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Pete to Carl: Let’s Be Friends!

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Pete Doherty reveals to the NME that the Libertines have received multiple offers worth millions of pounds to reunite for British festivals but that co-leader Carl Barat has nixed them all.

“We had some ridiculous offers to headline Reading,” he said. “Like £2 million to headline this festival, £1 million to headline that festival. I said, ‘Why don’t we just do it? Let’s get the old band back together.’

Pete and Carl have been seen together on occasion and have even performed some acoustic sets in recent months so what’s the problem? Pete says it’s personal.

“He (Barat) said, ‘We have to be friends, we can’t just do it for the money’. I said, ‘OK, let’s be friends! Friends who go and make lots of money’, because I haven’t got any money and I know he’s skint.

…and then it gets weird, even for Pete Doherty.

“He said I had to go and see an energy consultant, some new age guru who is going to measure my energy levels and see if I’m surrounded by darkness.

Sounds like one of those Scientology exams. Have we lost Carl too?

Previously: Carl Barat on Pete Doherty; Pete Doherty + Carl Barat = TLA; Reunited… And It Feels So Good; GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things; What Became of the Likely Lads?; and on and on…

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Dirty Pretty Things Bid Adieu

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We’ve been gaga for all things Libertines for a long time now. To the point of being apologists for that degenerate druggy, Pete Doherty. So, it’s with mixed feelings that we approach the news that ex-Libertine Carl Barat‘s band, Dirty Pretty Things, is no more. Their debut album was solid (if not mind blowing or as reckless as the Libs) and live they killed. The rumor will surely ramp up now putting Pete and Carl back together again, but for now let’s bid a fond farewell to DPT. Godspeed, boys!

Photos from one of the last shows: Dirty Pretty Things – Live in London

Our exclusive interview and day out in Chicago with the band: GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things

DPT’s Carl Barat and Anthony Rossomando in a touching goodbye immediately after their last show. From their last NME interview as bandmates.

Dirty Pretty Things – The Final Bow

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Carl Barat on Pete Doherty

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Previously unseen picture of Pete Doherty and old Libertines band-mate Carl Barat

Carl Barat talks to the Sunday Mail about “the tragedy of Pete Doherty.”

“You can’t give Pete advice. I’ve been through all that many times before. We were in Paris writing the second Libertines album, and I said to him, ‘Heroin and crack are bigger than you, mate — much bigger. If you carry on with those drugs, they’ll write their own story. Because that’s what those drugs do. If you keep doing them, there are only two scenarios. Either you’ll die or you’ll live the rest of your life like Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings.’ Quite often I’d try to shock him by saying things like that. But Pete never wanted to listen.”

Also of interest to Libertines fans:

“It reminded me how great we were together and how much unfinished business there is. … As to whether the Libertines could reform, that’s a big maybe. It’s a question that follows me around constantly. I’ll be out getting a loaf of bread and some aggressive schoolkid will come up and ask, ‘When are you getting the Libertines back together?’ I deal with it politely, but I’m thinking, ‘Do you really think this is something I haven’t given a lot of thought to?'”

Romance at Short Notice is out now in the UK, but a domestic release date has yet to be set by Interscope.

Dirty Pretty Things: Web, MySpace, Wiki.

Previously: GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things wherein we gave the band an authentic tour of Chicago with vintage clothes shopping in Wicker Park, hotdogs, and a quick dip in Lake Michigan.

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Free Pete Doherty

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I can't go back in. I'm innocent!The title’s not a call to action but a statement of fact: Pete’s free today, having served 29 days of a 14-week jail sentence for breaking probation. And from the sounds of it, prison life has it’s ups and downs when you’re Pete Doherty.

“I got trouble from the start, from the inmates and the guards, mainly shouting at night really,” Pete told the NME. “Some people were saying ‘Keep your head down’, the other half were saying ‘Keep your chin up’. So I was a bit like a nodding dog – I didn’t know whether to keep my chin up or keep my head down. It was 18-day early release – I can’t complain really.”

Doherty also claims to have been drug free during his time in the Joint.

“I managed to stay clean. I got my certificate. I was going to Sellotape it to the wall, but they wouldn’t give me any Sellotape,” he said. “Did I take heroin inside? Complete rubbish.”

Still, Pete’s upbeat. “It could have been a lot worse.”

Update: The Guardian has video of Pete waiting for his manager to pick him up.

Dirty Pretty Things news after the jump…

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Pete Doherty + Carl Barat = TLA

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According to the NME, Pete Doherty and Carl Barat are to begin writing a musical:

Babyshambles’ Pete Doherty and Dirty Pretty Things’ Carl Barat – formerly bandmates in The Libertines – will begin writing a musical together next week (March 10), for a new show scheduled to begin in early 2009.

Barat told NME.COM last November that he had been approached about writing a musical with Doherty. He has since explained to the Sunday Mirror that he and his old pal have since been commissioned by London’s Donmar Warehouse theatre, based in Covent Garden, to work on the project.

The play, apparently, is a “drama about the struggles of an up and coming rock band.” I’m pretty sure Pete and Carl already wrote that story, and it’s documented on their eponymous sophomore album, The Libertines. Unfortunately, we already know how it ends: “Can’t Stand Me Now” and “What Became of the Likely Lads?”

MP3s (via Insound):

• The Libertines – “Never Never”

• The Libertines – “Up the Bracket”

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Reunited… And It Feels So Good

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What became of forever?

Thanks to an NME blog created for Pete Doherty’s show at Hackney Empire last night, you too can experience the glorious reunion of Pete and his former Libertine soulmate, Carl Barat.

Previously: GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things; What Became of the Likely Lads? and The Libertines: Wet Work.

MP3: The Libertines – “Never Never” from the “Can’t Stand Me Now” single.

Photo by Roger Sargent.

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GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things

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Dirty? Check. Pretty? Check...GLONO hosts Dirty Pretty Things for a day in Chicago and gives them an authentic tour of the Windy City with vintage clothes shopping in Wicker Park, hotdogs, and a dip in the great Lake Michigan. Oh, and the band put on a hell of a show…

Anthony Rossomando is a skinny fuck topped with a disaster of curls. As the sole American in Dirty Pretty Things (MySpace) he was the cultural translator for the band as they did seven dates in the colonies this summer. Throughout our day together, Rossomondo continually put the quirks and intricacies of American minutia into perspective for his three decidedly British bandmates. He bridged the gulf between what was described by George Bernard Shaw as two countries separated by a common language. Interestingly, he’s also the bridge between the Libertines and the Dirty Pretty Things, despite the fact that TWO original members of the former are also members of the latter.

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What Became of the Likely Lads?

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What became of forever? We'll never know...Like so many great British bands, the allure of the Libertines was found in the complex and complicated relationship of its frontmen, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty. There was a playful, innocent, yet dangerous and volatile energy that surrounded the two and translated into cheeky lyrics and unabashed performance. Their relationship was as important to the band as the songs they wrote.

So what happens when they go their separate ways?

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