The only bad thing that could happen is one of us could get really hurt, and one of us could die. You can see in my expression that I’m delighted to be with my brother again. When we’re together, I feel a lot stronger. If you have a twin, and you lean against them, and you’ve both got one good arm—it is a bit like that. There’s a sense we shot out of the same cannon. Underlying love is a canvas to even our most hostile behaviour.
— Carl’s commentary on this photo in Uncut
“I miss the purity of what me and Pete had together when we started out. It would be great to have that back. Pete always used to say, “Imagine the songs we still have to write.” That thought is always with me.”
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Carl Barât, 2008.
Look at them now. Look at us.
(via carve-carve-carve)
“He’s quite a strange fella, Carl, really. He’s so talented, but he gets so wound up and nervous about his own capabilities. He’s always trying to make the excuse. He says ‘let’s go down to the beach’ or ‘let’s go to the lake and try to get in the right mood and try to get in the right frame of mind’. I’ll be like, ‘No, let’s just go sit down with some guitars and do some fucking writing.’ ‘Ah, OK. Let’s…’ It’s amazing what comes out.”
— Pete about Carl in new NME (via sequelz)
Interviewer: One of the most iconic Libertines tracks, ‘Time For Heroes’; the opening line – and the song as a whole – is a reference to the May Day riots. What d’you think about the more recent riots that happened in London and across the U.K.?
Peter Doherty: When they were kicking off and it was all on the news, I sent a text to Carl saying: “Did you see the…?” and he texted back saying: “Well, from what I saw outside Footlocker, they weren’t very stylish.”
We made a pact together by a canal. I was very passionate, and totally disillusioned. One day I said to him, ‘It’s either the top of the world or the bottom of that canal,’ and he said, ‘Do you really mean what you’re saying?’ and that if I did, he would join me. I said, ‘Yeah.’ We decided to throw ourselves into eternity
(via albion-sails-on-course)
I’ve always found it difficult to live in the moment, always been scared of losing what I’ve got, often to the point of not enjoying it. And now it seemed as if my fears were being realised.
Peter and my friendship has always been a very magical thing…with out meaning to sound a bit tossy….It was….Just the time we used to spend together and the things we used to do. We used to stand on Great Portland Street…there were these big floodlights, there were two… ‘What should we do today?’ ‘Let’s go to Great Portland Street and stand in the floodlights and pretend with our umbrellas and pretend to be statues and see if anyone notices’…and we used to literally go and do that. And like for the whole night we’d be like—*poses*. Fucking ridiculous! But yeah. And that’s nothing, we used to do a lot of pretending. It’s very liberating for the soul. I highly recommend it to anyone…I do love Peter so dearly. The thing about Peter, is that, ever since I first met him, he had this innate ability to just charm someone…Like to me he’d say: ‘I love you, you’re working class, but with a violent heart and a poetic temperament’. And I’d go, ‘wow, yeah, you really know me!’…But just that ability to sort of surmise people…and he’d do that…But um, where was I going with this? ….Just he’ll think of the tiny details that only a poet thinks of. He used to phone me up when he was miserable, when we were having one of our dramas. ‘Whatever. Ok, Pete, it’s fine. Where are you?’ And he’d go ‘In the rain!’ So endearing and so beautiful…The thing about Peter and I is that we’re both very old, very kindred souls. And for whatever we talk about, that’s kind of circumstantial. It’s like anything can happen. We could do anything. Individually, together, apart, to each other. But a conversation after six months, it’s the same thing. It’s euphoric…it’s…you know. I love Peter and …I think Peter loves me. A lot of times we don’t like each other, but the underlying thing is that love.
Carl Barat, No Innocent Bystanders (via quietnowherebesideyou)
“The lights were bright on Portland Street
And with the future at our feet
we held onto each other
But somewhere lost our way”
Carl Barat – So Long, My Lover Lyrics
(via 1ibertine)
“It’s as deeply horrible and beatifically brilliant as the depths of any relationship can allow.”
— Carl Barat, when asked to sum up his relationship with Pete Doherty in one sentence (via french-cat-blues)
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