Libertines Reunion Likely In 2011

There have been plenty of reunion rumors floating around about The Libertines, perhaps at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, but Carl Barat told the Evening Standard that 2011 is when he and Pete Doherty might be ready to get the band back together for a reunion.

“It’s not definite definite,” said Barat.

“But 2011 is where there’s room for that to happen. So if everything’s all right, then, yeah, it would be glorious to get on the old jacket and venture forth, into the known.”

About a possible reunion with co-frontman Doherty in the Libertines, Barat remarked about the spotlight being put squarely upon them.

“There’s too much furore that would surround every little movement”, Carl told The Times. “If we’re going to do it, I’d rather do it properly and give it 100 per cent, but he’s a funny one, that Pete…”

The band split more than five years but have reunited here and there over the years.

Aside from the new solo album, Barat will be making his London stage debut later this month, playing the lead in a Sam Shepard play, Fool for Love. He stars as the rodeo rider Eddie, a role previously occupied by big-name actors like Ed Harris, Bruce Willis and, in the 1985 movie version, Shepard himself.

Would you be excited about a possible reunion of the Libertines?