Dirty Pretty Things to roll into town

Dirty Pretty Things visit Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Hall on October 9 as they tour new album Romance at Short Notice.

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Fronted by Carl Barat, a former member of The Libertines, the band was formed 2005, after a dispute between Barat and Pete Doherty led to the original band's breakup.

Didz Hammond was brought in from the Cooper Temple Clause alongside ex-Libertines drummer Gary Powell and guitarist Anthony Rossomando, who had filled in for Doherty following his departure from The Libertines.

Romance at Short Notice, the band's second album, got largely positive reviews.

Mojo said: "The songs are beautifully crafted in that Davies/Weller/Doherty English tradition."

The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan wrote: "In romanticising seediness (as on the splendidly louche Buzzards and Crows), and surrendering to the fact that Britain will never be the "Albion" of Barât's fantasies (on the trumpet-tooting Tired of England) they tread familiar, but very listenable, ground. An endearing example of raucous rock with a cynicism-free soft centre."

The NME said: "Sure, there's a residual whiff of mediocrity here, but Carl's clearly found something else in himself as part of this new gang, and as Dirty Pretty Things' music grows in assurance, it appears Pete will remain a solitary man for some time yet."

Q could only compare this offering to the early promise of the Libertines. "Taking into account the great things expected of those once promising likely lads, Romance At Short Notice offers only more disappointment," wrote the magazine's reviewer.

The Observer Music Monthly concluded: "Carl Barat must be nostalgic for 2001, when he was in the country's best band and anyone could make a living out of smearing Dickensian romanticism over chord sequences stolen from the Clash. Nowadays, his post-Pete Doherty project evinces dreary futility: he thinks he's Morrissey, but he sounds more like Sandi Thom."