The rolling "Pete Doherty arrested for drugs again today" thread.

Someone should run a steamroller over PD.

Then again, I never got the 'hero worship' thing, so don't ask me.

1) Kurt's stock went up as a lot of thirty/fortysummats caught onto him after he died, and realised he was damn good. And that he could have done better stuff had he lived.

2) I think Pete will forever continue to write stuff that's not bad but half arsed, until the day he retires, for whatever reason.

"half arsed" sounds right wrt some of the other libertines stuff i've heard though, it's like they sound like they don't practice that much or something....shambling in a sort of annoying way.

P.S.
Anyone heard that song off Dirty Pretty Things?
Who would've thought that the song from the cokehead would be any better than most of the crackhead's.

http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/22066

hilarious!!

but also really, really worrisome - people who're that far gone wind up dead quite often - both times I got outta jail the LAST thing on my mind was "ok, cool, now lemme go put myself at risk of having to go back to that horrible place"

there are people inside for whom jail doesn't suck, it instead offers them routine, security, three square meals and a nice warm bed while they get themselves relatively clean and get their heads together to try and sort their lives out. some credit a stretch with having saved their lives.

but that's where it becomes relative - if jail doesn't suck for these people, imagine how awful the rest of their skaggy/cracky/methy lives must be.

a lot of folks get 'gate happy'. in the uk they get chucked out the door w/ a £46 discharge grant and quite a few are back in reception within 48hrs.

i don't for a moment expect PD to be a responsible spokesperson (he's been behind the door too) but it does fuck me off a bit when i see the consequences every day and he continues to glamorise it as a bohemian lifestyle accessory. not quite sure why it pisses me off like this - he sounds like a chronic addict in the grip of phenomenal craving - ie. he will die early - rehab just deccelerates the inevitable. it's awful and sad and shitty - it doesn't deserve to be mythologised.

http://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/road/calabash/gyro/01/01-image.jpg

Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a car and possessing class A drugs.

There's a Viz cartoon in this, surely?

http://www.liverpool.is/myndasafn/profiles/profile_crouch_180x220.gif

This is Alexi Sayle's definition of alternative comedy

http://www.firstfoot.com/good%20scottish%20pop/Images/brits1992.JPG

But it could just be the kilt...

He's doing good, his judge says. Meanwhile, he's appearing in court tomorrow to answer 7 other drug possession charges. No mention of the stolen car arrest, that's for later.

"Doherty is accused of having 0.406 grams of heroin, 0.776 grams of crack cocaine, 0.332 grams of cannabis resin and 5.94 grams of cannabis on December 18 last year in the east of London.

And on January 14 this year, police allege he had 3.103 grams of heroin, 3.664 grams of crack cocaine and 2.503 grams of cannabis in Dunlace Road, also in east London." (source), has been adjourned for a fortnight.

Well, OK, he's not. He's just not in jail...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4925492.stm

The "with intent to supply" thing will see him banged up this time (if charged and found guilty, that is).

Oh wait...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006190560,00.html

CAGE DOHERTY THE JUNKIE SCUMBAG

Pete Doherty - the Jim Morrison of ‘urchin rock’ and the Pam Ayres of ‘gutter poetry’ – limps through another week. Once again he’s been busy doing what he does best - i.e. being a blistered scrotum of a rock star. This time, however, things are turning A LOT more poisonous.

Pete and his cartel of drug-spume band mates were messing about on Brighton beach after a gig there with a couple of young teenage female fans. Doherty – in his position of Chief Pharmacist Of The Subnormal - proceeded to inject them with heroin. One of them overdosed and turned blue. They rang an ambulance for her and then scarpered. So genial.

Another picture shows Doherty jabbing a needle into his tattooed forearm.

To be a rock star generally people have to have heard your music. I doubt most people could name any of his songs. He's just famous for being a kate moss's junkie boyfriend. His notoriety can't even get his band to Terris levels nevermind Arctic Monkeys level.

He's as much a rock star as Chantelle or Jade Goody.

Just a note to note the unjust Sun's disturbing and ridiculously offensive 'story'. Firstly the photo's are stolen from my flat so... upsetting and personally catastrophic...how rude, secondly its a staged shot and what a fucking liberty to suggest I'd b ang up a sleeping lass. fdarkness. Trafalger Sq tomorrow don't forget...Babyshambles in good form at present.. p x

Presumably from pete himself.

E.G. "Babyshambles in good form at present".

Unless he means their cribbage scores are up.

Or an each-way on him finding a tune before 2010.

!!

!

really!

Who do you mean by "most people"? The man on the Clapham omnibus? My mum? NME readers? ILXors?

I feel sorry for Pete Doherty. Drug misuse is a horrible and misunderstood thing, and he is, for whatever reason, not getting the correct help and support. He's far from the only one in his situation, doing these sorts of "seedy" "squalid" "shocking" things, he's just the most high-profile one.

If he is so talented then he should clean up and write some good songs.

Ever considered a careers as an addictions counsellor?

