The Libertines play the Albion Rooms

Few who saw it thought the open invitation on an internet forum to see Britain's brightest indie hopes play a gig in the front room of their Bethnal Green flat was real. But the handful of believers who made it down to 112a Teesdale Street – AKA the Albion Rooms – were treated to a night of Libertines magic and the birth of the "guerrilla gig" which, for a brief, innocent moment, threatened to bring down the wall between bands and fans forever.