Barat Blasts Freebies

Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barat has bemoaned bands who give away their music for free on the internet.

Specifically aiming his vitriol at Nine In Nails, Radiohead and Coldplay, the latter of whom made their new single ‘Violet Hill’ available free to fans last week, the former Libertines man told the Daily Star, “You could say [Coldplay] were jumping on the bandwagon a bit. Fair enough they did it, but you can’t escape the fact that big name, big money bands who release their stuff for free are harming the scene. The industry is struggling financially and this is like missile after missile. How do new bands compete? We didn’t have a big budget for our new album. And we’ve had to supplement the cash by doing more sideline work. I hope people don’t think we’re starting to go all corporate. We’re not. We just want to keep putting out music and being a band”.

Dirty Pretty Things release their second album ‘This Is Where The Truth Begins’ on 30th June.

A single, ‘Tired Of England’, precedes the album release on 23rd June. But we don’t reckon it’ll be free.