Still. I wish the newspapers would just stop giving him the attention that fuels this. But then again, AMP thinks it's a great soap opera and actually I do kind of agree with her. It could be better as theatre, though... Sack the current screenwrter, get Drummond back in.

I think he's had quite a bit of help and support! Unless you mean the reason is that he is a mindbendingly stupid bellend. It might help if he lost his romantic notionws about drugs and "not being much of an addict really."

it's his fans i feel sorry for.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4951078.stm

He chose to be a junkie--worked at it bcz it's not just a case of injecting once and then y're a dope fiend. If he doesn't want to come off the drugs then that's his own fault, but it does make him a laughable tit.

The Word magazine, this month:

Interviewer: "You've not got a deal at the moment, does this worry you?"
Pete: "No, there's always someone else I can get stuff from"
Int: "I meant your record deal..."

Apparently, a second album is 3/4 ready, but he's been dropped by Rough trade records.

yeah, his music!

hahahaBURN

Pete Doherty has sunk to a new low of disgusting behaviour.

The Babyshambles singer squirted a syringe-full of his own blood at two MTV News cameramen after injecting heroin in view of the production team.

The camera lens was splattered with Pete’s claret — leaving a horrified crew scared of infection and needing to sterilise thousands of pounds worth of filming equipment.

Doherty’s own bandmate Drew McConnell was so angry with the singer that he stormed off.

It is only a fortnight since The Sun printed pictures of Pete sticking a syringe into a young girl fan’s arm.

This latest stunt is equally pathetic and unforgivable.

...or this?

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty surprised fans at a gig in Germany over the weekend by dressing as a woman for his performance.

Doherty appeared on stage at Babyshambles' Cologne concert wearing a floral dress, black ripped tights and a red bra.

This response is inadequate. Pete needs help, not bandmates storming off.

He should fucking help himself, why should anyone else?

Unfortunately, however, he seems to be having too much fun living out his public personna.

However, carrying on with that career trajectory, I'm sure he'll overdose and end up dead by mistake soon enough.

Thing is, when it's so 'booked in' like this, everyone ends up going 'oh' and move on.

xpost arf.

Squirting your blood at people - is it a made up story, do you think?

maybe yr right, i dunno....anyway it's a dick move.

I like this thread.

Has there been a big backlash (or even prolash) in the NME letters page, London early readers?

I can't imagine they'll be talking about anything else.

If, by reading, you mean looking at the pretty pictures of pretty boys.

Half the time its in a cellophane wrapping in the hope people buy it instead of reading it in Smiths.

Well it wont work!

I'm really sad she never flickered it, it was very... errr... funny or something.

It could be next week, I guess. Press days being as they are.

LOOOOOOOOOSER!!!

guess who has run into drugz trouble on an easyjet flight to Barcelona !

[Doherty was heading to Barcelona for Primavera Sound Festival]
http://www.primaverasound.com/index.php?idioma=en

He was in Heat yesterday (no, I would never buy or otherwise read Heat, but this girl was reading it next to me on the train last night and I couldn't help but see) wearing THE SAME OUTFIT AS KATE MOSS, i.e. red bra and silly floral minidress.

Actually, I thought it was the best he'd looked in years, but still.

"Because of that behaviour we have decided to ban the whole of Babyshambles from Easyjet. We have a zero tolerance policy towards this type of behaviour as we think it is unfair on the other passengers."

I wonder who dealt with him. I would have thought it was a job for the Notorious Guardia Civil.

The Babyshambles frontman was fined 14,000 kronor (£1,030) but was released without other charges.

Compadres, we can confirm at short notice that a Press Conference has been called for 5pm tomorrow evening relating to a Career Announcement regarding our old Compadre Peter Doherty.
We are not dealing with the guest list here, it is for press and media only we understand, take your places up front by 5pm, members of the judiciary at the back, helicopter landing pad available on the top roof for those of you in Sky News.......
All enquiries regarding access to Angela on 0***** *** *** .........its confirm guest list only........

Showtime 5pm
There will not be an Encore........

No Drugs...No weapons...No Exceptions...
 Pete Doherty

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Maybe a bit of both? 'The Libertines Meet The Keystone Cops'?

Doherty was supposed to attend the publishing launch in his favourite pub to do a poetry reading - but failed to turn up.

Is he nearly dead yet?

Sorry, Pete, your 15 minutes were up last year already.

I would hate to be Pete Doherty, playing out a horrible existence in the glare of the tabloids. It's fairly obvious that few people care about his latest exploits, apart from the opportunites it provides for roffling at his expense on this thread, yet the media follow him around going "look Pete fucked up again! Whoo!". Really, if the media would leave him be, he'd quite possibly manage a wee bit better.

Not that it matters what I think.

I think his heroes, Chas and Dave, should take him under their protective wing(s), maybe give him a hut in one of their forests.

still not very interesting tho.

(I thought he came across remarkably well on Jonathan Ross' show)

He seems a master of manipulation and as charming as anyone dependant on the goodwill of others can be.

