Caught Live - Pete Doherty

Seeing Pete Doherty play an intimate gig in the town where the phrase "Chav" as apparently born was always going to be a raucous affair.
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Tap 'n' Tin's Dean Goes On The Record - Medway Standard

An exclusive interview with the man who organised The Libertines reunion gig.
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Ikara To Get Punky - Kent Messenger

Raucous punk rockers Ikara Colt are heading for Chatham, fresh from touring with amen.
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Record Makers - Kent Messenger

There are few people who can disagree the last year was pretty spectacular for one Chatham pub.
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Multi-storey Music - Kent Messenger

The Tap 'n' Tin is one of Medways most popular pubs. On Friday nights the pub is packed to the gunnels with people cramming into either the live music area in the pool room downstairs, middle floor bar area with side annex usually featuring a guest DJ and the third floor where old and new alternative indie music is played.
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Poster Girl - Face Magazine

Sophie Thunder makes flyers for her mates bands. But if you include Pete and Carl from The Libertines, you get to do some pretty high-profile scribblings.
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Number 1 Live moment of 2003, according to NME - The Libertines @ The Tap 'n' Tin

Taking the stage at the Tap 'n' Tin, Chatham, a mere 12 hours or so after Pete Doherty has been sprung from prison.
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The Libertines - Unity at Peter's "Freedom Gig"

A local venue that is rapidly becoming a superpub to rival those of London last night played host to four bona fide superstars, and music history was made in the heart of Chatham.
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The Libertines: Freedom Gig, Tap'n'Tin, Chatham, Kent

The crowd in the very packed Tap'n'Tin in Chatham had expected just a single Libertine - Pete Doherty, fresh out of prison after burgling fellow Libertine Carl Barât's house. But then the missing three-quarters of the band, John Hassall, Gary Powell, and Barât appeared. Suddenly the audience realised that this could be a Libertines gig after all, and the girls started screaming.
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The Libertines: Inside story of boys in a band

Earlier this year The Libertines sacked Pete Doherty, their wayward guitarist. Then he was imprisoned for burglary. Line Thomsen asks the quartet what the future holds as they play a reunion gig.
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