Pete Doherty: Last News

Pete Doherty performed a section of The Pogues‘ ‘Dirty Old Town’ in Ukrainian on The Last Leg last night (February 24) – see a snippet below.The singer was appearing on the show, hosted by Adam Hills, on the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.To close the show, he performed ‘Dirty Old Town’ solo, incorporating the Ukrainian language into its final chorus.He ended the performance by exclaiming “Slava Ukraini!” which translates as “Glory to Ukraine!”Watch the performance below.A really lovely touch by @petedoherty performing Dirty Old Town in Ukranian. Also lovely to see he seems to have fought the demons that have haunted him for past 2 decades.

APPOINTMENTSWarner Music’s Parlophone has announced a load of promotions and new hires. Jack Melhuish is now General Manager, Grace O’Neill has moved up to Head Of Radio, and Sam Palm is now Head Of Insight. Meanwhile, there are four new members of the A&R team: Arina Logacheva, Molly McNulty, Seb Smith and Jason Ngimbi.The Roundhouse in London has announced five new members of its board of trustees: Sherry Dzinoreva, Rosie Luff, Kojo Marfo, Rajay Naik and Leo Wyndham.

Pete Doherty has announced his first solo acoustic tour of the UK and Ireland in a decade – see ticket details and dates for ‘The Battered Songbook Tour’ below.The tour is set to begin in April and will feature career-spanning setlists incorporating songs from The Libertines, Babyshambles and Doherty’s solo projects.Of what to expect from the shows, a statement read: “Peter promises to take audiences on an unforgettable ride into his strange and fascinating world where nothing is as it seems and life itself is an intense euphoric dream. Friends and special guests are expected to join him on occasion across these seventeen dates.”‘The Battered Songbook Tour’ begins in Belfast on April 13, ending on May 5 with a huge London gig at the Royal Albert Hall.See the full list of dates below.

PETE Doherty joined his wife Katia de Vidas at a fashion show in Paris today. The indie hero, famous for fronting The Libertines and Babyshambles, had a prize place on the front row. Pete - who has abandoned his hard-living days in London for the good life in the French countryside - looked a little different to his Noughties heyday.

Former enfant terrible of British rock Peter Doherty and keyboard playing producer-filmmaker wife Katia de Vidas gave a surprise private concert at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps on Monday evening.

ROD Stewart has revealed his son Aiden, 11, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance after collapsing at a football match. The legendary crooner, 77, feared his son had suffered a heart attack after he went "blue and unconscious" while playing for his Young Hoops Under-12s team. Speaking to FourFourTwo magazine, he said: "We thought my boy had a heart attack.

PETE Doherty is set to become a dad again. The Babyshambles singer, 43, announced the news that wife Katia de Vidas is expecting on stage in Strasburg on Monday night. He is already dad to son Astile, 19, from his romance with Lisa Moorish and daughter Aisling, 11, with model Lindi Hingston.

that's currently trending again. She’s been there, done that, got the ripped T-shirt. Sure, she never reached Pete Doherty levels of undone, but the star was not opposed to band tees or teaming shorts and tights with smudgy eyeliner on occasion.Nowadays, is central to her red-carpet wardrobe—like the black satin dress and ornate bouclé tweed coat that she wore this week to a screening of her new film, Charlotte, in London.

During one interview with the New York Times, she greeted reporter Eric Wilson while completely naked, and then walked through the Mercer's hotel lobby in pink knickers with her breasts fully exposed.Looking back on the incident afterwards, she suggested she'd lived up to her "worst reputation" and texted the journalist to apologise.Meanwhile, Salvatore Calabrese later told the Guardian that she had been topless when he had delivered martinis to her at her hotel suite in the Lanesborough in London, too.Though Courtney might have been nonplussed about nudity, Jools has had so many memorable guests on his show that she's not the only one who stood out as he reviewed the past three decades on air.On one occasion, he was invited to sing with a then 12-year-old Adele before she'd even entered stage school via a note delivered backstage by her mum - but ultimately "never heard anything back"."I missed out there, rather, didn’t I?" he joked, highlighting the night she'd gone to see one of his musical performances at Croydon Fairfield Halls.Another missed opportunity was grilling the Gallagher brothers, as Paula Yates - his colleague from The Tube - ended up "collaring" them instead."There was a bit of Gallagher brother arguing when Oasis came on," the starstruck presenter reminisced, claiming it was "great" to have witnessed it.He then had a chat with Noel about cathedral architecture - a topic that seemingly ran in stark contrast to the star's rock 'n' roll roots - before Paula put a stop to their conversation."They were more interested in her than me.She stole them from me!" Jools exclaimed jokingly during his interview with the Radio Times.There was a slightly embarrassing moment onscreen after Pete Doherty of the Libertines

The Libertines have announced the launch of a special podcast to celebrate 20 years of their debut album ‘Up The Bracket’.Titled ‘Up The Bracket: 20 Years of The Libertines’, the podcast will be made up of seven episodes featuring exclusive interviews with band members Carl Barât, Pete Doherty, John Hassall and Gary Powell, as well as the A&R who discovered them, James Endeacott, and their biographer, Anthony Thornton.The series will be hosted by Radio X’s Sunta Templeton and will provide listeners with insight into The Libertines’ journey, exploring the highs and lows and the moment they felt like they ‘made it’ told by the band themselves.Our podcast with @thelibertines, 20 Years Of Up The Bracket is out on Friday, and we want to know what your favourite Up The Bracket track is? Reply or quote tweet with your answer

Federation Studios is producing and distributing a documentary about British rockstar Pete Doherty’s addiction problems.

