Pushing aside the ever renewing hype about possibly joining forces once again with loveable rogue Doherty, Carl Barat has revealed details of another side project he’s got brewing away.
On top of the work he’s been doing on The Chavs, with Tim Burgess of The Charlatans and Klaxons’ Jamie Reynolds, Barat has begun working on a dub album with Reverend and The Makers frontman Jon McClure.
Speaking to BBC 6 Music earlier today, he gave away few details:
“I'm just making a little dub record. To see how it goes, and if it's no good then well just leave it. It's just something I want to do and something he wants to do, so…”
The former-Libertine who is currently touring the new Dirty Pretty Things album Romance at Short Notice also spoke a little about what The Chavs are getting upto next.
Treating The Chavs as a somewhat of a musical retreat he said the new material is going to be quite different from they’ve done before:
“It's gonna be our darker stuff that we haven't been able to do with our bands. I think, I mean the inspiration starting points were the later PiL records. The idea is everyone brings something to the table really and we just see how it goes. It might change completely, but The Chavs are not going to be too silly anymore.”
Back to the Doherty rumour mill then?
Calling a band The Chavs is like calling a movie
Utter Fucking Shit: The Movie.
The Chavs
Most embarrassing band name ever.
This dub thing
could be interesting.
That said, compared to Dirty Pretty Things, watching Carl's fingernails grow would seem like pretty gripping stuff.
He's just desperate to be famous.
The Chavs?
Are they going to wear Adidas and Burberry in all their videos?
"Barat has begun working on a dub album
with Reverend and The Makers frontman Jon McClure."
I think this may be the worst idea in the history of music.
I bet
Lee Perry is shitting himself
Sounds AWESOME!!
MAN!
horrible horrible
horrible fucking awful band name oh god.
Disagree
He says along the lines of the track being about expressing the darker side of his chosen lyrics so what would be wrong with naming the band 'the chavs'. Infact what it's made to do is to shock and intrigue people like us. It isn't a band name, in many ways it is atuli a pretty cool and intriguing name!.
I wouldn't call it cool
but at least he didn't call it Biggles and the Big Bang Bong
All this happening after DPT's latest album bombs
...
the only reason
they are called the Chavs is cause they play the Tap N Tin in Chatham.
i think
it's a great band name. and what could be better inspiration than the later pil records? okay, don't answer that question. still, it's intriguing. i am desperate to know whether jamie reynolds is actually a good musician or not. anything he does prior to a new klaxons record is exciting to me.
Carl Barat
Looks exactly like Tony from Hollyoaks.