Pete Doherty recalls sitting outside gig while fans ‘tore the place apart’
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‘I won’t even tell you where my head was at, it was so weird, people wouldn’t believe me,’ musician told Kirsty Young. Pete Doherty recalled how he once sat in a taxi outside a London music venue suffering from hallucinations, while fans “tore the place apart” because he’d failed to show up for the gig.
The Libertines frontman, who recently announced a new solo album, appeared on Kirsty Young’s Young Again podcast on BBC Radio 4 where he reflected on his past antics and the messages he would send to his younger self. Doherty, 45, explained how he “had a slight problem of hallucinations” when he was a child from a head injury. The hallucinations would resurface when he wasn’t getting enough sleep, he said, and “stupid” and “criminal” things would happen.
As Young questioned whether he would tell himself to stay away from certain people and scenes where he might land in trouble, he responded that he was “as bad as everyone else”. “It’s just, ‘be kind to yourself every now and again, get some sleep for god’s sake’, because all the serious things that went wrong, like, we’ll end up in jail or end up missing concerts (when that happened),” he said.
“I missed the concert at the Astoria because I was so freaked out, I won’t even tell you where my head was at, it was so weird, people wouldn’t believe me. “I ended up sitting in a taxi outside the venue, not going in, while people who paid to see the concert, who are now being told to go home, they tore the place apart, and there was loads of people battered because they attacked security.
