Briton Pete Doherty’s group is the first major headliner announced by the Inrocks Festival, the 35th edition of which will be held from February 27 to March 2, 2024 in Paris.
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The Libertines will perform on February 29, 2024 being a leap year, in the CentQuatre-Paris venue. The ticket office opens Thursday at 11 a.m. The Inrocks festival will be the first French stage of the return of the quartet which will release its fourth album on March 8 All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade.
Doherty, unmanageable rock icon of the 2000s
The Libertines, led by the pair of guitarist-singer Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, were one of the British responses to the return of rock in the early 2000s in the wake of the Americans The Strokes. Doherty, now 44, quickly made the front pages of the tabloids, between the incarnation of the sex/drugs/rock’n’roll trilogy and a love affair in the mid-2000s with star model Kate Moss.
The group imploded for the first time in 2004 after two first albums. Its reformation led to a third album in 2015. In 2022, the gang toured for the 20th anniversary of its first opus Up The Bracket. Visiting the Zenith in Paris on this occasion, the Libertines delivered a good set, marked by the comical comings and goings of Doherty’s dog on stage between the amps.
Appeasement in Étretat
After years of wandering, between hard drugs and time in prison, Pete Doherty says he is free of his worst addictions. He settled in Étretat, in Normandy, alongside his wife, the director and musician Katia de Vidas. In March 2022, with the disc The Fantasy Life of Poetry & CrimeDoherty offered a peaceful musical return as a duo alongside French composer Frédéric Lo.
The Inrocks Festival, an event linked to the cultural magazine of the same name, was the last indoor festival in March 2020 in France before the Covid-19 health crisis and the first of its kind to restart in June 2021 after the situation improved. The rest of the 2024 program will be revealed soon.