In a world that seems to enjoy fame by association, I thank god he's not a friend of mine. If he was, he would be my problem as well as a 'pleasure to know'.

Junkies are funny when they're on TOTP or in tabloids. But they're not funny when it's your flat they're breaking into, or your stuff they're stealing to pawn for drugs.

the next time you see that person's name will be either on a death certificate or a custody sheet. if they make it back to prison they might get another chance.

pete is likely to be another apocryphal tale. the question is whether all the media attention just becomes enabling for him as an addict. it might be what he wants but i doubt it's what he needs.

Maybe that is drug influenced, maybe not.

If he was in the BB house, everyone would be saying "OH MY GOD WHY CAN'T ANYONE SEE IN THERE WHAT HE IS!!!" and all that.

I mentioned about the glorifying that the press is doing not helping him. I mean, he's famous, he's held up as some sort of poster boy by people with romantic ideas of poetry and tortured genius (he reminds me of Richey Edwards in this respect), and, let's face it, he gets to shag a supermodel. Why is anyone beholden to world-view-skewing drugs going to look at that life and go "this is a bit shit, innit?" The fact that he's even *trying* to conquer it can only be a good thing.

(xpost)

Going on TV shows, news etc saying "I'm trying, please give me another chance" is another.

I'm not going to second-guess his motives. But if I was all over the papers as some sort of professional junkie, and thought I had more to prove, I guess I might try and tell people there's more to me than that.

I have no particular interest in Pete Doherty, by the way, other than I think it's a shame that someone who is obviously intelligent, articulate, bright, has fallen so spectacularly, and I think some of the cheap shots aimed at him, here and elsewhere, are completely unjustified.

a cautionary note: if he were ever to be convicted of administering class A drugs to a minor he would likely end up on the schedule 1 offenders list with all the paedophiles. that's not a good look in prison.

Judge: Who's there?

Pete: The police to stop a guerilla gig.

Judge: The police to stop a geurilla gig who?

Pete: Oh, bugger!

Maybe if he stopped selling stories about himself to the papers for drug money he would fare better.

His plight is funny bcz of his obstinate twattishness rather than his addiction.

I would not want him to die bcz then people would look up to him more. I think if he got an infection in his arm and it fell off so he couldn't play guitar anymore--that would be a good ending to the Doherty saga.

His plight is funny bcz of his obstinate twattishness rather than his addiction.

Obstinate twattishness = direct result of his addiction. As is selling stuff for drug money. Other addicts sell their bodies, their tellies, more drugs, etc, Doherty sells himself because people are willing to buy. Perhaps if the papers stopped BUYING his stories and funding his habit, thereby giving them more stories...oh, yeah, I see the flaw.

There is NOTHING funny about heroin addiction. Nothing at all.

oh I dunno if I'd go that far, you know what they say about tragedy + time

Pete hasn't been arrested today, but this is a sobering reminder of the effects of drugs. RIP shiny happy Pete.

Compared to the newer model, especially.

<I>Compared to the newer model, especially.</I>

Jeez, that interviewer is a douchebag.

yay

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6954897.stm

dude is pretty seriously out of control, Shaun Ryder needs to give him some counseling

i have gone from utterly annoyed by him to sad -- he is just a spotty kid :(

Spotty 28 year old.

THE POLICEMAN LOOK YOUNGER ALSO

cranky old man s on park bench complainin abt YOUNG PPL TODAY?

waht iz it babies bah

28=kid for sure

I don't think he has enough sense to clean up, we'll either be reading his obit in a few years or he'll hang around forever and become more gruesome as the years pass, and it's a waste - irritating press buzz or not, I really like his style sometimes, that out-of-breath thought-just-occurred-to-me thing he does on "Can't Stand Me Now" & "Killimangiro" - it's kind of horrible to see a guy who can't stop himself like this, not that there aren't innumerable identical stories of non-famous ppl

See you all here next month again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6956208.stm

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007410737,00.htm

he's topped himself there.

Not literally, unfortunately.

Doherty, 28, tried in vain to woo back supermodel lover Kate Moss, 33, by sending her a framed photograph of her with Dinger — with the scrawled message: “There’s no place like home.”

She asks me how the cat's been. I say, "Moses he's just fine
but he used to think about you all the time.
We finally took your pictures down off the wall.
Oh, Jessie, how do you always seem to know just when to call?"
She says, "Get your stuff together. Bring Moses and drive real fast."
And I listen to her promise, "I swear to God this time it's gonna last."

Not named after Klaus Dinger, unfortunately.

Or Thomas.

I wish they wouldn't write anything about the guy at all.

That would actually be really funny if it wasn't pathetic.

Crack Squirrels. Coming soon to the Bull and Kate.

what a piece of shit. i remember some hippies i lived by gave a cat a hit of acid and it fried its fucking brain out, was pretty much (god help me) catatonic...the poor thing had to be put to sleep.

Ha ha, I meant the Bull and Gate. Freudian slip there. (Moss,not me.)

