Pete Doherty 'scraps solo album'
Peter Doherty has admitted he wants to ditch the solo album he has been working on and begin afresh abroad. More...
Pete Doherty announces London club shows
Pete Doherty
has announced details of three London club shows set to take place next week (starting May 26). More...
17th May Manchester AcademyPete Doherty solo tour gigs
19th May Glasgow Barrowlands
12th July Royal Albert Hall (rescheduled from 26th April)
Babyshambles album gets a US release
'Shotter's Nation' hits Stateside this autumn
Babyshambles
have announced the US release date of their forthcoming sophomore album 'Shotter's Nation'.
The follow-up to 2005's 'Down In Albion' will hit Stateside on October 23 via Astralwerks.
As previously announced,
Babyshambles
are giving a different version of their comeback single away for free, exclusively with NME.
'Delivery' will appear on seven-inch vinyl and will only be available with the issue of NME that's out on September 11.
The tracklisting for both the US and UK versions of 'Shotter's Nation' are identical. Read NME's track-by-track verdict on the new album here.
http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/30580
Kate and Pete to wed ASAP
And they've already picked the best man...
Kate Moss and Pete Doherty have revealed they want to tie the knot as soon as legally possible.
Supermodel Kate said after last week's NME Awards (March 1), "I just want to be with my boyfriend. He's wild, crazy, but he's cool."
And Pete added, "We want a special wedding and we don't want to do it here, there's too much sh*t here. Somewhere small and out of the way would be cool. We can't wait, it will be beautiful."
Meanwhile, Kate said the pair's life is not as crazy as it's painted in the tabloids, and that once hitched they'll live a life of domestic bliss.
Talking to the News Of The World, she said, "I can't understand all in the interest in us any more. I'd rather be at home with him. We don't go out much."
The pair have even decided on a best man. Pete's old Libertines band mate Carl Barat has revealed he's the lucky bloke.
The Dirty Pretty Things frontman told the Daily Mirror, "We had a heart-to-heart the other day and at the end of the conversation Pete asked me to be his best man... He told me he and Kate were desperate to marry and his offer was deadly serious."
However there is currently one obstacle blocking Mocherty's exotic trip down the aisle - Pete's criminal record.
The Babyshambles man said, "We can't get married thanks to the police f*ckers. We want to do it away, a special wedding somewhere miles from anywhere and everyone, but the f*cking police have taken away my f*cking passport."
http://www.mtv.co.uk/channel/mtvuk/news/05032007/kate_and_pete_to_wed_asap
Doherty and Kate Moss leave Shockwaves NME Awards early
Security ask couple to leave after 'alleyway' incident Pete Doherty and his model girlfriend Kate Moss left the Shockwaves NME Awards 2007 early tonight (March 1). The couple were were asked to leave the ceremony by security after a series of incidents at the ceremony held at Hammersmith Palais. According to a source who spoke to NME.COM on the condition of remaining anonymous, the couple got into trouble after becoming too amorous for the security personel's liking. The source said the loved-up pair were first caught trying to get into the venue's toilets together and were later caught in an alleyway at the back of the building together. The anonymous source said: "Pete and Kate were trying to get into the premises' toilets but they were removed by the bouncers and told to go back to their table. "Later they were both caught in a dark alleyway at the back of the building. So we got their own security guards to put them in a car and take them home." According to the source, the couple were removed from the premises at 8.30pm, before Moss could present Primal Scream with their Godlike Genius award as scheduled. Meanwhile, Doherty's band
Babyshambles
- who did not attend - were nominated for two of this year's awards Best British Band and Best Live Band. http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/26779 Troubled rocker Pete Doherty and his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss were
spotted wearing matching rings on Wednesday night, again sparking
rumors the couple have tied the knot. The couple were enjoying a ride in a bright yellow Fiat 500 on Valentine's
Day, courtesy of restaurateur David Tang, when they were seen sporting
identical rings -- with the Babyshambles star wearing his on his wedding
finger. Doherty, 27, and Moss, 33, have repeatedly denied reports they got married
while on holiday in Thailand last month, after becoming formally
engaged in Florence, Italy in October following a rocky 21 month
relationship. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=13585
Doherty and Moss Sport Matching Rings
Amy Winehouse And Pete Doherty Too 'Flaky' To Tape Duet
Amy Winehouse
has no plans to record a duet with troubled rocker Pete Doherty - and admits they are unlikely to get together because of their hedonistic lifestyle
The Frank singer and Babyshambles frontman Doherty, who has a well-documented drug problem, have long been rumoured to be teaming up, but Amy Winehouse can't see it happening any time soon.
