Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produce some strong moments but without their youthful excitement it’s a rickety affair that wasn’t built for a huge venue

Carl Barât and Pete Doherty’s punk-rock singsongs may be out of step with today’s reality, but they still have their old vigour

We may be splitting from the EU, but at least Pete Doherty and Carl Barât have managed to stick together

As comeback kids Pete Doherty and Carl Barât trade barbs again, it’s back to the bromance – though with less intimacy and no melodrama

It has its flaws, but the first new album from the re-formed Libertines is better than anyone might reasonably have hoped

Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s volatile relationship imploded at the peak of their success in 2004. As the Libertines return with new album Anthems for Doomed Youth, can the old friends win people over once again?

One rare spark captures the incendiary romanticism between Pete and Carl, but fails to light a new-found fire

As fallback options go, the Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things frontman’s other band are remarkably ardent and bombastic