About five years ago a band from London shot onto the music scene with all the outlaw images and iconic camaraderie Keith Richards would be proud of. That band was The Libertines. Like Blur ten years earlier they were concerned about our American cousins (The Strokes, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, The Killers, etc, etc) coming over here and ‘taking our jobs’ – if you know what I mean?
The Libertines gave it a good stab and released one of the finest albums of the decade in ‘Up the Bracket’. Since then, it’s all gone a bit tits-up for the most famous Libertine of them all: the much troubled Pete Doherty
I was reading a rather interesting article about Peter (as he likes to be knows as now) the other day. The man really has got nine lives
Doherty is a rather colourful character that has basically got away with more convictions (22 times he’s been ‘let off’ from court appearances by the way of paying a measly fine) is hardly one to shy away from the eyes of the media and to honest here, you could say he’s a rather bad sort.
So, why lately are there so many people popping up with stories about his alleged association with two recently deceased people? The evidence seems pretty circumstantial against Doherty, but somehow the finger of blame is always pointed firmly in his direction when ever anything bad happens.
Known to many people in and around the London underground party scene, as ‘The Pied Piper’, Doherty is fast becoming a bad luck charm to people who hang around with him.
The recent cases of Robyn Whitehead and Marc Blanco are the two examples I read about in the above mentioned article. Blanco, who bizarrely enough fell from a 1st floor window that was occupied at the time by Doherty and some of his cronies, was actually putting on a play entitled “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist”. How’s that for a twist of fate?
Anyway, both of the above rather unfortunate souls died in mysterious circumstances with, it has to be said, rather tenuous links to Doherty if you ask me! But then again, as we have seen recently with the John Terry scandal = some people pursue the press for money and, it has to be said here, money. Doherty, I feel, doesn’t seek the media attention, but, because of his shenanigans, I just feel the media ‘seek him’! A marriage of convenience wouldn’t you say?
Now, I know your thinking here about what could possibly be my point? Well it’s this: Peter Doherty is not a priest, he’s not a baby sitter, he’s not a premiership football player and he’s definitely without a shadow of a doubt no saint. In short, he’s no role model. What he is though is a bad arse rock star that lives his life very much on the darker side of life and if that’s how he wishes to live his life, so be it!
I don’t think he’s after praise from his peers, he’s not after a knighthood and he’s certainly not after a presenter’s job on Blue Peter. He just wants to be left the fuck alone to get on with his own life no matter how debauched he may wishes it to get!
As for Doherty’s interest in what made him famous in the first place: music. I feel he’s not really interested in that anymore and that his one true love, sadly, is drugs. Bit of a waste if you ask me as before he started taking the more serious drugs (Heroin, Crack, etc, etc) it has to be said: he was one of British Music’s shining lights that took on the ‘American Invasion’, sadly, as the lyrics in one of his goes:
“The boy kicked out at the world, but the world kicked back”
Best leave him to it if you ask me
Mol
Thursday, 4 February 2010
For Pete's Sake!!!
About five years ago a band from London shot onto the music scene with all the outlaw images and iconic camaraderie Keith Richards would be proud of. That band was The Libertines. Like Blur ten years earlier they were concerned about our American cousins (The Strokes, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, The Killers, etc, etc) coming over here and ‘taking our jobs’ – if you know what I mean?
The Libertines gave it a good stab and released one of the finest albums of the decade in ‘Up the Bracket’. Since then, it’s all gone a bit tits-up for the most famous Libertine of them all: the much troubled Pete Doherty
I was reading a rather interesting article about Peter (as he likes to be knows as now) the other day. The man really has got nine lives
Doherty is a rather colourful character that has basically got away with more convictions (22 times he’s been ‘let off’ from court appearances by the way of paying a measly fine) is hardly one to shy away from the eyes of the media and to honest here, you could say he’s a rather bad sort.
So, why lately are there so many people popping up with stories about his alleged association with two recently deceased people? The evidence seems pretty circumstantial against Doherty, but somehow the finger of blame is always pointed firmly in his direction when ever anything bad happens.
Known to many people in and around the London underground party scene, as ‘The Pied Piper’, Doherty is fast becoming a bad luck charm to people who hang around with him.
The recent cases of Robyn Whitehead and Marc Blanco are the two examples I read about in the above mentioned article. Blanco, who bizarrely enough fell from a 1st floor window that was occupied at the time by Doherty and some of his cronies, was actually putting on a play entitled “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist”. How’s that for a twist of fate?
Anyway, both of the above rather unfortunate souls died in mysterious circumstances with, it has to be said, rather tenuous links to Doherty if you ask me! But then again, as we have seen recently with the John Terry scandal = some people pursue the press for money and, it has to be said here, money. Doherty, I feel, doesn’t seek the media attention, but, because of his shenanigans, I just feel the media ‘seek him’! A marriage of convenience wouldn’t you say?
Now, I know your thinking here about what could possibly be my point? Well it’s this: Peter Doherty is not a priest, he’s not a baby sitter, he’s not a premiership football player and he’s definitely without a shadow of a doubt no saint. In short, he’s no role model. What he is though is a bad arse rock star that lives his life very much on the darker side of life and if that’s how he wishes to live his life, so be it!
I don’t think he’s after praise from his peers, he’s not after a knighthood and he’s certainly not after a presenter’s job on Blue Peter. He just wants to be left the fuck alone to get on with his own life no matter how debauched he may wishes it to get!
As for Doherty’s interest in what made him famous in the first place: music. I feel he’s not really interested in that anymore and that his one true love, sadly, is drugs. Bit of a waste if you ask me as before he started taking the more serious drugs (Heroin, Crack, etc, etc) it has to be said: he was one of British Music’s shining lights that took on the ‘American Invasion’, sadly, as the lyrics in one of his goes:
“The boy kicked out at the world, but the world kicked back”
Best leave him to it if you ask me
Mol
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