[Dixielandjazz] Rockers & Dixieland

[Steve Barbone]

Check out the next to last paragraph in this review. Good heavens, these
delinquents are incorporating "Dixieland" into their program? :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

Brit rockers not afraid to get down and Dirty

Boston Herald - By Jed Gottlieb - Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Carl Barat may have ditched his drugged-out former Libertines mate Pete
Doherty, but after Sunday night¹s burst of boozy, British rock ¹n¹ roll fury
at Great Scott, it¹s clear he has issues to work out on his own.
   
Barat and his new band, Dirty Pretty Things, took the stage in a haze of
cigarette smoke and keyed-up cheers from the capacity crowd. Immediately,
the band blasted into³Deadwood,² the first cut off Dirty Pretty Things¹
debut, ³Waterloo to Anywhere,² with Barat shouting, ³Away away/We¹ll have it
today.² 
    
His arm in a chic scarf sling - Barat broke his collarbone after taking a
drunken spill off a motorcycle in Taiwan a few weeks ago - the singer led
his band through 15 equally forceful songs in 58 minutes.
   
When the Libertines broke up and Barat and Doherty parted ways in 2004, it
seemed clear Doherty was the misunderstood, troubled genius of the band. Two
years later things aren¹t as certain.
    
Doherty is looking less misunderstood and more troubled lately. Barat,
however, who quickly regrouped with Libertines drummer Gary Powell and
guitarist Anthony Rossomando and ex-Cooper Temple Clause bassist Didz
Hammond, is showing signs of becoming a wild and charismatic frontman. Now
all he needs are a few more songs.
    
For $15, fans got to hear nearly every song in the Dirty Pretty Things
catalog. The band played 10 of the 11 songs on the U.S. version of ³Waterloo
to Anywhere² and a couple of new songs and old Libertines tunes, most
notably a rushed rave-up of ³Death on the Stairs.²
    
Barat exploded with anger and energy for ³Gin & Milk.² The band rocked some
feedback on the night¹s longest jam with a four-minute ³Last of the Small
Town Playboys.² Rossomando even blew some Dixieland trumpet on the single
³Bang Bang You¹re Dead.² There were no extended guitar solos or long pauses
to tune up; breaks in the action only came when one of the guys needed to
light up another cigarette, take a swig or mumble a thank you.
    
Though a hip dive such as Great Scott fits Dirty Pretty Things¹ image, don¹t
expect the band to be playing a club this small next time around.