She says, "That is simply not true. Maybe he has got his own thing planned where he will jump onstage of his own accord and join me.
"It would be cool but he's all over the shop and so am I. We're as flaky as each other. I wouldn't hold your breath for it.
"I would like to do something with him in the future. He's ridiculously talented."
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21264058.shtml
Kate Moss Tells Pete Doherty 'I'm Not In Love'
Kate Moss’ on-off relationship with junkie rocker Pete Doherty is off again, after the supermodel jetted off to Dubai with daughter Lila Grace.
Before she left the 33-year-old told Doherty she wasn’t in love with him anymore, news that made the blubbing Babyshambles singer desperately seek help from his mum.
A source tells the News Of The World, “Kate told Pete that there's no chance of marriage or kids.
“She laid her cards on the table and Pete flipped. He doesn't want it to end - he's so in love with Kate."
“Pete phoned his mum in tears. He was inconsolable as he cried down the phone - he really thought they would get married soon."
That would obviously be the 'sensitive side' that's attracts Moss so much, despite Pete's massive appetite for hard drugs.
Anyways, "So Jackie called Kate and begged her to stand by Pete in his battle with drugs. She warned Kate that if she left him now, Pete could end up dead.
"Her argument was that Kate is the only person who's really trying to help Pete kick hard drugs.”
However, whilst Moss told Pete’s mum she would do her best to help him kick his long-running battle with crack an heroin, she added that she would not be doing it as anything other than his friend… apparently.
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=27796
Pete and Kate bust up over Lily
Kate Moss is reportedly jealous of Pete Doherty's friendship with Lily Allen and has banned him from going to the Brits as a result.
An insider told the Daily Mirror that Kate found a present Lily had given to Pete last year, and went "ballistic".
Said the source: "(She) kept shouting about why he had kept the thing from Lily all these months. Pete insisted she was being paranoid, they were just mates.
"But Kate was having none of it and said there was no way Pete was going to the Brits if Lily was going - especially as she wasn't going herself. Pete was gutted as he was looking forward to it."
MTV.co.uk were the first to report that Pete and Lily buried the hatchet at last summer's 'Get Loaded In The Park' festival and the two have kept in touch ever since.
However it seems their budding friendship might have to be put on hold if Mossy has anything to do with it.
"Kate feels that because of her non-music background, she'll never be truly on (Pete's) wavelength," explained the source.
Time to start learning the recorder, Kate?
http://www.mtv.co.uk/channel/mtvuk/news/08022007/pete_and_kate_bust_up_over_lily
Pete Doherty risks legal trouble for New Year’s Thai trip
Pete Doherty is reportedly considering breaking his court-imposed supervision order so that he can spend new year’s eve with his fiancee Kate Moss.
After spending Christmas together in Kate’s home in the Cotswolds, she flew to Thailand on Wednesday but Pete is restricted to only travelling within Europe as he has to check in every week with his probation officer in London.
A source told the Sun: “Pete is desperate to make it to Thailand to bring in the New Year with Kate. They have been on and off a lot recently but patched things up properly leading up to Christmas.”
“Kate has flown to Thailand and was trying to organise a flight for Pete before she left. If he goes he is flying to the worst place for a recovering drug addict. And if he breaks the terms of his probation he will be facing more trouble with the law.”
Pete Doherty and Kate Moss could marry this week
Cocaine poster couple, Kate Moss and Pete Doherty could marry this week in London, The Mail UK reports.
The fashion icon and the troubled rocker are expected to tie the knot in a civil ceremony in west London, the tabloid said.
Moss, recently resurrected her career after drug-taking revelations last year when a newspaper published pictures of her allegedly taking cocaine.
Notorious rock bad boy Doherty checked out of a drug rehabilitation clinic in September.
Last month, Pete Doherty threatened to leave Kate after she flirted
with a male stripper.
The rocker reportedly accused the 32-year-old model of paying too much
attention to the male performer when they visited a London club to watch a
saucy avant-garde strip show.
A source told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "They had a row after he
accused her of flirting with a male stripper and spending all her time with
friends.
"Kate swore to Pete that he had it all wrong, but he wouldn't listen. He
said she was constantly jealous of him so now he was giving her a dose of
her own medicine. He moaned that her life was too much like a circus of
parties and hangers-on and she didn't make enough time for him.
"He told her, 'make space for us alone or I'm moving out.'"
Singer Doherty, 27, has invited his fellow Babyshambles band mates to witness the ceremony at the Fulham Register Office, said the paper.
"Both Kate and Pete have invited close friends and family to meet them there Friday," an unnamed source told the newspaper.