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/8391/petedohertycrackcat1an0.jpg

i used to sort of feel sorry for this dude but now i kinda hope he dies.

how long did the hippies wait before deciding to put it to sleep, 5 hours?

it probably just thought it was a bowl of water

That would actually be really funny if it wasn't pathetic.

-- Masonic Boom, Friday, September 7, 2007 10:34 AM (2 hours ago)

pssh like the two are mutually exclusive

what a piece of shit. i remember some hippies i lived by gave a cat a hit of acid and it fried its fucking brain out, was pretty much (god help me) catatonic...the poor thing had to be put to sleep.

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, September 7, 2007 3:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

yeah i hate people who do this shit. they're always like, "dude he totally likes it man".

why are we to assume that pic is really of PD? is there some kind of proof?

They said it PASSES OUT with its paws in the air, suffers MOOD SWINGS and even thinks it can FLY.

why are we to assume that pic is really of PD? is there some kind of proof?

Who knows? It's The Sun...

anyone that already believes this is an idiot. i wouldn't have that much trouble believing this with a little more evidence and a report from anywhere besides the fucking sun online. as for now though, this is just a sick joke for shittards to trow a fit over.

at this point i'd pretty much believe it if someone told me he shot up a five year old kid with heroin while puking on a baby seal.

me too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJEw3A_QO9o

yukk

poor kitty :(

What a fucking shit's trick. (the person in the youtube clip)

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2198192,00.html

fucking hell, the law really does protect the rich, doesn't it.

Sweet.

"My life has changed, but I'm still a little bit wobbly. I am taking it one day at a time."

Surrounded by reporters and a dozen photographers, Doherty said he wanted to concentrate on his music and "get out on the road with the boys".

getting out on the road with the boys being a time-tested great idea for junkies who are "still a bit wobbly."

way to go, pete!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article430366.ece

way to go, pete!

silly boy

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article710911.ece

28 years old

"If I was that cat I’d leave on my own accord — I’d call a cab. It ain’t right. This ain’t Toys R Us. They took my cat."

^^^New meme?

no

although a HELLO THIS R TOYS R US? lolcats are welcomed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7201992.stm

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44372000/jpg/_44372316_winehousecourt_afp203300.jpg

Who am I kiddin', who am I foolin'
When they be like "What's up Fatlip?," and I say "Coolin'"
Who am I kiddin', who am I foolin'
When they be like "What's up Fatlip?," and I say "Coolin'"
Who am I kiddin', who am I foolin'
When they be like "What's up Fatlip?," and I say "Coolin'"
Who am I kiddin', who am I foolin'
When they be like

So Petie's awwright then?

He's only beating up on women (photographers) this week, no drugs-related free publicity

That and 'getting' Fergie's 'daughter' 'pregnant' http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2001_pete_doherty_baby.shtml

Take 'im down

About bleedin' time

A spokesman for the star said: "Peter was very much looking forward to the show and would like to offer his sincerest apologies to all his fans and to all those concerned."

i.e. he s a bit sorry.

RIP

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2633570.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=B43C13524355E928BD880057C0B8579DA55A1E4F32AD3138

http://www.nme.com/news/pete-doherty/35755

At long last! The talentless twat is behind bars where he belongs. He is only 'famous' for his drug life, not his music, just like that ugly talentless waste of space Amy Winehouse. You sad fans who actually waste money to see these talentless people (not even turn up most of the time!) in concert should get a clue and wake up to REAL musicians and songwriters and bands who dont live in the tabloids, and who instead let their music and classic songwriting and LPs and live performances do the talking - like Pearl Jam, Brad, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Biffy Clyro, Jimmy Eat World, Them Is Me, Gin Blossoms, Incubus... REAL bands, REAL musicians, NOT druggy lowlife talentless idiots!

hahahahahaha

A big hand for Bob "Just Say No" Dylan + Neil "Drugs Are For Mugs" Young!

Fuck the posh, talentless cunt and all his leechy hooray henry, entourage. Not only are his songs criminal, he was until now beyond the law.
Hopefully 14 years will teach the troubled asexual a lesson and he shares his cell with somebody appropriate.

Does this mean we will get a turgid book out of his comfortable prison experience.
Can't wait

lololololololololololol

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00470/Pete1_470314a.jpg

Winemouse

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bj2LALefnZM

The Daily Mail had a flood of experts decrying this flagrant 'playing with mice" irresponsibility...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44724000/jpg/_44724315_howson_doherty226x282pa.jpg

A spokesman for Doherty said: "Peter Howson has never met Pete as far as I am aware, so I don't know where he's getting his inspiration from."

He added: "We have not seen the drawings and I don't see how Peter knows that much about Pete's lifestyle."

The spokesman must be high, right?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7440449.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxbTRh1o_RU

Pete Doherty's manager has said he is "livid" after the singer's band Babyshambles were banned from playing a festival in Wiltshire later this month.

Police claimed in court that the group could incite violence at the Moonfest event in Westbury.

