Pete Doherty on Babyshambles and getting the band back together 

You've been waiting all these years for Pete Doherty to get back with a former band, and then two come along at once. He tells Casey Cooper-Fiske all about it 

Pete Doherty and Babyshambles. Picture: Barnaby Fairley

In 2004, The Libertines were coming to an end, having led the garage rock revival in the UK alongside The Strokes in the US at the turn of the millennium, squabbles over drug use between the band’s two frontmen Carl Barat and Pete Doherty were now tearing the band apart.

After Doherty had left the band they released one of their best known singles, Can’t Stand Me Now, which detailed the pair’s fall out, with Doherty asking on the record “have we enough to keep it together?”.