"There's been a bit of a tussle over the guest list, which is small because Kate's concerned that some of Pete's hangers-on are bad news, but he's determined to have his mates there."
And a wider group of friends and family have been invited to the Spanish party island of Ibiza for a lavish wedding celebration Jan. 18, the newspaper said.
"Kate and Pete will travel out to the island a couple of days ahead of the party, in time for her 33rd birthday Jan. 16. Everyone else has been told to get there on the 18th and lots have already booked their flights," a source close to both told the newspaper.
In other news, Duchess of York will let her daughters party over the New Year with Kate Moss.
The Duchess decided to take Princesses Beatrice, 18, and Eugenie, 16, on holiday to Thailand, where they will be joined by the cocaine-snorting supermodel and attend an extravagant house party.
They will spend New Year's Eve at a glamorous bash thrown by socialite businessman David Tang at his rented beach side villa on the resort island of Phuket.
Some of London's most dedicated party animals will also be there, including former drug addict Naomi Campbell.
http://thebosh.com/archives/2006/12/kate_moss_and_pete_doherty_could_marry_this_week.php
Pete Doherty: A year of living dangerously
Pete Doherty began the last month of 2006 the way he had spent the previous 11, as if a tabloid editor was scripting his every move.
Somewhere in the small hours of Sunday 3 December, at a party attended by Doherty in an east London flat, the actor Mark Blanco fell to his death. Later that night, Doherty fled a wrecked hotel room. That Monday, he was fined £770 in court for possession of various drugs, and his band Babyshambles released their first EMI record, The Blinding, and opened a postponed UK tour with a barnstorming show at Newcastle Academy.
On the Tuesday following, news of Blanco's death hit the front pages (Doherty's blamelessness was buried paragraphs down). That Thursday, Babyshambles played a gig at Selfridges in London to announce Doherty's unlikely position as the "face and inspiration" of a new menswear range.
The Blinding's title track, about the flash of a paparazzo's camera - " the last thing that you'll ever see" - may prove prophetic. This year saw Doherty arrested on drug offences six times, and appear in court on seven separate occasions. In October, his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss announced their engagement, confirming them as chemical generation royalty.
But the ferocious Newcastle gig recalled another Doherty narrative, the only one that will really count in the end. Before his addictions and involvement with Moss (the "Beauty and the Beast" tabloid dream wryly noted on Babyshambles' 2005 album Down in Albion), he was a purely heroic musical figure to many, with his old band The Libertines. Their primal rock sound was an inspiration to many of the bands who have broken through in 2006, The Mystery Jets, Larrikin Love and The View among them. That is the Doherty whom fans went to worship in Newcastle.
But this year has seen his reputation teeter on the brink. Does the notoriously seedy company he is prone to keeping and his addictions now outweigh an always precarious musical talent? Just what is Doherty worth, beyond the tabloids' glare? When I met him as The Blinding neared completion in a studio in Clerkenwell, east London, to discuss his year, the answer remained uncertain. The EP's songs, more solid than Down in Albion's opiated drift, tentatively justify EMI's lifeline to Babyshambles (cut loose from Rough Trade last year).
But the Doherty who is making it is fractious and evasive. Hours of waiting produce two surly conversations, intercut with errands to an " accountant " for cash, the crack pipe in his pocket suggestive of his lifestyle. Minder Johnny Headlock, also to be present on the night of Blanco's death, stays close. The rest of Babyshambles, regular victims of the Doherty no-shows that have wrecked tours, are eager to talk, wanting things to work out.
The singer remains a law unto himself when he leads me to the studio's gloomy basement. Unwelcome questions are greeted with cavernous pauses. Only when I ask him about his appearance on a Tony Hancock documentary does the innocent dreamer of The Libertines' early days come alive.
A Forties British bohemianism lies at the heart of his imagination: the world of Hancock, Greene, Orwell and Bacon, separating him from his peers. " Yeah, those people fed me," he says happily. "Somehow, they stretched out across the decades, and picked up a lost soul. When they find you younger, it just completely encapsulates you. Takes you out with a pipe in the night, and takes your breath. It's like you don't exist, and then they go and... Well, anyway. Orwell broke up boulders and turned them into tiny stones. I didn't know who The Clash were then. I spent a lot of time on my own. The only person about my age was separated by barbed wires. Kicking a ball against a wall..."
Doherty is flashing back to his childhood, the son of an Army Major father, Peter, whose nomadic military life caused that barbed-wire isolation. Peter disowned him this year, tired of his addict's lies. Mother Jackie has published a despairing book, Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son.
