Better than a toxic phenomenon feeding the tabloids and blogs celebrities, pop Admiral Peter Doherty is the only master on board the Albion, old ghost ship Arcadia pouncing on an idealized England of which only the former Libertines seems to have found key. Parachuted from a beautiful Victorian mid-Zero, Peter works his guts, as shown in his published books of Albion. Just when he toured with Charlotte Gainsbourg in an adaptation of the Confession of a Child of the Century Musset novel founder of dandyism absolute.
We have just the phone to confirm: that the tabloids have dubbed the world Junkie Pete agrees to take photos for Blast. He even offers to improvise a mini-concert at Ly Adams, in Rue Vieille-du-Temple. If it does not bother ...! Incredulous, we wait and wonder about an air of distant Bacharach what raindrop has yet been able to fall on his head. It must be said that we would be disappointed that it arrives on time. But even more sorry that it does not come at all!
"I am many things: a singer, playboy, simulator, but I am not a taxi driver and I do not mind a point turner."
We'll see. Our photographer is ready, while a flood of images in our heads scrolls from the Can not Stand Me Now The Libertines in 2002 produced by the Radio Clash Mick Jones chief until the counting of Grace / Wasteland, solo album Peter Pan also much less ambitious than Carl Barat - exercise rather successful way of Weimar cabaret-pop - but also more honest, more naked, as if the debauchery did at the first living person.
"I want my chance before being too old to feel this desire to be adored child, this need to move one step evolutionary curve of British pop."
When Peter starts in adolescence, he wanted to go to the show Top of the Pops as all other musicians and closely follows the stars of the Brit pop scene, almost like a journalist, noting in his diary and facts Oasis phenomenon gestures, mocking the glories or ephemeral as Mansun Menswear ... Marking a grim look on his time as Musset - he soon embodied in the cinema, watching his own: "Everything that was no more. All that is not yet ".
"Misery misery misery poured me another glass."
And then it was the success of boys in the band, based on a very friendly lad with Carl Barat, wiser, more thoughtful - like Jagger, Richards face except that the star has always been Libertines Doherty. Sacrificial figure par excellence, it is a kind of Kurt Cobain and more literary, or Ian Curtis and less forlorn, although so far his company self-destructive is still not achieved its aims. It must be said that Peter's concern is not Christlike. His only issue is England.
"Race is not the theme of my work, love it, Britain and the quest for depth, grace and charm."
At the heart of its mythologies intimate ago Albion (the apartment he shared with Carl Barat their debut was called Albion Rooms, also the name of his website today) and the Arcadia, a kind of idealized England that he discovered under the covers of Kate Moss. There is not enough that their crazy love story revealed to the world the triumph of romanticism in the English-pearien almost shakes when we must content ourselves here couple Yvan Attal / Charlotte Gainsbourg radius post-adolescence. "Kate: I Do," before she left with the false killer Jamie Hince, everybody has in mind the pictures of Kate in boots at the Glastonbury Festival.
The full story read in Blast Magazine 36, on newsstands!
Source: Pete Doherty: Le Journel De Peter BLAST
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