Romance At Short Notice by Dirty Pretty Things

The sophomore album for the indie rock band from England headed up by ex-Libertines guitarist Carl Barat. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2008-07-01 Provider: Metacritic

Dirty Pretty Things To Do Prison Gig

Dirty Pretty Things are set to play a one-off gig in London's Pentonville prison on bank holiday Monday.The band, founded by former Libertin

Published: 2007-08-21 Provider: Contact Music

Hot Issue Hits and Misses: The Killers and the Cooper Temple Clause

Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). For the next week, we’ll be taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody’s cultural thermometer is accurate all the time). Hit: Once upon a time, before Brandon Flowers grew a moustache and discovered Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone named the Killers Hot Band (it was 2004). “Now, rock bands are actually starting to make people dance instead of elbow each other,” Flowers said. Perhaps he was on to something: Hot Fuss went platinum three times, and its more anthemic follow-up Sam’s Town sailed past the million-sold mark, as well. Miss: The British press created their own hot fuss around the Cooper Temple Clause (Rolling Stone named the band Hot Metal in 2002), but they never truly found their niche in the States. They lost a member to Dirty Pretty Things and eventually split in April after frontman Dan Fisher called it quits.

Published: 2007-10-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: RS 10/18/07: Kid Rock (The 2007 Hot Issue)

Fricke’s Picks: Lobby Loyde

When Australian guitarist Lobby Loyde died of lung cancer on April 21st at age sixty-five, that country lost its first homegrown guitar hero. Born John Baslington Lyde in Queensland in 1941, he was a founding architect and guardian spirit of Aussie garage rock and heavy music for more than three decades. Loyde’s playing — direct, muscular, frenzied — on Sixties hand-grenade singles by the Purple Hearts and the Wild Cherries and his bruising early-Seventies LPs with Coloured Balls also made him a long-distance inspiration to American fans such as Henry Rollins and Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus. None of those records were originally issued here, and Loyde never performed in the U.S. A recent series of deluxe import reissues will leave you wondering why. The ‘65-’67 singles and woodshed-fidelity demos on Benzedrine Beat! (Half a Cow) are everything Loyde cut with the Purple Hearts, a furious mod-R&B band modeled on the Yardbirds and the Pretty Things. But the Hearts’ distinguishing intensity was Loyde’s combination of terse, rhythmic attack and dynamic-swordplay leads, like Eric Clapton dogfighting with Jimmy Page. Loyde’s driving strum and flourishes, heightened with high-speed tremolo, is a big reason why the Hearts’ ‘66 single “Of Hopes and Dreams and Tombstones” is an Aussie-garage landmark. Loyde is on only eight tracks of a new Wild Cherries anthology, That’s Life (Half a Cow). But those ‘67 and ‘68 A and B sides are all explosive, freak-beat soul. Loyde doesn’t solo at length, but the dirty boom of his outbursts in “That’s Life” and his echo-drenched screams in “Krome Plated Yabby” blow through the lumpy production with psychedelic vengeance. (The rest of That’s Life is demos, etc., by earlier lineups — and no minor rave-up.) Loyde disciples AC/DC took Aussie power boogie to the world in the Seventies — but onl

Published: 2007-06-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Fricke's Picks

Dirty Pretty Things Perform At Fopp

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 27: Gary Powell, drummer of Dirty Pretty Things, looks on from side of stage as the rest of the band performs at the music store Fopp September 27, 2006 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Published: 2006-09-27 Provider: ViewImages Keywords: Waist Up, Performance, UK, England, London, Band, Looking, Resting, Store, Music, Stage, Drummer, Arts Culture and Entertainment, Dirty Pretty Things, Side View, , Gary Powell