stop throwing fireworks and flares during the first few minutes of the set. |
Doherty also used one of very few interactions with the audience to pay tribute to Queens Park Rangers football club, the Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and Gerry Conlon – who as one of the Guildford Four was wrongly imprisoned for IRA pub bombings in 1974 and died last month – during a hit-filled set, the band's first in the capital for more than four years. | |
Barat and Doherty put their once much-discussed personal differences aside as they frequently shared a microphone and embraced mid-set as the sun went down. | |
The set included crowd favourites such as Can't Stand Me Now, Don't Look Back into the Sun and What a Waster before further interruptions – mid-song – as Barat was instructed to request that fans stop climbing the towers of the PA system. | |
A singalong of the pre-school staple the Hokey Cokey closed the show. | |
The band also used the gig to announce two further London concerts, at Alexandra Palace on 27-28 September. | The band also used the gig to announce two further London concerts, at Alexandra Palace on 27-28 September. |
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