The Libertines have confirmed they have been working on new music. The band shared that they have been setting down tracks in the Caribbean over the summer for their upcoming album.Pete Doherty told media (per Music-News) at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2022 yesterday (Wednesday, September 28), that he and co-frontman Carl Barât had been in Jamaica and having a “productive” summer working on new material for the band’s fourth studio album.

Kate Moss has been spotted at New York Fashion Week, sitting in front row seats next to Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian. The model, who recently shared the bizarre moment her ex Johnny Depp pulled diamonds "out of his bum" for her, was definitely turning heads at the event as she looked sophisticated in a denim shirt dress and knee high boots while holding onto a clutch bag.

The Libertines have paid tribute to their “much loved” former drummer, Paul Dufour, who has died.Dufour played in the early days of the band before Gary Powell replaced him.“Paul Dufour, our much loved drummer from the early days, passed away last night. We are all in great shock and sadness. Sending love and thoughts to Paul’s friends and family.

Jamie T joined The Libertines on stage at London’s Wembley Arena last night – check out the moment below.Jamie came on for the last song of the set, The Libertines’ ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’ after the band had delivered a career-spanning set earlier in the evening.

Kate Moss appeared to reference her wild party years as she joked she’s always ‘loved coke. ’The model has a sleek new job as Diet Coke’s creative director, and this week spoke an event celebrating the brand’s 40th anniversary. At the event, during a speech Kate joked that she’s ‘always loved coke,’ followed by a knowing pause.

Kate Moss appeared to reference her wild party years as she joked she’s always ‘loved coke. ’The model has a sleek new job as Diet Coke’s creative director, and this week spoke an event celebrating the brand’s 40th anniversary. At the event, during a speech Kate joked that she’s ‘always loved coke,’ followed by a knowing pause.

Kate Moss appeared to reference her wild party years as she joked she’s always ‘loved coke.’The model has a sleek new job as Diet Coke’s creative director, and this week spoke an event celebrating the brand’s 40th anniversary.At the event, during a speech Kate joked that she’s ‘always loved coke,’ followed by a knowing pause.Guests burst into laughter at Kate’s comments, with many fans taking it as a tongue-in-cheek nod to her party days.In 2005 the star had been dropped from multiple modelling gigs after she was snapped allegedly doing cocaine on a night out with then-boyfriend Pete Doherty.Since then mum-of-one Kate has moved on from her wild youth: she is now sober and maintains a healthy lifestyle which involves lots of yoga.A video of Kate’s apparent sly reference was posted to Instagram by user Meemeewhite, and fans flocked to the comments section to comment on the quip.‘Icon behaviour,’ one person said, while another described it as ‘so good.’In another comment Kate was branded a ‘legend’ while multiple others agreed the model was a ‘true icon.’While the star can laugh about the ordeal today, at the time Kate was in hot water when photos of her allegedly doing cocaine in a recording studio were posted o the front page of the Daily Mail.However Kate was never charged, with the Crown Prosecution Service saying in 2006 that the footage could not prove whether the pictured substance was cocaine, ecstasy or amphetamine and therefore whether it was Class A or B.Earlier this year, Kate’s younger sister Lottie Moss revealed she had checked into rehab over a ‘really bad’ cocaine addiction.She shared multiple short videos on TikTok at the time sharing her experience of addiction.One clip bore the caption: ‘I think I took

Libertines frontman Pete Doherty has claimed that he was once offered a role in Eastenders.As reported in The Mirror, Doherty said he was offered a part in the long-running show, but turned it down – something he says he was later “disappointed” about.He said: “There are a few things that have fallen through over the years that I was a bit disappointed about – opportunities that came up that I didn’t take.“I was going to get a part in EastEnders at one point. It was around this time that the Libertines re-formed too.”He also claimed that he turned down an offer of £100,000 to go on Celebrity Big Brother.Last month, Doherty revealed that he hopes The Libertines‘ long-awaited fourth album should be completed by the end of 2022.Doherty was speaking to NME just after they stepped off stage from their opening performance on The Other Stage at Glastonbury 2022 last weekend, where the singer and guitarist spoke highly of the current mood in the camp – which was reflected in the joyous and buoyant nature of their set.“The chemistry is working to the original chemical formula, with the prosperity, harmony and advancement of the Albion’s dream and promise,” Doherty told NME.Looking to the future, Doherty confirmed that writing sessions in Jamaica were pencilled in for work on the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth‘.Having previously told NME that the record looked set to have an eclectic mix of styles in the same vein as The Clash’s ‘Sandinista’, Doherty explained: “There are lots of things on the table – some really good, strong and melodic rock’n’roll songs.

HAIM have spoken to NME about their chance meeting with Drake, saying that the encounter was “like something out of a movie”.We caught up with the trio at Glastonbury 2022, just after their celebrated return to the Pyramid Stage, when the sisters told us about recently having their photo taken with Drake – who also hailed them as “The Beatles“.Asked which of the Fab Four each of them might be, singer Alana replied: “You can’t ask us which Beatle we are. We had no idea he was going to call us The Beatles, so we’re very thankful.

Pete Doherty has shared some of his strongest Glastonbury memories – featuring Kate Moss, an “undercover agent” sent by Vivienne Westwood and a £16,000 cardigan once owned by T Rex legend Marc Bolan. Watch part two of our interview with Doherty above.This week’s Big Read cover story sees the likes of HAIM, Sigrid, Yungblud, Baebadoobee, Fontaines DC and more tell us about Glastonbury and what it means to them. Speaking to NME just after The Libertines stepped off stage from their opening performance on The Other Stage at Glastonbury 2022 last weekend, Doherty told us how Glasto had always had a special place in the band’s hearts.“Carl [Barat] was brought up like a babe in arms at Greenham Common with a real hippie background,” he said.