But Doherty's own lucrative book deal (for The Books of Albion, due in March), again shows his other side. They will be drawn from his scrawled, fragmentary online journals. The books' titles - Boheme, Consumption, Libertine - reveal another creative wellspring, the dissolute bohemianism of English Romantic poets and French existentialists. The squalid east London home he daubed with his own blood, and was evicted from in September, is the underside of such dreams. His Cockney folk lyrics, fed by phrases from old films and books, are the reward.
"Albion", a Babyshambles song with words equal parts John Betjeman and Johnny Rotten, also shows a shared lineage with London writers from Blake to Iain Sinclair. When Doherty first moved to London in 1997, he and Libertines co-leader Carl Barât composed a mythical version of the city, and England as a whole: Arcadia, to be sailed to on "the good ship Albion".
In 2006, does he still hold that dream? "I still do," he says. " It's changed a lot. It started off as something ancient and forgotten; and became something modern and real." He half-laughs, perhaps thinking of all that's happened to him in London. "I just couldn't swim. The tunnels get narrower and narrower." Has he kept his ideals? "Have you?"
While Doherty's relationship with Moss obsesses the tabloids, it is his bond with Barât that matters to fans. Up the Bracket (2002), The Libertines' debut album, remains the only great record that Doherty has helped to make. It still sounds joyous and anarchic, studded with anthemic songs.
The band's impromptu gigs in their flat collapsed barriers between them and their fans, an ideal the British indie scene still maintains. But the band's self-titled 2004 follow-up was crippled by Doherty's spiralling drug addictions, causing Barât to split the group. The sleeve, with a pallid Doherty's arm bared and a harried Barât propping him up, showed the dream's death.
Since a July reunion at Camden's Dublin Castle pub, the pair have hesitantly healed their rift. The day I meet Doherty, though, he is in a bitter mood.
"Did you not listen to what we were singing?" he asks, appalled, when I ask if The Libertines were the ideal vehicle for his early dreams. " Did it sound like we were happy, the perfect band? I can't believe they kicked me out." He sighs. "Carl's all right. It's just like EastEnders really. He's still my kid."
Then he switches again, seething: "I paid the price. I got kicked out of the band. And with nothing, no sweat from anyone, we got it together with Babyshambles. We really got it. But they [meaning Barât and his fellow ex-Libertines in Dirty Pretty Things] got it in the fact that they were in the best band and now they're in the worst band. And he needs to sort that out.
"He's still really pissed off. But I know he's not like that. He's someone who likes drinking. That's the hypocrisy of it." Does Pete miss anything about Carl creatively? "He used to get me good crack," he snaps acidly. "That'll do, innit?" And Doherty leaves, returning hours later, when the snap of his lighter punctuates still more effortful words.
The fact is that his image in 2006 is a world away from the fresh-faced boy of even two years ago. Where he and Barât once favoured extravagant military jackets, Doherty now appears bare-chested in photos, recalling the iconic but talentless Sid Vicious. Where the point of The Libertines was community, Doherty in 2006 has been characterised by an addict's selfishness. The string of arrests, and his new bond with Moss, have seen tabloid inches dwarf all his achievements.
Then there are the drugs. The media's salacious attention apart (and days like our meeting), there is no doubt that Doherty has spent 2006 trying to fight clear of his demons.
I wonder how this determined libertine sees the balance between self-destruction and his art. Does he associate control with a dull life? " No, not at all. It's the opposite. I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life. You don't need to control your drug intake to lead a free life. Whether you take no drugs at all or everything you can get your hands on, a free life is separate from that."
But does he ever feel he is going astray? Has he looked around, at the room he's in, or the people he's with, and felt frightened? "No, I never surround myself with people I hate," he says. "I always leave there pretty sharpish."
The most important thing that happened to Doherty last week may not be any tabloid headline, but The Blinding's release. He's shown unusual professionalism for his new EMI paymasters, promoting it on The Culture Show and starting his tour burning with energy. Drummer Adam Ficek told NME: " He's realised that these chances aren't always going to be around."
I wonder if he is working with The Clash's Mick Jones, producer-mentor on all his previous records. "In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones, " Doherty says. "I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything. History, quite a lot. Balloons, and wars, and old football players. The Clash." Does Jones ever give Doherty advice? "He just tells me straight. Like with the drug thing. He's like, 'You're really a slave to it, aren't you?'"
The Blinding doesn't really settle the arguments over Doherty's musical worth. It may be that his talent won't ever cohere into something clearly great. The fragile, fascinating drift of his voice, fragmentary lyrics and erratic live performances, so against pop's mechanistic grain, may be his main contribution.
