Shotter's Nation

Shotter's Nation
Studio album by Babyshambles
Released	1 October 2007 (UK) 23 October 2007 (US)
Recorded	Olympic Studios, London, England: 2007
Genre	Indie rock, garage punk, garage rock
Length	43:11
Label	EMI, Parlophone (UK) Astralwerks (US)
Producer	Stephen Street
Babyshambles chronology
The Blinding EP (2006) Shotter's Nation (2007) Oh What a Lovely Tour (2008)
Pete Doherty chronology
The Blinding EP (2006) Shotter's Nation (2007) Time for Heroes - The Best of The Libertines (2007)

Shotter's Nation is the second album by English rock band Babyshambles and was released in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2007 by Parlophone^[1] to generally favourable reviews.^[2][3] In the United States the album was released on 23 October 2007 by Astralwerks.^[4] The first single from the album, "Delivery", was released on 17 September 2007.^[5]

The album was produced by Stephen Street and recorded at Olympic Studios in London, England.^[6] The acoustic closer, "The Lost Art of Murder", features a guest appearance from Bert Jansch.^[7]

It is the first Pete Doherty album without Mick Jones producing and his first released by a major label.

In an interview with NME magazine, Pete Doherty said that The Strokes (and solo) guitar player Albert Hammond, Jr., plays guitar on the album. Doherty did not mention the track's name, but did say it was an extremely short three bars of music. A limited edition of the album contains a DVD with a 40-minute track-by-track interview, 5 live songs recorded at the Boogaloo on 5 July 2007, and the music video of "Delivery".

The album's cover painting by Alizé Meurisse is based on the painting The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis (1856). It also originally featured an image of Kate Moss, which was replaced with an unknown lookalike.^[8]

It was reported Kate Moss has given up the royalties for the songs she co-wrote on Shotter's Nation.^[9]

The song "There She Goes" has been compared to "Lovecats" by The Cure by Garry Mulholland of The Observer.^[10] Drew McConnell revealed in interviews that the band wanted the song to sound something like "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed.

The band promoted the album by appearing in TV and radio shows in France and in the UK. They then played "Delivery" at the MTV EMA. The performance has been widely acclaimed.

There is a video for "French Dog Blues" featuring an animated French Dog. Ian Brown has songwriting credits to the aforementioned song. This is because the song contains a verse from "Deep Pile Dreams", a song from Brown's first album Unfinished Monkey Business.

The album was #14 in NME albums of the year.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100[11]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[12]
Robert Christgau	A−[13]
The Independent	[14]
Irish Independent	[15]
NME	8/10[16]
The Observer	[17]
Rolling Stone	[18]
The Sunday Times	[19]
Time Off	[20]
The Times	[21]
Uncut	[22]
Pitchfork	4/10[23]

The album was released to generally favorable reviews.^[11]

Track listing

1. "Carry On Up the Morning" (Peter Doherty, Michael Whitnall) – 2:57
2. "Delivery" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 2:41
3. "You Talk" (Doherty, Kate Moss) – 3:30
4. "UnBiloTitled" (Doherty, Peter Wolfe, Adam Ficek) – 3:52
5. "Side of the Road" (Doherty) – 2:09
6. "Crumb Begging Baghead" (Doherty, Whitnall) – 3:43
7. "Unstookie Titled" (Doherty, Whitnall, Ficek) – 4:30
8. "French Dog Blues" (Doherty, Ian Brown, Moss) – 3:32
9. "There She Goes" (Doherty) – 3:36
10. "Baddie's Boogie" (Toczek, Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 3:55
11. "Deft Left Hand" (Doherty, Whitnall, Moss) – 4:04
12. "Lost Art of Murder" (Doherty) – 4:38

Limited edition bonus DVD: We Like to Boogaloo

• The Boogaloo Tapes (Track by track interview)which actually contains a hidden video (or DVD "easter egg") while the band are talking about the song Crumb Begging Baghead, a French dog appears, and pressing enter selects this video.
• Live at the Boogaloo

1. "Delivery"
2. "Baddie's Boogie"
3. "UnBiloTitled"
4. "There She Goes"
5. "Pipedown"

• "Delivery" (Video)

"French" edition bonus DVD: Drew's Birthday: Live à L'Elysée Montmartre

• Live at l'Elysee Montmartre recorded on 13 November 2006

1. "Pipedown"
2. "Beg Steal or Borrow"
3. "You Talk"
4. "Sedative"
5. "Killamangiro"
6. "Time for Heroes"
7. "Albion"
8. "Fuck Forever"
9. "The Blinding"
10. "Backstage footage"

It was released on 12 May 2008

Personnel

• Peter Doherty – guitar, vocals, design
• Michael Whitnall – guitar, vocals
• Adam Ficek – drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals
• Drew McConnell – bass guitar, double bass, vocals
• Stephen Large – keyboards on track 4 and 8
• Bert Jansch – guitar on track 12
• Stephen Street – producer, mixing, additional guitar on tracks 11 and 12
• Tom Stanley – engineer
• Mo Hausler – assistant engineer
• Cenzo Townshend – mixing
• Neil Comber – assistant mix engineer
• Traffic – design
• Alizé Meurisse – cover painting
• Todd Korol – cover photograph

Singles

• Delivery (17 June), (2007), (Parlophone) #6
• You Talk (3 December), (2007), (Parlophone) #54

Chart performance

Certifications

See also

• Babyshambles discography

References