PETER DOHERTY’S ‘FELT BETTER ALIVE’ SINGLE OUT NOW – UK & EUROPEAN TOURS ANNOUNCED!

Peter Doherty has announced the release of his fantastic new album, Felt Better Alive, through Strap Originals on Friday 16th May. The release is Peter’s first solo album in nine years and the glorious rambunctious title track Felt Better Alive is out today as the first single.

Peter will be touring, playing 9 ‘Anywhere In Albion’ UK shows, and 7 ‘Felt Better Alive In Europe’ shows.

Watch the video for Felt Better Alive, directed by acclaimed French director Rose Bosch and produced by TwinPiix & Begarre Productions and featuring French actors Sophie Renoir – Death and Laura Genovino – Life. The video was shot in Normandy in early December.

A limited edition bonus disc, “Bootstrap Sessions”, will be available on vinyl for the first time ever! with songs taken from Peter’s notorious bootleg sessions (2003-2007). The 12 track album includes amongst others: ’Killamangiro’, ‘Ballad Of Grimaldi’, ’Lady Don’t Fall Backwards’/‘Bollywood To Batersea’ and ‘Hooligans On E’.

Felt Better Alive is Peter Doherty’s most confident solo collection yet, sprinkled with radiant playfulness, almost innocence at times, shot through with Peter Doherty’s signature melodic nous, quirky poetic realism and visual story-telling gifts.

The songs began in an idyllic rural setting, the Normandy village where Peter and his family live. Peter enlisted his friend and producer/musician Mike Moore, who’s produced Baxter Dury and plays guitar in Liam Gallagher’s band.

Peter says of the pedal steel driven song Felt Better Alive:

“It’s quite bouncy, quite country. ‘Dredging the mouth of the Humber’ is a line from Hancock [about coagulated sprinkled sugar in the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes]. The chorus I love, ‘And I’d always planned/To sing in a sweet and soulful way as only cowboys can/But my saddle strap snapped like a dog-chewed tourniquet…’It’s an accurate description of how I feel about certain times in my life, y’know? Treasures of the Sierra Mardre: you set off on this mission for the gold and you just ended up lost in the mountains, being hunted by bandits.”

Felt Better Alive is available to preorder now from: https://peterdoherty.orcd.co/feltbetteralive It will be available on CD, 12” vinyl in limited edition coloured variants, deluxe double vinyl, cassette and digital download with exclusive and signed items from the Official Store: https://peterdoherty.tmstor.es/

Anyone preordering the album will be in with a chance to purchase tickets for the UK and Europe Tours in March – May. Peter will also be touring Europe/Australia and Korea with The Libertines in early 2025 and playing two other solo shows in Newport – ICC Wales (8th March) and Antiguel Festival in Geneva (6th April). Tickets are available to presave now from https://peterdoherty.orcd.co/feltbetteralive and go on general sale at 10:00am on Friday January 17th.

The full list of solo dates is:

MARCH

8th SAT Newport ICC Wales

‘Anywhere In Albion’:

12th WED Wimborne The Tivoli Theatre

13th THU Birmingham XOYO

14th FRI Oldham Whittles

16th SAT Bristol Trinity Centre

17th MON Deptford New Cross Inn

18th TUE Catford Blackheath Halls

20th THU Mansfield Canvas

21st FRI Watford Palace Theatre

23rd SUN Newcastle Wylam Brewery

APRIL

6th SUN Geneva Antigel Festival

‘Felt Better Alive In Europe’:

26th SAT Paris Le Trianon

30th WED Amsterdam Melkweg

MAY

1st THU Cologne Die Kantine

2nd FRI Berlin Festisaal Kreuzberg

3rd SAT Leipzig Taubchenthal

5th MON Munich Technikum

13th TUE Bruges Cactus Muziekcentrum

Peter Doherty enjoyed No.1 album status with The Libertines fourth studio album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ in 2024. A buoyant spirit permeates Peter Doherty’s fifth solo album, Felt Better Alive, a gorgeous collection of poetic vignettes, both acoustic and orchestral, indie-folk and country, poignant and outright comic. Peter’s not only a survivor but a creative powerhouse, with more projects, plans and reasons to stay alive than he’s ever had. And in 2025, the year he turns 46, with Felt Better Alive, brings us some of the most deft, bouncy and charming songs of his always melodic life. Peter Doherty has released eleven albums – Four with The Libertines Up The Bracket (2002), The Libertines (2004), Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015)& All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade (2024); three with Babyshambles: Down In Albion (2005), Shotters Nation (2007) & Sequel To The Prequel (2013); two solo albums: Grace/Wastelands (2009) & Hamburg Demonstrations (2016); one as Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres (2019) and a collaboration with Frederic Lo The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime (2022).