A sailor of the Albion

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“Don’t call me a rockstar, that’s like me calling you a daytime TV host” - @Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviews Pete Doherty. #C4News

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Hate to be a bother but I'm kinda new to the libertines fan base, and I was wondering if there's any videos or inside jokes that every fan should know? I know the history of the band etc but I mean funny/nice things?

this is possibly the hardest question i ever recieved, but…

together with @stars-are-stars we tried to make a short-list of our favorite moments, and sorry, it’s gonna be a long post.

1. Bismarck!!!   link 

2. The Libertines In The Van link 

3.  Libertines Back Stage At NME Awards link 

4. “i need my biggles” link

5. “It’s like comparing an oak tree to a buffalo” link 

6. “Whose place is this?” link

7. Steve’s teeth story:

 Did you make much from busking?

Pete: “Then there was that time with Scarborough Steve [Bedlow, former singer/cohort]. It was about nine in the morning, a Sunday, and we’d run out of booze so he suggested we go out busking. He’d just had some of his teeth knocked out and had some temporary ones in. Falsies. We were all absolutely mangled by now and it was afternoon by the time we got down to the bridge. A boiling hot day. These Japanese girls walked past and said, ‘Do Twist and Shout!’, so we started singing: ‘Well shake it up baby now’, and when we got to ‘You know you look so good’, Steve’s tooth fell out.”

Carl: “It landed in an old Nescafé tin that we had as our pot. Then a car ran over it. Those girls were disgusted.”

8. Carpet burn story link (read the whole interview, it’s AMAZING)

Carl:Shut up John, just cos (mutters something inaudible to tape) Have you seen thecarpet burn on my knee? Where did I get it from? [Carpet burn. On his knee.Gah.]

John: Gary (repeats Gary many times whilst Carl brandishes his knee at Pippa)Carl: Gary? Was it? I thought it was Pete!John: I thought you had a fight with him?Carl: I can’t remember! I was too drunk..

9. Umbrella story from Kids in the riot:

“We’d been up all night, bombing around Tokyo, breaking into bars. We found this funny complex where the lifts went up to different bars and we found ourselves on this level where the bar was actually locked so we bust open the door and the pair of us stole bottles of gin and an umbrella.”

10. The Bucket Shop & Dream a Little Dream, The Libertines, 8/11/2000. Just watch. link 

11. Tandem-girl story from Kids in the riot:

It was just girls, girls, girls. In Munich, I went off on a tandem with this girl, back to her place. She insisted on playing Suede. So it’s afterwards and I want to go back to the venue because there’s this other girl and I wanna get to her before Carl does, but the tandem-girl locks me in the bathroom so I think, ‘Disaster,’ and actually end up booting the door through and she was screaming, screaming, screaming and she was naked as well. She’s had my clothes away, and I’ve had to jump back on her bike and race through the streets of Munich with just a hat on, back to the bus. And at the end of the night we had to leave Munich because we couldn’t stay and Carl was just snogging this girl endlessly and I’m stood there like fucking Hancock, when Sid James has pulled and he hasn’t. That was the girl that I’d cycled back for.”

12. “Vertical smile”. No comments :) 

“An encounter where he and fellow band member Carl Barat had sex with two fans in a disabled toilet after a gig on their 2003 Scandinavian tour was typical.“We met a right old punk who took me and Carl under his wings and took us to the sleaziest club, a proper rock ‘n’ roll dive with all these garage kids,” said Doherty.“I remember fuckng this girl in the toilets, on the floor, proper sort of sliding about the tiles and Carl came in with another girl, as cool as you like and bent her over the toilet.“Yeah, he had a smile on his face. And a vertical smile on his bum.”

13. Christmas interview(or “I used to take him to Arcadia and back“)  link

What’s your favorite Christmas carol?

Pete: “Oh, that French one, Carol Debois, she’s lovely.”

Gary: “Mine is (sings) Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robinlaid an egg, Batmobile lost its wheel, then the Joker got away, hey!”

Carl, where will you be this Christmas?

Carl: “I shall be in Watership Down. That’s where my mumlives. The cat brings in rabbits from time to time. I saw that, the cat gotfrisbeed last year by a fucking juggernaut.”

