Over the weekend, Pete Doherty and his latest supermodel girlfriend, Irina Lazareanu, found a legal way to get high on the octopus ride at the Marlborough, Wiltshire fairground, which located near his current country retreat. Later that day, however, all was not so jovial with Doherty when he gave a lackluster performance during one of his famed secret gigs:

Fans were left disappointed by the ‘tame’ 1am show at the Thekla nightclub aboard a converted cargo boat in Bristol.

Doherty mumbled through the 40-minute set before he threw his mic stand into the crowd and stormed off stage.

Onlookers say that Pete basically shuffled around and stared at the floor through most of his set, which doesn’t sound promising for his hard-earned sobriety. Pete is still banned from London proper until his next court date, but he has given a radio interview on his status:

“I’m healthy, physically, a bit wobbly. I’m not sure about complete abstinence [from drugs]. But it’s a 12 step philosophy. It’s one day at a time I suppose. Apparently [sic] I’ve got loads of self-esteem issues,” he said, before joking: “I thought I was alright!”

In more positive news, Pete was recently allowed a day pass (while in rehab) to interview Sir Paul McCartney for Observer Music Monthly, and Sir Paul revealed that he had handpicked Pete to do the deed:

So someone said: ‘Would you like to do an interview? And who would you like to do, and I said: ‘Pete’. ‘Cause otherwise it’s just some real boring person who you’re not interested in. We’ve met briefly once before, backstage at a Little Britain show, and I’d seen you on the Jonathan Ross Show, which I thought was very cool. To me, there was all the newspaper stuff saying, ‘He’s out, he’s out of it,’ so I was like, ‘He’s going to miss a few notes here,’ but you were spot-on; really nailed the piece you were playing.

In addition, Pete inquired whether The Beatles’ tours were really like Fellini’s [1969 film] Satyricon:

Not really. I mean, it’s a bit of an exaggeration. It was definitely quite decadent. The whole thing about getting into a band was to get girls, basically. Money and girls. Probably girls first. So when you are on the road, and there was time for a party, we had a bunch of those . . . The funny thing is when later the rumour came out that John was gay, I said: ‘I don’t think so.’ We used to sleep together, top and tail it, you know. I always used to say: ‘Come on, I would have spotted something here.’ But what I spotted was completely the opposite. It was just chicks, chicks, chicks.

Several other interesting tidbits appear in the full interview, not the least of which is that McCartney has never been able to read music but instead composes his songs by ear.

Images from the Daily Mail.