“The chief appeal of the Libertines was the obsessive tactility of Doherty and his co-singer-songwriter, Carl Barat. They shared a single microphone and showered each other’s half-naked bodies with sweat and spittle. Watching them play live was like watching romantic poets engaging in Roman wrestling.”
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“What is your earliest memory?
Peter: Falling over a rabbit.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
Peter: Stage-diving in Dundee and getting a wedgie.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Peter: Billy Elliot’s little gay mate. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Peter: Not enough hats.”— Peter Doherty, The Guardian Q+A, 2006 (via missoneminute)
Peter knows that nine times out of 10 he will be forgiven for his acts
“He left, then he broke into Barat’s flat in Harley Street, London. When told the news, Barat says he felt himself “descend a bit deeper into this very painful world”. Doherty had publicly betrayed him. Powell is more forthright. “I was pissed off at Peter’s lack of self-worth,” he says. “It was Peter once again crying out for attention and the only way he could do that was burgling his best friend. There were millions of people he could have done that to. He chose Carl.”
“When Doherty was released from prison in October 2003, Barat went to collect him. “I didn’t want the bad guys to get him,” he says simply. Photographs of the meeting say more than either Barat or Doherty do. Arms wrapped around one another, they stride away from the prison, Doherty clasping his regulation HMP bag full of his belongings. The relief and joy at seeing each other is clear. In part, this is what is so frustrating for the rest of the band. “Peter knows,” says Powell, “that nine times out of 10 he will be forgiven for his acts.”
“The lived in Doherty with his flecks of grey and the surprisingly youthful Carl Barat still do that hog the mic – almost snogging – thing that was so much part of their staple- the terror twins, the tar stained lunatics of the chemical post Britpop era who were so much in love with their ideal and eachother that it was literally and breathlessly poring out of them.”
— from this review of glasto (via ufonaut)
“Gary is loyalty. John is calm. Pete is… another fucking story. Together they’re my brothers. They’re my family, my chemistry, my love. Whether we’re playing music or not.”
— Carl Barat on The Libertines, Music.163.com, 2018, via @ashtarosh
“‘When she wakes up in the morning” , she – that’s Carlos, “she writes down all her dreams..”’ – Peter Doherty (2002)
( inspired by french-cat-blues )
The libertines – 2002 Interview / part 5
If you had a film made about your life, which actor would play you?
Carlos: Chesney Hawkes would play me.
Peter: That little kid in..what’s that film with the ballet dancer in?
Pippa: (giggling) Billy Elliot
Peter: Yeah, that’s it, the kid’s little mate who wears make-up.
Pippa: Awww!
Carl: He looks like you!
Peter: Yeah he does look like me!
John: He’s a good looking kid tho. Some B-List celebrity would play me, probably Barrymore or someone, that would be great.
Pippa: Interesting film!
Carlos: (laughing lots) That would be a great film! (sings) Do you remember 19899999??
“Sometime close to the day that Carlos & I watched ‘Love and Death on Long Island’ (and afterwards paraded through the tea rooms of Piccadilly) we both filled in application forms and we were tres excited to be invited to the same group ‘interview’ – t’was more of an audition though. I got the part. Carlos never. This did not bring any animosity – we both know that success for either of us is magnified a million times if it is shared by us both. But hey ho and never you mind the acute psychological burdens this most splendid and dark relationship heaps upon me.”
— Pete Doherty, Books of Albion (via peterrrdoherty)
“It’s really special. This hotel is the first bricks and mortar embodiment of the band’s spirit. That’s where we are from now.”
— Carl Barat on the Albion Rooms, Northern Exposure, 2018
The Libertines put strife behind them for T in the Park 2015
“Carl wrote a couple of – can I use the word ‘couplets?’ Will I get stoned in public for using that word,” Doherty says with evident sarcasm. “And I actually sing them, so I’ll get the glory, and they’re an incredible couple of lines. I actually wept. They go: ‘In my cinematic mind, I see battles fought at sea/I wake from dawn’s empire, it must be lonely being you, being me.’”
Without hearing the rest of the song, it’s hard to divine the overall meaning of that lyric. But Barât acknowledges that it references he and Doherty’s relationship, albeit (it seems) filtered through their familiar interests in military history, a faith in a mythical Britain they style as Albion and a love of romantic imagery.
The Libertines put strife behind them for T in the Park 2015
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