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Libertines Take The Money And Reunite
After roughly six years of speculation and media-baiting quotes in order to get publicity for their solo material, The Libertines have announced that they are reuniting at this year's Reading and Leeds Festival. It marks the first time since 2004 that original band members--Cal Barat, Pete Doherty, John Hassall and Gary Powell--have played together. The festival goes down on August 27-29.
The Libertines' reunion didn't come with a cheap price tag for the organizers of the fest: The band is getting paid around 1.5 million pounds (or close to $3 million). Considering most festival headlining performance go about an hour-and-a-half, these dudes are going to make a million pounds an hour. Great work if you can get it.
Of course the reunion is just tentative at this time, since Doherty is liable to get locked up again. But for now, The Libertines reunion is definitely on.
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