Pete Doherty To Spend 14 Weeks In The Pokey
Our favorite dirty crackhead, Babyshambles frontman, and Amy Winehouse’s male doppleganger, Pete Doherty has been arrested and jailed for failing to show up on time for hearings related to his probation on drugs charges.
Doherty had been given a suspended jail sentence for possession of drugs and driving illegally in October last year. His supervision order required him to make regular visits to court for progress reports, as well as take part in a drug rehabilitation programme. He was threatened with up to four months in jail if he broke the law during this period.
Do crackheads even own watches? And honestly, what do they expect a reprobate like Doherty to do? Not indulge in illicit drugs? Not be too cracked out to show up on time? Man, for every Lindsay Lohan we have here in the states, there’s like ten Pete Dohertys over in the UK. God Save The QUEEN!
The worse news in all this, besides Pete’s cat going into crack withdrawals while he’s is lockdown, is he may miss a show at the Royal Albert Hall on April 26. So, how many holes does it take to fill that place anyway?
Fortunately, Pete’s label has his back and issued this statement to fans who bought tickets to the April 26th show:
Parlophone, explained the solo show will be postponed but it “is due to be rescheduled and all tickets will be valid for the new date once it has been announced. Peter was very much looking forward to the show and would like to offer his sincerest apologies to all his fans and all those concerned”.
There should be disclaimers on all tickets sold to Pete and Amy shows which stipulate there’s only a 10% chance they will actually show up, and .0005% they won’t be to jacked to play.
True story, when I was in NY a couple of weeks ago interviewing Andrew Morton, there were these doormen at his hotel (The Bowery) who wore these Pete Doherty top hats. They had these Charles Dickensesque red overcoats and looked straight out of Oliver Twist. As I was waiting for a cab I said, to the really tall one, “Has anyone ever said you look like Pete Doherty, after a nap, rehab and industrial strength scrub?” And just as you’d expect, he said in an authentic British accent, “Yeah, it’s the top hat!” Well, it certainly wasn’t the nicotine stained fingers (this guy was cute!). He shared an Amy Winehouse encounter he had when he was back home in London, but since it didn’t involve crack or BLAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEE, why bother.
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For anyone, and there are too many, who has lost someone they love due to substance abuse, this sort of spectacle holds a lot less fascination, and a lot more sadness.
Comment by marcab — April 8, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
Pete Doherty’s One of the best composers of all time, the media seem to want to portrait him as just some crack head, if people just took the time to listen to the music which he creates instead of just slating the bloke. All great artistic people were on drugs anyway; we all know the beatles were and even the best composers ever such as bach were. Pete’s a legend!
Comment by Dan — April 8, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
I love Babyshambles, but I don’t love people glorifying extreme and dangerous drug use.
And while some may think ridiculing Pete is cruel, my hope is if enough people heap shame on him, he will change his ways before he ends up dead.
Only Pete can fix Pete.
Comment by D — April 8, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
Who is this guy and why should I care that he likely will OD? He will be replaced by another “loser” who can’t handle success. There I feel better.
Comment by truthseeker — April 10, 2008 @ 12:30 pm