Pete Doherty on once lying about supporting Supergrass – and Carl Barat pretending to be in Radiohead

nme.com:

Pete Doherty has opened up about the time he lied about supporting Supergrass on tour and his bandmate pretending to be in Radiohead.The Libertines frontman recently sat down with NME as the most recent guest of our In Conversation series and took a moment to discuss the band’s massive Gunnersbury Park show that is happening on Saturday August 9 (visit here for tickets and more information).The likes of Lambrini Girls, Hak Baker and Supergrass will be joining the ‘Time For Heroes’ group as special guests.

After being asked if having Gaz Coombes and co as an opening act feels surreal and heavy, Doherty said: “Yes. There was a time years ago, back when we were young whippersnappers, where we’d be down Dublin Castle lying to try and impress girls, telling them that we were going on tour with Supergrass, then trying to get them back to our basement.”He continued: “I’d go out to the phone box and call the landline, pretending to be Supergrass’ manager!

This is before we were even signed or had a bass player or a drummer. Then we ended up supporting them, and now they’re supporting us.”Doherty also opened up about the time that his Libertine bandmate Carl Barât pretended to be part of Radiohead in order to impress a group of girls.“I remember one time, Carl was going around pretending to be the guitarist of Radiohead at the Wag Club in Soho.

I think one of them was there as well. He was chatting to these Scandinavian girls with his hair all over his face, saying, ‘I’m the guitarist in Radiohead’, and they were like, ‘Ah, I just met your bass player!