The Blinding EP

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The Blinding EP
Extended Play from Babyshambles

Publication
(s)

4th December 2006

Label (s) Regal Records , Parlophone

Genre (s)

Indie rock , post punk revival, garage

Title (number)

5

running time

17:32

occupation
chronology
Down in Albion
(2005) 		The Blinding EP Shotter's Nation
(2007)

The Blinding EP is an EP by British rock band Babyshambles . It was both the first release after the record deal with Parlophone and the first release without Patrick Walden, who left the band in spring 2006 . The EP was released in the UK on December 4, 2006 and received mostly positive reviews.

Tracklist

All lyrics were written by Peter Doherty , the music by all band members.

1. "The Blinding" - 2:59
2. "Love You but You're Green" - 4:35
3. "I Wish" - 2:47
4. "Beg, Steal or Borrow" - 3:07
5. "Sedatives" - 4:04

NME reports that the Babyshambles recorded eleven songs for the EP in October 2006 , but only the five above were released; these unreleased songs are named according to the NME as follows: "I Can See from Afar", "Anguish", "Stung Me Like Life". Fans have speculated that "Anguish" and "Stung Me Like Life" are just the names of the songs "I Wish" and "Stone Me, What A Life", which the reporter misunderstood.

Cover

Like that of the debut album Down in Albion, the cover was designed by Peter Doherty . On the cover you can see a photo of Peter Dohertys, on which he is playing guitar with a bare chest. His eyes are taped shut with a strip of gaffer tape , and across the picture is written "The Blinding EP".

Music videos

The blinding

The video for "The Blinding" was directed by Julien Temple . It is set in an abandoned West London underground station.

The video shows the band playing the song in the subway station, or alternatively in a glass case, with black gaffer tape over their eyes; different objects are shown again and again, e.g. B. three stacked skulls, a deer, Pete Doherty standing in an open coffin, the doll of a man with a white shirt and black trousers holding a dagger, a sign that says "Elvis is dead", a chainsaw and a " blinded "Doherty painting on canvas. The Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe also appears. His portrait often appears in short sequences in which the portrayed Marlowe is stabbed in the eye; Christopher Marlowe himself died while fighting over a bill in a pub . A dagger was rammed into his head above his right eye. The video ends with tearing up a wall collage in the old subway station, smashing the guitars of the Babyshambles and Doherty destroying a mirror.

Paul Roundhill , General Santana and other friends of the band make a brief appearance on the video .

Love You But You're Green

The video for "Love You But You're Green" (director: Julien Temple ) has the special feature that the individual band members never play their instruments together, but only in separate locations: Adam Ficek plays his drums on a traffic island , Drew McConnell his double bass in front of a fireplace, Mick Whitnall his guitar in a cemetery, and Pete Doherty sings and plays guitar in front of a shabby shed and later in front of a pile of tires.

Both "Love You But You're Green" and "The Blinding" were written by Pete Doherty while he was with the Libertines , but it is unclear whether any of the other band members were involved in the making of the songs.

Charts

year title Chart positions
UK AT DK JPN
2006 The Blinding EP 62 44 5 147

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/24705