At any rate, he has written his own happy ending, in a notebook where he sketched Down in Albion's plot: "True Love of girl and the English Imagination let Beast see error of his ways. Rehabilitation. Beast is released from prison back into things, but wants to break FREE."
Here's hoping that Doherty makes it. The tabloids may see you as sport, Pete, I tell him in parting. But most of us just want you to survive, and keep making music. "I always have done," he says, defiantly. " Always."
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music-gigs/article2087396.ece
Museum Of Pete Doherty
“AS well as not paying his rent, there’s both graffiti and blood on the wall, and goodness knows that else. We have never known anyone like him.”
Andreas Panayiotou should not worry. The blood and other substances belong to Pete Doherty, his tenant. And such is the singer’s celebrity that the flat could be worth more money in its current state then if cleaned up.
Andreas is advised to pass the Hackney flat off as a Pete Doherty installation and charge people a fiver to see it.
And, as the Mirror says, the flat was the setting for those “notorious” snaps of Pete appearing to inject an unconscious female fan with drugs. Make that ten pounds on the door, and stick a chalk line around the area where the girl was seen lying.
Sadly, Pete will not be making an appearance at London’s newest museum. He has been chucked out of the £350,000 flat on account of his owing £10,000 in rent.
Pete is now residing at The Priory rest home for celebrities, where the Star says he has developed a new addiction. No, not to fame and writing hit songs - Pete is addicted to cooking.
He’s befriended an Irish chef who is teaching Pete how to cook dishes like Dublin Coddle and Boxy and Buttermilk Bannock.
And so hooked on food is Pete that he is, apparently, thinking of setting up a restaurant in London’s Camden Town serving traditional Irish fare.
And he could do well. A survey by independent health research groups Dr Foster Intelligence and Experian data (as reported in the Mail) positions Camden third in a league table of “thinnest areas”. (Camden is beaten by Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster).
These people need feeding up. They need an injection of Pete’s good stuff...
http://www.anorak.co.uk/features.php?features_id=170443&feature=Pete%20Doherty
Mother's hope for singer Doherty
The mother of troubled singer Pete Doherty has told the BBC she hopes his current stay in rehab will help him get over his drug addiction.
The Babyshambles frontman was told to stay at a clinic after pleading guilty to five counts of possessing drugs earlier this month.
Jackie Doherty, 52, told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that it was the seventh time her son had been in rehab.
Ms Doherty has written a book about her experiences called My Prodigal Son.
Doherty, 27, has been fighting a high-profile addiction to heroin, and is facing the possibility of a prison sentence when he returns to court on 4 September.
"People don't take drugs, drugs take people," Ms Doherty said.
"They take their lives, their control, everything."
Ms Doherty said she did not have an inkling of her son's drug addiction, until a person close to his then band contacted her.
"I would never have known Peter was a drug addict at that point.
"He was clean, he was lucid, there were no needle marks, his eyes were fine. I'm a nurse, I missed every physical sign.
"It was only until we talked long into the night and finally he admitted it, to himself at first, then outwardly."
'Stop the pain'
In her book Ms Doherty said watching her son battle drug addiction meant she "understood" why the father of soul legend Marvin Gaye killed his son.
Gaye, who also had a drug addiction, was just 44 when he was shot by his father during an argument.
"You wouldn't be able to understand this if you have never been through it," she said.
"Just this week I had a phone call from a mother whose son had injected into his neck and was unconscious.
"She felt at the time that perhaps it would easier to let him go to stop the pain. That's how a mother feels.
"I've never been in that situation, I actually don't understand that, but I do understand how Marvin Gaye's father felt," she said.
Ms Doherty said "never in a million years" would she have suspected her son would grow up to be a drug addict.
"Pete was a wonderful child, a happy child. Everybody loved him. He was popular with everybody, all sorts of different people, and had lots of friends."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5301692.stm
Pete 'signs £1m record deal'
Things could be improving for troubled singer Pete Doherty after reports his band has signed a £1m record deal.
We are more used to seeing the Babyshambles frontman in the news for his brushes with the law, but it seems he may be finally turning his life around.
The 27-year-old former Libertines singer has been getting treatment for crack and heroin addiction and is said to be taking a healthy new approach to life.
Babyshambles were dropped by their record label Rough Trade earlier this year.
The deal they have reportedly signed is said to be with major label Parlophone.
One of the reasons cited for trying to turn his life around is in order to salvage his relationship with model Kate Moss.
http://www.itv.com/news/8053407edc6d1a68b0a165b2d2c829dd.html