Get Loaded The Words For Poetry Pete

17 July 2006

Not only are his band Babyshambles set to headline this year's Get Loaded In The Park, Pete Doherty has announced he'll also be performing a rare poetry reading and playing a solo acoustic set...

Pete Doherty will perform an exclusive live acoustic set on the second stage at Get Loaded In The Park, which takes place on Clapham Common, London, on Sunday, 27 August.

The Babyshambles frontman will also be reading poetry as part of this one-off ‘Audience with Pete Doherty’, before taking to the main stage for the festival finale with his full band.

Other acts playing at the festival include chart topper Lily Allen, The Buzzcocks, Graham Coxon, Tiga, De La Soul, Adamski, Kila Kella, Goldie, Guillemots and British Sea Power. Click here for the full lineup.

In keeping with the Babyshambles theme, Get Loaded are offering ticket buyers a free collectors CD, featuring a new song 'Beg, Steal Or Borrow' in various mixes. The track has already received more than 27,000 listens on eBay and it can be heard here.

Tickets are priced just £30 for the day long event and can be bought here.

Get Loaded In The Park is also hosting a day-long festival in Cardiff's Cooper Fields, known as Cardiff Calling and featuring Snow Patrol, Badly Drawn Boy, Lily Allen, The Young Knives, Lethal Bizzle, Vitalic, James Lavelle and many more.