Pete bars pints

We're a little confused by Pete Doherty's plans to play a tour of dry venues to "celebrate" his drug-free status, a tour idea which two Sun writers (Victoria and Gordon Smart) have just seemed to blithely accept:

The BABYSHAMBLES star is in talks for a series of solo gigs marking more than two clean months.

But Pete, 28, insists the venues he plays at the end of this month do not serve alcohol — as he will be performing sober for the first time in five years.

But Pete's kicked illegal drugs, not legal ones, so why would you play a gig in an alcohol-free venue to mark that? Isn't that slightly misleading?

Apart from anything, Newton herself was reporting this earlier in the week:

HERE’S a podgier PETE DOHERTY back on stage in his first gig since leaving rehab.

The BABYSHAMBLES singer gave an impromptu performance at the Sun Inn in the quaint Wiltshire town of Marlborough.

Pete – whose band went to No5 in the album charts yesterday with Shotter’s Nation – was only released from the nearby Clouds clinic on Thursday.

And he couldn’t resist nipping to his new local to celebrate with a few pints of Guinness.

And if Pete really wants to take a stand, rather than throw a stunt, couldn't he just insist that the bars in the arenas Babyshambles are due to play next month?