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Tuesday 11 May 2010

PETE DOHERTY: Music When The Lights Go Out

Pete Doherty performing during an interview for BBC4, in 2004. The whole interview (which is on YouTube) is well worth watching, showing that Doherty is a long way from the drunken drug-crazed monster that is presented to us in the tabloids. In fact we see a sensitive and vulnerable individual, a talented performer, and a writer of poignant and personal songs. Unfortunatey the interviewer (Kirsty Wark) once again dwells on the issues of drugs and relationships, and seems to have little appreciation of the music. My reaction was similar to that of bevyk777, who commented:

"I'm trying to figure out how she sat there and didn't acknowledge how lucky she was to have that song played so beautifully 2 feet away from her...and not even so much as a word or a toe tap...or a head sway. Maybe concentrating on her next question. I wonder if she rethought it after seeing it? How can you ignore that performance w/out a compliment of some sort???".

She is quite sensitive, however. It's touching at the end when she reads a letter frome Pete Doherty's mum.

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