Dirty Pretty Things Call It A Day

Carl Barat & his posse are splitting up.

Read the band's full statement at NME.

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Dirty Pretty Things Respond To Radiohead's 'Rainbows'

The band tells NME: *"I wanted to give the [new] album away on the internet like Radiohead. I saw what they did and said, 'Oh, that’s great, let’s do that too.' But [the rest of the band] told me straight off that it wasn’t going to occur. Ah, well."*

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Doherty & Barat Team Up To Defeat BNP

Via ContactMusic: *Rockers BABYSHAMBLES and DIRTY PRETTY THINGS have joined forces to urge music fans not to vote for the British National Party (BNP) in today's (03May06) UK local elections.

Babyshambles and Dirty Pretty Things - fronted by former Libertines Pete Doherty and Carl Barat respectively - have teamed up with Love Music Hate Racism to ask fans to vote for any party but the far-right BNP.

A posting on Dirty Pretty Things' website reads: "The BNP currently have 49 local council seats around the UK, and are standing over 750 candidates in the elections. "Low turnout has often been a major factor in BNP local election wins, and sometimes just a handful of votes can make all the difference."*

Nice to see Pete engaging in something positive. Learn more about Love Music Hate Racism HERE.

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