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

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http://www.nme.com/news/babyshambles/22064

As opposed to last week, when he came out of court after having been summonsed to appear after having been arrested oh whenever.

Just so's we can keep up.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell, how much of that nme page is content and how much is adverts?

Someone should run a steamroller over PD.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Haha I like hoiw the pic says "9 minutes ago" under it. It's like their version of "x, yesterday".

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh No, What's Wrong With Carl Barat?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing that could happen is that Pete dies. Then he will become a new Cobain figure for countless people.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

If those countless people didn't screw their lives up via drugs, then that would be a positive.

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I imagine that most of them would think "wow cool" rather than "what a sorry waste of space he is", so no positive result. We would have to endure much more "what a genius OMG he died too young we miss you ~~kurt~~ pete" than if he'd just fade into obscurity.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

otm. I too fear this outcome.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I don't think this would happen.

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.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

that albion song is pretty cool, i thought....nice ray davies type song, pretty....

"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.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but that song was one of their oldest ones (i.e. one of the first Libertines' songs, saved for when they could do it 'justice' i.e. never)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

If he had come out with a half decent album and recorded some good tunes to releas post mortem, then he could go on overdose or whatever and become a legend, the way things have depeloved he wont. So, go Fuck Yourself Pete.

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.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Most people would have thought it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"Pete Doherty arrested for second time today"

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

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Do people other than me actually enjoy the Libertines? Just curious.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

why doesn't he hire someone to carry his drugs for him? Duh.

― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I like about 3 of their songs well enough. Babyshambles are another story.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

TWO TIMES IN ONE DAY

hilarious!!

― brokenfuses (brokenfuses), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I hope they released him in time for a 3rd!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

twice in one day is, like, heroically dumb & 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"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, jail sucks.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

he's beginning to rival johnny thunders in completely pathetic sad junky hi-jinks.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

God, I can't keep up.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Someone should start a rolling thread, just so's we can keep up.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

OK, here it is.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Jail sucks indeed. an immense contained concentration of human misery.

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.

― john clarkson, Friday, 27 January 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

i heard he killed a man for a gyro.

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

― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Doherty arrested for 'car theft':

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

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a career and possessing no talent.

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

I had a dream that I was well into The Libertines and he was really talented.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Message for Bill Drummond : please stop this.

― snowballing (snowballing), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

How unlucky can a guy get? He packs the drugs, moves over to nicking cars, and goes and nicks one full of drugs and gets caught!

There's a Viz cartoon in this, surely?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Regarding the creation of the 'Pete Doherty' character, Bill Drummond mentioned in his book that he really likes to flog an idea at the precise point where everyone is really sick of it. He believes ideas have a lot of power at that moment. Which is characteristically perverse of him.

― ratty, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Pete Doherty to Bill Drummond.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I just wonder who isn't Bill Drummond these days. Maybe you're all fuckin Bill Drummond.

― ratty, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

I am not Bill Drummond, I am the KMF.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Billdog Drummond

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Meet Pete Doherty

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

No doubt, Kate, you fancy Pete Doherty. Thin, English, pale, troubled - he's definitely your type. Whereas I'm willing to bet you don't fancy Bill Drummond, as you probably dislike extremely tall men with long faces and situationist leanings who do things like putting tins of baked beans into soup when no-one's looking.

― ratty, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

You'd be half right, rat.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Ah.

― ratty, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't be the only person who finds this whole Bill Drummond/KLF idea NOT FUNNY AT ALL?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

No, you're not.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Thin, English, pale, troubled

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

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I think the fact that Bill Drummond's jokes are not funny is the point. It's that modern art jokes-that-are-not-funny thing that Matthew Collings talked about in that book that costs too much.

― ratty, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Jokes that aren't funny, that's clever

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

I've never thought of Drummond as someone who does jokes.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

*Jokes that aren't funny*

This is Alexi Sayle's definition of alternative comedy

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

God, no, Ratty, you're completely wrong on both counts. I never fancied Pete, I fancied Carlos. And Bill Drummond slots into the "bonkers but genius mad scientist/conceptual artist" archetype (see: Damien Hirst, HSA, etc.) so, er, conceptually, I probably do fancy him.

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

drummond isn't trying to be funny, though, he's trying to make a point about the nature of celebrity.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

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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.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

oops at that formatting

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

God, somebody should just cap him.

― Ass Mutha Temple (kkvgz), Thursday, 3 February 2011 12:51 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 February 2011 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

personally?

― Mark G, Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Mark G, Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

I know people who knew him

― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

ah.

― Mark G, Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Pashmina, Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:34 (fifteen years ago)

thanks!

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 February 2011 13:34 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:46 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Good grief :

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

― My Teenage Neo-Prog Shame (Matt #2), Thursday, 10 March 2011 11:00 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

actual six-month stretch for our hero

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 May 2011 13:58 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Apparently not in jail anymore?

― kkvgz, Monday, 25 July 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:14 (twelve years ago)

well, heroin does that

― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

But American junkies have much better teeth

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:20 (twelve years ago)

not their own though!

― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:25 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Pete Doherty ejected and slugged.

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

― how's life, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:30 (ten years ago)

"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."

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:52 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

He's not been arrested, no.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:22 (seven years ago)

But he had some breakfast.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:35 (seven years ago)

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

― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:57 (seven years ago)

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.

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:24 (seven years ago)

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

― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:42 (seven years ago)

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

― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:42 (seven years ago)

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

― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:44 (seven years ago)

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" ...

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:49 (seven years ago)

he was busted for heroin in 2017 so

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:51 (seven years ago)

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

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:53 (seven years ago)

Progress towards what though?

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:34 (seven years ago)

not being wasted ALL the time is progress, imo

― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:55 (seven years ago)

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

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:58 (seven years ago)

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

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:08 (seven years ago)

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

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:08 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

*cough*

― StanM, Sunday, 10 November 2019 19:41 (six years ago)

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

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 10 November 2019 20:03 (six years ago)

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

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 10 November 2019 20:04 (six years ago)

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.”

― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Monday, 11 November 2019 14:49 (six years ago)

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!

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 11 November 2019 14:58 (six years ago)

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

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:07 (six years ago)

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/)

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:25 (six years ago)

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

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:28 (six years ago)

It's the South, stands to reason

― Joe Kulak 😎 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:29 (six years ago)

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.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Monday, 11 November 2019 17:36 (six years ago)

Not many that made it to their 40s.

― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Monday, 11 November 2019 17:45 (six years ago)

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

*sad, tedious

― Joe Kulak 😎 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 November 2019 17:45 (six years ago)

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

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 17:54 (six years ago)

shocked he's lasted 13 years since this thread started

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:40 (six years ago)

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