"violence at the moonfest" sounds like a fall out boy song.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjj8_4B5jnQU2FNgOixxfyOsHbZQD98MM9PG2

Singer Doherty detained for heroin use on flight

1 day ago

GENEVA (AP) — British singer Pete Doherty was fined by Geneva police for heroin consumption during a flight from London, authorities said Monday.

The 30-year-old rocker was picked up by officers after the 1 hour, 40-minute British Airways flight landed Friday, and held for two hours, police spokesman Jean-Philippe Brandt said Monday. Doherty then paid the fine and was released.

Brandt said Doherty was tested for heroin consumption, confirming a report in the Swiss tabloid Le Matin.

But police declined to confirm the newspaper's report that Doherty was discovered by an air hostess collapsed in a toilet, with a used syringe nearby. Air staff then contacted the police, it said.

Doherty, lead singer of Babyshambles and former boyfriend of British model Kate Moss, has had well-publicized battles with drug use. He served 29 days in a London prison last year after being caught with crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis during a probation period.

British Airways said a passenger on the flight was arrested on arrival, but that the airline was legally barred from disclosing details.

Doherty was on his way to Switzerland to present his debut solo album at a festival in the city of Neuchatel.

Brandt declined to say how much Doherty was fined.

ffs

Just OD already... jesus.

^^^ this

not surprisingly he can't even do that properly...

First proper update for over a year, let's go easy on the lad.

Isn't he still on probation? I thought he was due to get banged up again if he was using.

i have never been a junkie, but is it not possible to plan things so as to avoid needing to shoot up in the middle of an hour-40-minute flight? he must just get off on airplane bathrooms.

how'd he get on the plane with a syringe? doctor's note? what gp would write it?

Djeez - give the guy SOME credit. They find him lying down with a syringe in his arm and everyone immediately thinks it's drugs? What if he was just trying to extract some of his blood for an emergency donation to an anemic fellow passenger?

He's been arrested again

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Pete-Doherty-Arrested-On-Drink-Driving-And-Drugs-Possession-Charges-In-Gloucestershire/Article/200906215301698?lpos=Showbiz_News_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15301698_Pete_Doherty_Arrested_On_Drink_Driving_And_Drugs_Possession_Charges_In_Gloucestershire

wow, busted in two different countries in the same week. he keeps raising the bar.

he is definitely the roger federer of getting arrested for drugs.

names change but...

What is he promoting this time round? Album? Tour?

Pretty pleased that none of these reports are bothering to uphold his desire to be known as Peter from now on

Think this might be a dry zing in fact

The controversial performer's latest solo album Grace/Wastelands was attributed to Peter Doherty, rather than Pete, which critics saw as a sign of growing maturity.

Pathetic, he's 30 years old!

yeah, i tend to still think of him as being pretty young, despite the fact that when he got famous i was a teenager and i'm now 25.

That might have something to do with the fact that he's never achieved anything beyond getting arrested every few weeks. Compare him to, I don't know, Neil Young at 30, or David Bowie at 30... getting complimented for showing growing maturity at 30 years old? LOL.

He's always so sweaty in the photos they run with these articles. Is that a heroin thing? He looks so stinky.

yes.

he's never achieved anything beyond getting arrested every few weeks.

He IS pretty good at it, though.

I once read on a gossip mailout of note that he carries round a small spray bottle to give him an insta-sweaty glaze whenever the paps are in the vicinity... not saying, just saying

What if he was just trying to extract some of his blood for an emergency donation to an anemic fellow passenger?

*shivers at the thought*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8387855.stm

Singer Pete Doherty has apologised after being asked to leave a stage in Germany for performing a verse of the national anthem with Nazi connotations.

Doherty, 30, was booed after singing "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles" at a concert in Munich on Saturday that was broadcast live on Bavarian radio.

A spokesperson for the singer said he was "unaware of the controversy" about the anthem's rarely used first verse.

"He deeply apologises if he has caused any offence," he said.

The first verse of Germany's national anthem - which translates as "Germany, Germany above everything" - has been ignored since the fall of the Third Reich.

The third verse - which begins "Unity and justice and liberty for the German fatherland" - has been used since East and West Germany unified in 1990.

Public radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk stopped broadcasting from the on3 music festival when Doherty began his version of the anthem.

Video footage of the incident shows him incorporating the song with an eccentric rendition of 'Hit the Road Jack'.

Onlookers can be heard reacting angrily to the refrain, which was dropped after World War II.

According to local reports, the Babyshambles star performed five more songs before being ushered from the stage.

In a letter printed on the on3 website, Doherty's manager Adrian Hunter said the singer had "wanted to celebrate his appearance in Munich by assimilating and integrating with the crowd".

"Pete himself is from Jewish descent and has fought against racism and fascism with numerous organisations," the letter said.

"This is a subject he feels very strongly about."

Being repeatedly arrested for drugs may not be a bad career move, history has proved. Not so certain about this last thing being a good idea, though, although Bowie and Clapton survived it.

seems prophetic wit "hit the road jack"

Could it just have been stupidity? Doherty may be a lot of things, but a racist is certainly not one of them.

