Tag: Pete n Carl

Interviewer: I’ve got a question. Can I ask one? We told them please don’t ask him anything about Pete Doherty and I’m not asking about Pete Doherty. But I’ve read some interviews and I really like the way you were talking about this relationship, which is upside down and an up and down relationship. Seems like a very brotherly relationship. And you have a lot of patience for this man whom you seem to really love. Deeply.

Carl: Yeah, sometimes I have patience.

Interviewer: You gave it a try, right?

Carl: Yeah, I do give it a try. I think when something is that special then it’s worth fighting for. And sometimes it’s..I think if you keep yourself in the right head-set and heart-set then if something’s meant to happen it will. That’s why last year happened…that’s why it didn’t happen this year…I keep on trying but I’m not going to sort of devote my life to it really.

Interviewer: You seem like a very wise person.

Carl: *shakes head*

Interviewer: Do you get that from all your readings? You don’t get that kind of attitude very often in the music maelstrom. Things go very fast and you seem quite balanced.

Carl: Well, I don’t know. It would be foolish of me to agree with you. Pride coming before a fall and all that. But thank you very much.

(July 8 2011)

quietnowherebesideyou:

Like anything in my experience with Pete it’s been quite fraught with many different emotions, fears, euphorias. I was relieved when it was over if only for the fact that I think it went well. The encore was a bit odd; it was certainly in true Libertines tradition, wasn’t it?…It always feels natural and there’s the occasional flicker of worry, but I think it’s mutual, you know? But when I’m playing those songs it feels really good…

Obviously when you’re connecting with someone on that level, when there’s a soulmatedom and you grow an intrinsic part of your entire ethos of the world with that person then you’re going to remain….. no matter what they do ….. there’s always going to remain a vestige, a little light which you can’t extinguish even in the darkest times. The tomb of the unknown pigman!

–Carl speaking about the Hackney Empire Reunion, NME April 2007

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