• Last Gang, London

    Roger Sargent explains: After the first day shooting the band, it seemed and felt like we’d got nothing. The expectations had been high, and the photos didn’t hit. They looked a little disparate. Like they didn’t belong together. We had another shoot planned a few days later and I suggested we get them wearing clothes to bring them together. Leather jackets, jeans etc. Like colours. Uniformity. The band took the uniformity suggestion very literally.
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  • Peter and Carl, Cherry Jam Beatles, London

    Roger recalls: This was a pivotal show for me. I’d had enough of the music industry, I’d moved out of London and was considering my options. My good friend and Libertine’s publicist Tony ‘The Tiger’ Linkin convinced me to come and shoot the show for NME. The gig was crazy and chaotic which I loved. The pictures had a feel of Beatles in their Hamburg era.
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  • Peter and Carl in the toilet at CBGBs

    Roger Sargent explains: I loved CBGB’s. It’s criminal that it was allowed to close—it’s more significant than The White House in my humble opinion. This is around the load in time, mid-afternoon, I’d been here before, the band had not, so I was winding them up about the great shows and bands who’d played before them. If I recall correctly the boys are reading Village Voice and checking out the preview for their show. Peter’s comedy cigarette is priceless. 
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  • Peter live, London

    Roger Sargent explains: Their live shows were often so much about chaos and camaraderie, I wanted to include a favourite photo with less of the usual madness.
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  • Peter with mirrored guitar, Albion Rooms, London

    Roger Sargent explains: I always felt a little odd taking pictures of people ‘partaking’. It’s never something I’d do surreptitiously but even when asked by the protagonist it’s uncomfortable. I think mostly it comes from the (in my mind) implied betrayal of trust—that weeks later one would run to the tabloids—not that I ever have. I’ve included this only because I think it’s a great photo. A little bit naughty but also cautionary. 
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  • Peter’s bedroom, London

    Roger Sargent remembers: When we arrived at Carl and Peter’s Bethnal Green flat at the assigned time, none of the band were there. Luckily Tony Linkin (the band's publicist) had a spare key. They introduced me to a new experience – a band being late to meet me in their own home! The lounge was a sight to behold. You literally could not see the floor for “knees up” detritus. The bath was full of washing up from the kitchen and the toilet didn’t flush. Turns out the water had been turned off and they’d resorted to filling it with bottled mineral water in order to expunge it’s contents.
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  • Rehearsing for the Reading Festival, Kings Cross, London

    Roger Sargent reflects: It was such a genuinely joyful experience being at the first rehearsals when the band reformed. They’d been somewhat shoehorned together for the payday but who gives a fuck, hearing the first few bars of ‘Horror Show’ again was godlike.
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  • Recording their second album, The Libertines, Metropolis Studios, West London, Spring 2004

    Roger Sargent recalls: Recording the second LP happened in fits and starts as I remember. Without Mick Jones things would have probably gone a lot worse. This was a band in the middle of bearing their collective souls in the most candid and brutal way possible.
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  • Reformed, London

    Roger Sargent recalls: I’d never been particularly nervous or intimidated around a shoot with The Libertines before, but some time had passed since I’d seen Peter. I’d been shooting Carls band Dirty Pretty Things a lot and only seen Peter on a handful of occasions in six years. There was a ‘them’ or at least ‘him’ and ‘us’ feeling. At the time I was more concerned about my own feelings – Peter had become a kind of infamous tabloid figure and we read about him more than spent time with him. I could feel his nervousness and it made me feel more nervous. I feel stupid having thought this at the time, but it crossed my mind that the things we’d read might come true – he might smash things up or start a fight. Ludicrous how shitty tabloid spin can skew things.
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  • Second shoot, London

    Roger Sargent reflects: If there’s a better looking, cooler band out there then I’ve not seen them.
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  • On a sofa, Albion Rooms, London

    Roger Sargent explains: This was a little set up, but the more posed frames look a little awkward. I like to leave people to see what happens though sometimes, unprompted.
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  • Carl and Peter on the tour bus between Birmingham and Manchester

    Roger Sargent remembers: Fun, my overarching memory of working with The Libertines, despite all the pain and disappointments will always be one of fun. Four of the warmest, gentle, creative, intelligent and funniest people I’ve had the pleasure of pointing a camera towards.
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