Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Pete Doherty from The Libertines: Not So Much Up The Bracket As Completely Unhinged.

Readers who are as sharp-eyed as they are regular may recall that Parallax View rarely misses an opportunity to make a cheap dig at over-hyped under-talented The Libertines. But even Dead Kenny can find a smidgeon of sympathy for hapless singer Pete Doherty who has pleaded guilty to breaking into a (fellow band member Carl) Barat home.

"Yes I'm a heroin addict, yes I'm addicted to crack cocaine, and I don't know what to do," he said.

"When I was arrested for burglary, they found traces of opiates and crack cocaine in my blood. I'm all cut up, unsure, I don't know what I'm doing, I need a good kicking and I need some help."


Would be nice to think that certain members of the music press who indulged and encouraged his eccentric behaviour and peculiar delusions will be first in the queue to drive him to wherever he needs help, probably a psychiatrist or rehab clinic or both, but in truth that notion is fanciful. Doherty has been revealed as less a tormented genius, more a lost and troubled young lad way out of his depth who's sure to now find out who his true friends are and is unlikely, I fear, to find many in the shark-infested cesspool of the music industry.

(link via No Rock 'n' Roll Fun)

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