Once upon a time, there was an English rock band, The Libertines, who were truly quite smashing. The Libertines’ two frontmen, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, were pretty tight friends for several years, but, due to Doherty’s newfound smack and crack habits, their relationship deteriorated during the recording of The Libertines’ second album. According to legend, the band actually hired security during recording sessions to make sure that Doherty’s drug-fueled rages didn’t lead to impromptu fist fights.
Things worsened with a series of missed gigs by Doherty. In July 2003, Carl understandably broke off the friendship when Doherty happened to burgle Carl’s Mayfair flat and later admitted to stealing an “antique guitar, laptop, video recorder, CD player, mouth organ and books.” After entering a guilty plea, Pete served his first stint of hard time (less than a month) at Pentonville prison. In 2007, the two friends patched things up a bit by performing an acoustic gig together but are believed to generally maintain a relatively healthy distance from one another. Gin under the bridge, mates.
It has been noted that, while Carl enjoys a bit of liquor every now and then, he’s practically a choirboy compared to Pete Doherty. However, poor Carl has been rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains and has reportedly been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis:
Pancreatitis is an extremely painful condition and can be fatal in some circumstances. It can also be brought on by heavy drinking, in which cases sufferers are never allowed to drink again, but at this stage it’s unknown how severe Carl’s case is or what’s caused it.
This condition requires that Carl be kept under supervision over the weekend and may require an operation, which means that Carl’s current band, Dirty Pretty Things, has been forced to scrap some gigs. Operation or not, it’s bloody likely that Carl can never drink alcohol again. Meanwhile, Pete Doherty has taken so many Class A drugs that his body may very well be the only organic matter, aside from cockroaches, that would be able to survive a direct nuclear attack.
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Everybody always knows someone who knew someone who lived in a small town who was a distant relative of an old drunk man who did so many drugs and drank so much alcohol than when he stopped, he could no longer function and almost die, so now he has to do drugs and drink alcohol every single day or he’ll die, and he’s like 102 years old. Petey could eventually become that drunk old man.
Anyway, hope Carl’s pancreatitis is not alcohol related, DPT sounds so much better, and he sounds so much more alive and less apathetic and arrogant when he’s slightly drunk.
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