every time i’ve seen the libs live, the amount of phones that preemptively go up in the air when they start playing katie is so endearing and silly to me like i know what u are. ur a shipper.
“New Love Grows on Trees” (Peter Doherty, circa. 1999, released March 2009)
"Shiver" (The Libertines, released January 2024)
Peter Doherty & Carl Barat to The Guardian (February 2024)
Simon Pegg & Nick Frost (the stars of Spaced and The Cornetto Trilogy) doing their own version of the 2004 album of the rock band The Libertines (with Hot Fuzz tattoos on their arms so probably around 2007).
Barât once said he’d never find another songwriting partner like Doherty. Was he right? “I think it’d still be true now,” he says.
“Ermmm,” Doherty says. Another loud exhalation. “You want the honest answer?” Yes, please. “Maybe I’m not thinking it when I write the song, but the first thing I think afterwards is, ‘I wonder what Carl will think of that?’, whoever I’m writing the song with. The honest answer is, everything I write is for Carl.”