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Carl Barat announces solo album, book and tour
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 13 August 2010
No wonder Carl Barat didn’t get around to rehearsing with The Libertines for their upcoming reunion shows until this week, it seems he’s had a lot on. In the next three months he’ll play those shows with the band, release a solo album, publish a memoir and head out on a solo tour.
The eponymous album will be released via Barat’s own label, Arcady, on 4 Oct, with the first single from it, ‘Run With The Boys’, out the same day. A week prior to that he will publish ‘Threepenny Memoir’ through Harper Collins, a collection of stories and reminisces from his life written in themed chapters.
His solo tour then begins on 15 Oct at Coalition in Brighton, finishing up at The Scala in London on 27 Oct.
Speaking to Xfm, Barat said of his solo album: “I was so relieved. It was my first sort of guilt-free project. There’s no baggage that comes with the whole band thing any more. It feels quite liberating. I’m really happy with the record. It’s the first record I’ve made that I can go back and listen to straight away. It’s the one which is the biggest departure from what I’ve done in the past. The subject matter of the song is about giving that life up. I thought it’s a nice way to start moving on”.
The album and book releases will be funded by that previously announced £500,000 investment deal with Power Amp Music, which takes hard cash off city types and invests it directly into artist projects, like these.