He got inhabited by the ghost of Sid Vicious, prob.

i would wager my house its stupidity

well, I don't care at all about him but I'm not sure many people in the world know which verse is the one used in the german national anthem and surely, since it's the same "song", I'm pretty sure most people, if asked to sing that anthem, would sing these words (not german people, of course...).

Arrested for throwing his drink at a car:

http://www.nme.com/news/pete-doherty/48759

how does this guy avoid serious, long jail time??

Drug Rocker's One-man Kristallnacht!

how does this guy avoid serious, long jail time??

his money buys top lawyers.

as someone whose job involves looking at criminal records i can tell you you can do quite a lot of shit in Britain and not get a custodial sentence.

and having money for good lawyers helps?

How much does he earn though?

Enough to support serious, hardcore drug and alcohol problems and pay for decent lawyers?

His publicist has the Big Book Of Stuff You Can Do That Gets You In The Papers But Not In Jail (by Bill Drummond, IIRC).

yeah they must've been pretty big in the UK compared to the US huh? Cuz here, i doubt they were as popular as like, i dunno, spoon

in my experience there's lot of people with no fixed abode or living in addresses in areas I know to be very deprived with numerous antecedents ranging from possession of controlled substances, to indecent exposure, to assault etc. who haven't spent time in jail. It is surprising how lenient the justice system can be. Having good lawyers is obviously a bonus, but Doherty is not some kind of strange exception.

Fined £2,000 for drink-driving, then immediately arrested for possession. Good work.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hLUI9lWv5EyAt-SAQilOr7uRHURw

Never jail Doherty, we need the funny in these dark days

Jailing Doherty *is* the funny

is there a tipping point for these minor crimes? say he was arrested for one of these things per week (drink driving, possession etc) how long would it take before he is jailed?

lol at swapping seats.

At some point a judge'll just give up and give him a year, surely? Don't know anything abt UK justice tho

UK justice runs along the lines of "If you can't pay the fine, don't do the crime"

Pete Doherty can pay the fine(s).

fucks sake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8483082.stm

Musician Pete Doherty has been fined for taking 13 wraps of heroin to court in his coat pocket.

The Babyshambles singer was arrested before Christmas in the corridor of Gloucester Crown Court, just after he had been fined for careless driving.

Security guards saw the Class A drugs fall from Doherty's pocket.

At Gloucester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, District Judge Joti Boparai said: "Either this was sheer stupidity or a ploy to get more publicity."

Doherty, 30, was charged with possession of heroin and fined £750 with £85 costs.

The court was told Doherty was not "mickey taking" and had forgotten the drugs were in one of his many coats.

The court ruled that as Doherty was paying for drug treatment privately, it would not be worth taking money from the "public purse" to put him on a rehabilitation order.

lol @ "one of his many coats"

What could be more plausible an explanation from Mr Walk-In Wardrobe himself

you'd think he'd have a whole kit of going-to-court clothes set aside by this point, to avoid this kind of thing.

If he ever donates to Oxfam, there'll be a stampede for the clothes section.

god just die already, pete.

wow, this is unbelievable.

man if i ever decide to become a junkie i'm moving to the UK

i mean i know US drug laws are kinda draconian and shit but there's gotta be a limit

A woman who was making a movie about him - Robyn Whitehead - was found dead, apparently of an overdose. An heiress of some sort?

A 'member of the Goldsmith family', says Metro. I didn't realise that was a thing.

fuck. fucking hell. i know her father a little. writing about him at the moment. he made a film about the libertines -- never shown so far as i know -- ages ago.

oh, is her dad peter whitehead?

yeah.

:-(

hmmm, feel bad about wishing death on junkie pete doherty now.

charlie was her darling

He *is* death. He's tall enough.

Tonite Let's All Take Drugs in London

How good is the heroin REALLY over there?

So good it jumps out of coats by itself.

Not new news as such, but The Mail goes to town on Doherty today, including unflattering photo. Wolfman's not looking too healthy, and I think that's actually a good picture of him.

it's really odd how obsessed the mail is with that smack owl london indie set (pete/towers of london/wolfie/winehouse) they lap it up!

To his admirers, Doherty is a Byronic figure whose notoriety attracts rather than repels,

Well he's released about as many albums recently as Byron.

And, according to residents in some of his favourite haunts in East London, he is often sockless.

= automatic inclusion on disgusting savages list.

Outside, there is broken glass and scores of empty wine, beer (including Carlsberg Special Brew) and spirit bottles.

I lolled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8488163.stm

The manager of musician Pete Doherty has admitted dangerous driving after a crash in Suffolk critically injured a pedestrian.

Chris Corder, 42, of Hadleigh, remains in a coma after being run over in the town on 27 September. He was delivering church newsletters at the time.

At Ipswich Crown Court, Andrew Boyd, 42, of north west London, also admitted failing to stop at an accident scene.

Boyd was released on bail and is due to be sentenced at a later date.

