No Rock And Roll Fun

SO LONG AS THERE'S A GOOD REASON, THEN: Over on one of the Libertines lists recently, there's been a massive rush to defend Pete for not playing those London gigs, based on the conviction that Pete would never let down his fans without a good reason. Oh yeah? Carl Barat has pointed out that Doherty didn't turn up to gigs last summer in a big girly huff. Barat had - not unsurprisingly - refused to cut his birthday party short to go off to some gig Doherty had arranged in "an East End crack house"; in revenge, Doherty axed a string of proper dates booked in for the following months.