Peter Doherty

During 2025 Peter Doherty and his band completed a highly successful tour across the UK and Europe, including festival appearances and headline shows. Peter’s latest album Felt Better Alive was his biggest UK album to date, going TOP 10 and receiving glowing **** reviews in Mojo, The Times, Der Spiegel, Musik Express, Les InRocks and Le Monde amongst many others.

Peter’s band features Mike Joyce - drums (The Smiths), Mike Moore - guitar (Liam Gallagher) Mark Neary - bass/Pedal Steel guitar(Baxter Dury), Jack Jones (Trampolene) - guitar and Peter’s wife Katia deVidas - Keyboards.

Peter Doherty will be performing a selection of nuggets from his back catalogue, including classics from The Libertines, Babyshambles and not forgetting all of his delicious solo projects/records…and maybe even a Smiths perennial.

Peter Doherty a songwriter who regained his No.1 album status with The Libertines’ fourth studio albumAll Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade in 2024. The timing was serendipitous, the album’s No.1 triumph coming twenty years after The Libertines No.1 album, way back in the mayhem of 2004.

It’s this buoyant spirit which permeates Peter Doherty’s fifth solo album, Felt Better Alive, a gorgeous collection of poetic vignettes, both acoustic and orchestral, indie-folk and country, poignant and outright comic.

Today, he’s not only a survivor but a creative powerhouse, with more projects, plans and reasons to stay alive than he’s ever had. And in 2025, the year he turns 46, with Felt Better Alive, brings us some of the most deft, bouncy and charming songs of his always melodic life.

©Roger Sargent

Xarpi

The Vitrë quartet, formed in late 2022, delivers an overall grunge sound with lyrics in English, Portuguese, and French. Xarpi manages all of its audiovisual content 100%. Izzy (guitar, vocals), Justine (bass), Lénaïc (drums), Marcello (lead guitar since 2025). The quartet blends the raw energy of grunge with punk bursts, melancholic ballads, reggae grooves and guitar solos. Their music oscillates between contained rage, acid irony and surreal imagery, through lyrics in English, Portuguese and French. XARPI evokes the fury of the Distillers as much as the poetic darkness of Tom Waitts, the urgency of T.S.O.L. or the noisy textures of Sonic Youth, while maintaining a resolutely unique identity. 100% independent, the band produces its own EPs, music videos, and fanzines and enjoys collaborating with other artists. Their two EPs, 3.1415... (2023) and Get Over It (2024), revive the spirit of the 90s with a raw, intense, and radically sincere aesthetic.

©DR