Up the Bracket
Album by The Libertines
Released	October 14, 2002
Recorded	Summer 2002
Genre	Post Punk Revival
Length	39:20
Label	Rough Trade
Producer(s)	Mick Jones
Professional reviews
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The Libertines chronology
	Up The Bracket (2002)	The Libertines (2004)

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The album was re-released on the 8th of September, 2003 with an additional track, "What a Waster" and DVD featuring the promotional videos for the singles: "Up the Bracket", "Time for Heroes" and "I Get Along". Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Name

The album takes its name from the phrase "a punch up the bracket", often used by British comedian Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour. Hancock is also referenced in the opening track, Vertigo - "lead pipes, your fortune's made", being a line from the Half Hour episode 'The Poetry Society'. Biography published in 1978 (1983 paperback reprint shown) Anthony John Hancock, best known as Tony Hancock (May 12, 1924 – June 24, 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ...

Misc

The Libertines breakthrough was the start of a revival for the British rock scene, with many bands including Razorlight, The Paddingtons and Arctic Monkeys influenced by the album. Razorlight is an Anglo-Swedish band formed in the summer of 2002 around 22 year old singer/writer Johnny Borrell. ... The Paddingtons: Panic Attack photo shot. ... Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece indie rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, England. ...

Track Listing

1. "Vertigo" - 2:37
2. "Death on the Stairs" - 3:24
3. "Horrorshow" - 2:34
4. "Time for Heroes" - 2:40
5. "Boys in the Band" - 3:42
6. "Radio America" - 3:44
7. "Up the Bracket" - 2:40
8. "Tell the King" - 3:22
9. "The Boy Looked at Johnny" - 2:38
10. "Begging" - 3:20
11. "The Good Old Days" - 2:59
12. "I Get Along" - 2:51
13. "What a Waster" - 2:57
14. "Mockingbird" / "Mayday"

"What a Waster" and "Mockingbird" are extra tracks on the US and Japanese releases.

"What a Waster" is an extra track on the UK re-release.

"Mayday" is an additional extra track on the Australian release, along with "What a Waster".

Press Quotes

"Up the Bracket is the assured debut of the most debauched newcomers on the rock scene for some time: the Libertines." – BBC

"...you'll be hard-pushed to find a more pulsating debut by a Brit guitar band all year." - manchester online

"Finally we have a bona fide, modern punk band that actually made it out of high school; a band who've got the spirit and the balls, whose lyrical repertoire extends far beyond the naïve teenage escapades of their love-struck American counterparts." - designerpunk.com