Get well soon, Pete Libertine

[Jake]

Ahh, jeez, this is getting ridiculous: Pete Doherty loses it in Blackpool.

One fan told NME.COM: "Everyone can see he wasn’t well. Pete was looking really bad, forgetting his lines and almost falling to sleep. Members of the band kept having a word in his ear but a few songs in the guitarist just got fed up and left. The rest of the band followed and Pete tried to play on his acoustic."

Other fans have claimed that a member of the band’s crew physically attempted to remove Doherty from the stage in a headlock.

Another said: "Pete played about four songs before the guitarist stormed off. Pete looked bemused and the rest of the band members decided to leave the stage. He played a couple of Libertines songs on his guitar and carried on. But a member of their road crew was buzzing around him on stage after every song trying to get him off. After about half an hour of the set someone came on and eventually dragged him offstage in a headlock to a chorus of boos.

"When they came back on the crowd were really angry. They were throwing bottles at the stage and shouting abuse but the band carried on and played a couple of songs including ‘Killamangiro’. The band went offstage again and Doherty followed them shortly after.

"The crowd were getting more and more pissed off at this point and people started leaving. When he came back on at about midnight, he started playing a few Libertines tracks and he seemed to come round again. They tried to get him off again. But Pete tore his T-shirt off and dived into the crowd. He then climbed on the speakers. He was going mad. He didn’t have a clue what he was doing."

From the gig, Pete then went to Liverpool for a second show at the Zanzibar. Fans there have said the performance was just as bad.

One told NME.COM: "He played without his band last night and it was bloody shambolic. He turned up two hours late and played some awful songs."

[grounded5am]

man that dude is seriously fucked up. he's living the rock n'roll life to the extreme. even kieth richards knows when to stop.

[Jake]

Crack is wack.

[Jake]

Pete Doherty heads to Thailand for rehab

[sab]

It strikes me that Thailand just might not be the best place to do rehab. Kind of like you don't go to Emeril Lagasse's Las Vegas Fat Camp.

[Jake]

Back in Thailand for another round of rehab, but hey the other three Libertines joined him there this time to sign a record contract and are promising a new album next year. I hope they can pull it off!

[jonas]

I just caught The Libertines on Jools Holland and, all things considered, Pete looked pretty good, and the song kicked. Go Pete! I'm pulling for you, man.