He also pleaded guilty to failing to report an accident, driving without reasonable consideration, driving not in accordance with a licence and without insurance.

'Comforting a child'

His barrister Chris Henley told the court that the accident happened when Mr Boyd tried to comfort a four-year-old child who was sitting in the back seat of the Daimler car.

"He must have momentarily taken his eye off the road and at that moment Mr Corder must have stepped onto the road and very unfortunately the collision took place," said Mr Henley.

"The instinctive reaction of Mr Boyd was not to stop, he should have and he recognises that.

"The prosecution accept that the dangerous driving is him leaving the scene."

Adjourning sentence for a pre-sentence report, Judge David Goodin told Mr Boyd: "The offences you pleaded guilty to are serious ones.

"It may very well be that custody is the only sentence for you."

Mr Boyd, of Kentish Town, was served with an interim driving ban.

Wow. Church newsletters vs. Comforting a child. I don't know whose side I'm supposed to be on anymore.

Does anything bad ever happen to Pete himself, or is it just everyone he ever comes into contact with?

would be hard-pressed to say that anything good ever happens to him. he's a junkie who hasn't made a single decent record.

For Lovers was at least half-decent

In a shock twist, not arrested today but given 12-month driving ban instead. To run concurrently with an 18-month ban already imposed.

To run concurrently with an 18-month ban already imposed.

ooh, harsh

Yo dawg, I heard you like bans, so I put a ban inside your ban so you can not drive while you don't drive.

lol

Singer Pete Doherty was arrested last week on suspicion of supplying drugs following the death of heiress Robin Whitehead, it has emerged.

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/pete-doherty-arrested-over-drugs-death

He's got a supply charge. Other people arrested for perverting the course of justice too.

― the cream of some young guy (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, December 15, 2008 11:52 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Indie icon Pete Doherty has been arrested by police

Never heard of Clashmusic, but credibility scuppered when this no mark is described as an icon.

People jabber about him a lot and loads of impressionable nitwits think he's great = he's an icon

you or I don't get to make the rules here

An icon for being arrested for drugs more than anyone ever before.

Oh, and, actually he has written some great songs throughout the 00s too.

not arrested but:

http://www.nme.com/news/pete-doherty/51478

Pete Doherty refused entry to the US to play gig in New York

June 12, 2010

Pete Doherty was refused entry to the US yesterday (June 10) to play a gig in New York.

Set to perform with Sean Lennon, Adam Green and Charlotte Kemp Muhl at Milk Studios, Doherty made it as far as John F Kennedy International Airport before being denied entry into the US.

As Brooklyn Vegan reports, the Libertines and Babyshambles man was then forced to get on the next flight back to London.

here we go again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/29/pete-doherty-cocaine-charge

8 Aug 2009:

Ricky Gervais,
Katie Price,
Pete Doherty
and more confess
the last time
they told a lie

I guess this is actually an encouraging move for him.

He's easily encouraged.

so, am i correct in thinking that the man has been connected to 2 deaths in recent years ?

(the bloke who fell from balcony @ party PD was at, and this one)

what a piece of shit. he makes shane mcgowan look healthy.

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what a piece of shit. he makes shane mcgowan look healthy.

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man idk about that

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://musicblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/macgowan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://musicblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/2009/07/interview-shane-macgowan-of-th.html&usg=__LwJziMkOeVjIC0_w3rwRLjJgiu4=&h=500&w=600&sz=40&hl=en&start=10&zoom=1&tbnid=0fxHgoqPOWQklM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=172&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshane%2Bmacgowan%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D583%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C468&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=418&ei=TWmjTLPUBIKclgeLstCqBA&oei=L2mjTLXiKISglAfohLH-Ag&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:10&tx=99&ty=53&biw=1024&bih=583

http://www.thestylebitches.com/website/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/shane.jpg

Not looking too bad these days....

a busy day

2 February 2011 Last updated at 13:12

Babyshambles Singer Doherty denies drug charge
Pete Doherty outside court Pete Doherty posed for photographs outside court

* Doherty in court on drugs charge
* Doherty faces fresh drugs charges

Singer Pete Doherty has appeared in court to deny possessing cocaine.

The Babyshambles star was charged after an inquiry into the death of filmmaker Robin Whitehead, 27, who was found dead in a flat in Hackney in January 2010.

He posed with fans outside the court and pleaded not guilty at the preliminary hearing at Thames Magistrates' Court in east London.

Judge Jacqueline Comyns committed the case to Snaresbrook Crown Court on 29 March.

The preliminary hearing was originally due to be held on 14 January but was adjourned after Mr Doherty, 31, of Marlborough, Wiltshire, and two fellow defendants failed to attend.

Alan Wass, 29, of Latimer Road, west London, was also charged with cocaine possession.

Peter Wolfe, 42, of Maidstone, faces two counts of cocaine possession and one count of supplying the drug.

The pair, who also deny the charges, are due to appear at the hearing on 29 March.

Ms Whitehead, a member of the wealthy Goldsmith family, had been making a documentary about the musician when she died.

and a few hours later..

