Face Of Cheam

So a day after my two borderline trips I was up in soho again for The Dirty Pretty Things. Carl Barratts band have a new album out in July and unfortuanately they played most of it. Normally at DPTs gigs you get a few Libertine songs (well ones that Barrett wrote anyway) but not this time and he seemed obssessed on promoting the Dirty Pretty Things as a band rather than just him, with other members taking vocals and their turn in the spotlight. This is all very well but he seems to forget that most of the fanbase are there cause of him. Some of the new songs sounded quite catchy and it's probably worth buying the album and the songs from the first album, Deadwood and Bang Bang Your Dead did sound exceptional. However, by concentrating on a set that most of the audience did not know made him lose a connection with the audience. Least he didn't seem bleary eyed as when he was when I last saw him on a stage at Clapham!