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  • And if you think I'm cheating here by not posting queer speculative fiction (cause, yanno, the Sacred Order of Libertines is just as real as the Elders of Sodom,) well, you can always go read "The Behold of the Eye".

    Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

  • "The Libertines is a wonderful vehicle, it's there and it's functioning, so it's certainly possible we'll do more."

    Carl Barât: The interview Alice Fisher 2010

  • And if you think I'm cheating here by not posting queer speculative fiction (cause, yanno, the Sacred Order of Libertines is just as real as the Elders of Sodom,) well, you can always go read "The Behold of the Eye".

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Sexual Libertines is probably a better description.

    Think Progress » Laura Bush’s War on Christmas 2005

  • Even at the height of their powers, the Libertines were a live act with all the reliability associated with people on vast quantities of drugs, which presumably accounts for the weird intensity of the audience's reaction to their appearance.

    The Libertines 2010

  • But before their second album, eponymously titled The Libertines, was even released, Doherty had been kicked out of the band — his drug addiction so destructive the rest of the group could no longer take it.

    The Beautiful and the Damned Ward, Vicky 2005

  • "But where the Strokes were tense and obsessed with being cool, the Libertines were the total opposite," explains former Blender editor Andy Pemberton.

    The Beautiful and the Damned Ward, Vicky 2005

  • The NME calls the Libertines "the band of our generation".

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Preachers, but what separated the Libertines was their understanding of the internet.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Time for Heroes by the Libertines is a perfect feckin lyric.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

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