Peter Doherty Announces New Solo Album 'Felt Better Alive' And Accompanying UK & European Tour
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Peter Doherty has laid out plans for a new solo album.
The Libertines and Babyshambles frontman will release 'Felt Better Alive', his first solo project in nine years, on May 16 via his own Strap Originals label.
Featuring 11 songs, it's led by the strummed, rhythmic country-folk song and title track, which comes with a video you can watch below. Commenting on it, he said:
"It’s quite bouncy, quite country. ‘Dredging the mouth of the Humber’ is a line from Hancock [about coagulated sprinkled sugar in the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes]. The chorus I love, ‘And I’d always planned/To sing in a sweet and soulful way as only cowboys can/But my saddle strap snapped like a dog-chewed tourniquet…’It’s an accurate description of how I feel about certain times in my life, y’know? Treasures of the Sierra Mardre: you set off on this mission for the gold and you just ended up lost in the mountains, being hunted by bandits."
Alongside the news, the singer-songwriter has scheduled his Anywhere In Albion Tour of the UK and Felt Better Alive In Europe Tour for the spring. Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (January 17).
Following the trek, he'll play In It Together festival in South Wales in May, Together Again in Cheshire in July, and Sheffield's Don Valley Bowl in August as part of the touring Rock N Roll Circus.
Doherty released his last solo LP, 'Hamburg Demonstrations', in 2016. He put out 'Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres' in 2019, followed by a joint album with French composer Frédéric Lo, 'The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime', in 2022.
The Libertines, meanwhile, released their fourth studio album, 'All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade', in 2024.
'Felt Better Alive' tracklist:
1.Calvados
2.Pot Of Gold
3.The Day the Baron Died
4.Stade Océan
5.Out Of Tune Ballon
6.Felt Better Alive
7.Ed Belly
8.Poca Mahoney’s
9.Fingee
10.Prêtre De La Mer
11.Empty Room
Peter Doherty Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat March 08 2025 - NEWPORT ICC Wales
Sun March 09 2025 - FROME Cheese and Grain
Mon March 10 2025 - BEDFORD Esquires
Wed March 12 2025 - WIMBORNE Tivoli Theatre
Thu March 13 2025 - BIRMINGHAM XOYO
Fri March 14 2025 - OLDHAM Whittles
Sun March 16 2025 - BRISTOL Trinity Centre
Mon March 17 2025 - LONDON New Cross Inn
Tue March 18 2025 - CATFORD Blackheath Halls
Thu March 20 2025 - MANSFIELD Canvas
Fri March 21 2025 - WATFORD Palace Theatre
Sat March 22 2025 - STOCKTON Arc
Sun March 23 2025 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Wylam Brewery
Sun April 06 2025 - GENEVA Alhambra (Switzerland)
Sat April 26 2025 - PARIS Le Trianon (France)
Wed April 30 2025 - AMSTERDAM Melkweg (Netherlands)
Thu May 01 2025 - COLOGNE Die Kantine (Germany)
Fri May 02 2025 - BERLIN Festsaal Kreuzberg (Germany)
Sat May 03 2025 - LEIPZIG Taubchenthal (Germany)
Mon May 05 2025 - MUNICH Technikum (Germany)
Tue May 13 2025 - BRUGES Cactus Muziekcentrum (Belgium)
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