2 February 2011 Last updated at 19:47

Pete Doherty meets police over Mark Blanco flat death
Pete Doherty Pete Doherty was questioned about the death of a 30-year-old man who fell from a balcony in 2006

* Fatal party fall inquiry reopened
* Man falls two floors to his death
* Singer Doherty denies drug charge

Singer Pete Doherty has been interviewed by police over the death of an actor at a party in December 2006.

Mark Blanco, 30, died after falling from a balcony in Whitechapel, east London.

Scotland Yard initially said he had jumped deliberately but a coroner ordered a second independent investigation in 2007.

Doherty was not formally questioned but voluntarily attended a police station, his solicitor Sean Curran said.

The 31-year-old musician had agreed "to help them with their inquiries", Mr Curran added.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "We have made no arrests.

"Inquiries continue and we are not prepared to discuss who we may or may not have spoken to."

The coroner's ruling led to Mr Blanco's family paying for their own specialist reports on how he suffered fatal head injuries.

These included a study by neurobiology expert Professor Richard Wassersug, who said if the Cambridge graduate from Shoreditch had deliberately jumped, he would not have been hurt in the same way.

oops at that formatting

God, somebody should just cap him.

I persoally know a few people who would support that statement - friends of Mark Blanco

personally?

(That wasn't me correcting spelling, was me asking)

I know people who knew him

ah.

Hacked out all of the irrelevant "share this page" bollocks from those 2 quotes.

thanks!

Has Pete ever thrown cooked artichokes in someone's face?

Good grief :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/09/pete-doherty

actual six-month stretch for our hero

Apparently not in jail anymore?

nope and running a shop
http://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2013/aug/13/pete-doherty-opened-shop-camden-market

Boy you hate to make cracks about certain stereotypes re: the UK and teeth but

well, heroin does that

But American junkies have much better teeth

not their own though!

Pete Doherty ejected and slugged.

http://www.nme.com/news/the-libertines/90145

"He can't have been in the room for more than a minute or two before some kerfuffle broke out across the room - you'd have to ask him what that was about, although good luck getting anything out of him as he surely won't fucking remember - and he fell across to the side of the room where I was sat having a chat with Gary [Libertines drummer] and a couple of friends."

[Adam] Franklin [out of Swervedriver] alleges that Doherty "then suddenly took a swing at me and missed, I stood up and decked him and that was it. Gary, who I have to say is a lovely bloke, helped get him out of the room and [Doherty] was screaming "He hit me! He hit me!" while people were pointing out to him that he had in fact tried to hit me first."

He's not been arrested, no.

But he had some breakfast.

I was tempted to post the pics and story on a new thread: "My dog's body is a temple..."

He's not been arrested, no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:22 (one hour ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He can't get arrested, the way his career is going.

pete looks like he had a bath in the kitchen grease before they cooked his breakfast in it

https://ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/695/cpsprodpb/1603B/production/_103117109_39935700_10155503286006541_1818437742367866880_n.jpg

god knows how long that’s all gonna be sloshing around his guts given that junkies usually only poop once every couple of months

I thought he finally came off the drugs three years ago? If I remember correctly, he went to rehab in Thailand and kicked it - the last Libertines album was recorded in Thailand so as to ensure Doherty didn't get, uh, "distracted" ...

he was busted for heroin in 2017 so

Ah, I didn't know that. He seemed to be making real progress, too.

Progress towards what though?

not being wasted ALL the time is progress, imo

Let's hope he manages it before he turns 40. Next year.

your regular reminder that addiction is awful and almost no-one kicks for good

i would feel bad for him if it wasn't for the whole "he's potentially a murderer" thing

*cough*

Makes sense given that there is no heroin in Thailand to speak of

oh, witty rejoinder to a year old post, nice work me

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/11/pete-doherty-arrested-paris-libertines

“[Pete wanted to] go and celebrate his liberation in a bar near him. He drank and people made him drink.”

he splits his time between some british place, Paris, and Melun : but Melun is a fairly dire city in the Paris outskirts, which I've had too many occasions to visit for bureaucratic reasons, and I reckon he lives there just for the easy access to drugs such a place offers. I doubt it's for the brie, but maybe!

some british place = Margate. I blame Chas & Dave.

Margate, right! doesn't look too bad!
the Melun media, such as it is, has been pretty excited that Doherty lives there...maybe too excited (https://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/09/22/musique/musique/pete-doherty-habite-a-melun-quand-le-parisien-confond-le-musicien-avec-un-inconnu/)

Sadly, Margate is now full of dicks like Pete Doherty.

It's the South, stands to reason

There have been plenty of worse people in the history of pop than Pete Doherty, but was there ever a bigger timewaster than him? There's something absolutely laughable about him.

Not many that made it to their 40s.

It's kinda cute* that anybody anywhere still gives one microfuck about him

*sad, tedious

I do find it amusing that he's now the same age as Vince Hill probably was when "Anarchy in the UK" was released.

shocked he's lasted 13 years since this thread started