Pete: “I used to go there and meet his mum…”

Carl: “Er, with me.”

Pete: “…and he used to take me into the wild woods.”

Carl: “I used to take him to Arcadia and back.”

Pete: “It was pitch black. And I’d see (Greek God) Pan.”

Carl: “He saw Pan and he came running with his tailbetween his legs. We didn’t even know he had a tail ‘til then. Since then he’skept it very short.”

14. Libertines on Soccer A.M. 2015, or “Carl does it better”  link

15. ‘Carl’s not my lover. I’d rather toss off a frog’ 2015 link 

16. Playing in nursing homes link

17. Gary: Kanye West 2015 link

18. IBIZA 2015. Interview  photos

19. Carl punching Gary, Gary kissing Carl, Q awards 2015 link 

20. Embarassingly drunk Libs accepting NME award, 2016 link

21. Eskimo kisses at the british tv, 2016 link 

22. GAY ETC

23. and also this, as a bonus link

Also you can watch video compilations of different videos here:

carl barat and pete doherty (2001-2002)

carl barat and pete doherty (2003 - 2005)

Many Faces of Carl Barat

the real peter doherty

This took from us fucking ages to make, sooooo…. you are welcome. 

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i’ll just leave this here

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Carl’s writing / Peter’s writing. 

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Early days https://instagram.com/p/BGuobhXoj0K/

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SHE THAT'S PETER

We all know that Carl wrote Ballad of Grimaldi for Peter and here’s the list of the song I believe he also wrote about him

Come Closer

Had love and I set it free But it never came back to me, now The skies have gone ugly From Bolton to rugby

Chinese Dogs

Well it took you seven years To learn my name And I know it’s all the drugs and booze that are to blame What a shame Well it took me seven years To forget your name All the drugs, all the fools And the hanging around I fell out the game What a shame What would it take for me to be your man What would it take to make you understand The world has gone cold

Deadwood

This all you make it? You had the choice lad You wouldn’t take it The oldest charm And the years of my life, Some they were so good, But now and again I feel I was a coward Are the holes in my soul In tatters for all these tears Well you don’t see it that way

Faultlines 

The fights, they never end Like the nights, they’ve taken me over And yeah I get the fear But I cannot be bothered All this waiting is just hesitating for nothing And the fault lines And all the conjecture from both sides Why oh why can’t we change things This is destroying me inside You know you wanna run away We shared out dreams And nearly everything in between I’ll never forget those Long lost days in a haze Where we lost ourselves with no apology

Bang Bang You’re Dead

I knew all along  That I was right at the start  bout the seeds of the weeds  That grew in your heart  Self satisfaction for the factions  Who formed to tear us apart  Well I gave you the Midas touch  Oh you turned round and scratched out my heart 

B.U.R.M.A.

So when the dark times come well I will sing you a good time song I’m pretending that it’s ending but it kills me to act so strong Just to gaze in your eyes, makes all the difference to me

Radio Song

Put your arms around me girl cause I don’t know what to do I’m spinning on a sixpence cause I’m still in love with you We were vagabond souls put together sniffing glue Your radio songs were all I really knew Did you think I had a wind up heart? You must have had plastic head Did you think I had to play the part when you copied everything I said? I’m sorry sorry sorry if your getting me wrong but you’re half a world away with only one sock on Now your getting too much so I want to play along cause all I really wanted was a radio song

Gin & Milk

See I really like you But I’m nothing like you I try really so hard But don’t get so far You get my respect But we don’t connect Were in it together So I’ll love you forever I love you forever

Carve My Name

And I carved my name on the livers of my lovers, The hearts of all my brothers Forgive me, love So take away the poet’s pen, and never speak of love again Break the hands that made a pair And never will I need to care  Anyway

Irony of Love

It begins with how I fell for you Saw myself in your eyes I should have known how that would lead To my own sweet demise  When they said, “He’s going to get his fucking head kicked in, “He’s going to die in a fucking loony bin!” Darling, oh, darling…  This is the song I never wrote for you I know I said I would It might have turned out differently If things had worked out good  By your side the music rose My heart would leap and bound And the chilling feeling that maybe I Could lose what I had found  Then the hate, and hurt, and poisoned tongues Ran out across the town And then I guess the music stopped When you were sleeping ‘round  I suppose we never tried  You know I could have married you

