Given that a health scare forced Radio 4 to cancel their November tour, the band are playing a special London gig at ULU on 17
Feb ahead of the release of new single 'Nation' on 21 Feb. The band's Anthony Roman told CMU: "During The Libertines US tour in October, I experienced stomach ailments that got increasingly worse. Upon doctor's orders we were forced to take two months off. Now that I've been given the all-clear, we are very excited to return to the UK."
The new single comes complete with remixes by Mad Professor / Darkfantom
& Stilzy, featuring Lee Scratch Perry, something the band, as serious fans of dub and reggae, are very excited about. Roman:
"The idea of working with Lee Perry seemed so ridiculously improbable that I thought the label was joking! Everyone in
Radio 4 has been big fans of his music for a long time. We used to listen to 'People Funny Boy' every day and thought about adding it to our live set. Blackboard Jungle is one of my favorite dub records ever and the tracks he did with Bob Marley are the best things Marley did by far - check the version of 'Sun is
Shining'. I even named my cat after Scratch Perry!"