Shadows Fall

And one day we’ll meet again I’ll be wind, you’ll be rain Chasing ‘round like lovers of old times.  And you know I’ve loved you so And I will till the end of days But as I go, I want you to know: You are loved

So Long My Lover

We met when you were oh so young I took you from that drunken bum And held you like some father Oh we were both born for each other Oh yes you were so full of hope then, you see You’d be a dancer and sing with me You danced your dance and my sweet song was sung. Oh I was reckless, you were free I took you ‘round the world with me So holy together No devils would tear us apart The lights were bright on Harley Street And with the future at our feet we held on to each other and somewhere lost our way

The Fall

We quick-stepped into love Like Fred and Ginger in a trance At all the most exclusive balls Always we dreamt to dance The snakes and devils of our past Were scrupulously ignored I said, “I think it’s over now,” She said, “I’m not so sure.” We turned our fury on each other She crucified my confidence I’d hung to to recover We’d tighten up the thumbscrews And still scream out for more I said, “I think it’s over now,” She said, “I’m not so sure.”

The Magus

We´ll drink brandy when they´re gone now Dancing to our old time songs now Don´t forget the good old days Where have the flowers gone now? Gone to young girls everyone now That´s the price we´ll have to pay

Ballad of Grimaldi

Because you’ll tell me what you want and I’ll avoid it Tell it to the sick and to the damned Tell me what you love, watch me destroy it Your love just crumbles in my hands But if you stay for a while I’ll try to think of something kind to say Maybe we should pray for a while St. Jude might hear my pleas, come to me, see me on my bended knees She knows I adore you

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Carl Barat: ‘we’ve just started to make plans again’

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So for laffs I asked a friend of mine who is into analysing body language and who doesn’t know a whole lot about Peter and Carl to take a look at their interactions and offer me an outsider’s insight. Because, well, sometimes I feel way, way too deep inside it - haha! She watched their Jools Holland interview, and here’s what she said. Just a fun little project we did today over email, while bored at work!

My mate: “See, I’m more about the body language rather than what they’re saying (it’s very easy to lie when you’re talking, but the body language will always give you away). Something like 70% of all communication is done through body language! Firstly there are all these adoring, intense stares…The completely gratuitous, affectionate and unnecessary neck and shoulder rubs…The cheeky, knowing smirks (like they’re hiding a secret)…Also, why do they have to sit so close?! There’s a whole table! This is a very couple-y move…The flirty exchanges – body language experts say exposing your wrist to someone is a way of flirting and showing them you’re sexually attracted to them (it’s most common in women, but Pete is doing it to Carl here). Conclusion: I don’t know enough about their relationships, but Pete never had that sort of chemistry with Kate Moss. Just saying.”

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#for real though #everyone’s got their own fucking mugs on the table #there are literally enough mugs to go around #it’s not like one of them accidentally took the other’s mug #they have specifically chosen to drink from the same mug #like that’s normal #and it’s completely unspoken #neither of them is being like #wait why are you giving me your spitty mug with your backwash in it get me my own mug #it’s like yeah cheers *drinks the spitty backwash without thinking* #so anyway football

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Interviewer: What’s your favourite bus route?

Pete Doherty: The number 38. It goes from Piccadilly through to Essex Road and beyond.

Interviewer: Where’s the most interesting place you’ve had sex?

Pete Doherty: The number 38. It goes from Piccadilly through to Essex Road and beyond.

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(со страницы https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYLwsO0-JQ)

The Libertines (Live Reading 2015 Full\Completo Set HD)

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from Time Out London

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Timeout: What advice would you give to a young band just starting out?

Pete: ‘You should start that question “Is there any advice…”’

Timeout: Is there any advice…?

Pete: ‘No.’

Carl: ‘Nothing apart from “Keep the faith!” It’s the hardest thing in the world, and the easiest.’

Pete: ‘Just don’t listen to the naysayers who say that it’s a crap idea to put on this certain event at this certain place. Just do it. Play the really dodgy pub at the end of the street. You could meet a songwriting partner. You could get a blowjob. I don’t know.’

Carl: ‘You could get both, if you read the fan fiction.’

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