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The Libertines

July 2024

  • ‘A beautiful, bold and totally involving album’ … English Teacher.

    ‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far

    Following our rundown of the best albums in the first half of the year, you responded with your own suggestions, from Kali Malone to Kim Gordon

February 2024

  • The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, sitting on the floor, the former with his arms around the latter, against a turquoise background

    ‘Am I surprised Pete Doherty is still alive? No, he’s too smart to die’: the Libertines on feuds, friendship – and their unlikely sober reunion

  • The Libertines: Pete Doherty and Carl Bârat.

    Weekend
    The Libertines’ tortured reunion, Marina Hyde on celebrity-dictator bromances, and the simple trick to enjoying life more – podcast

January 2024

  • The Libertines perform at Arc, Stockton-on-Tees.

    The Libertines review – raucous return for chaotic indie heroes

    Previewing their first new album for nine years to a tiny but thrilled audience, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s band continue to stumble around greatness

November 2023

  • Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin.

    Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin review – portrait of the artist keeps its distance

    Doc following the Libertines star, made by his wife, is unsparing in showing his struggles with drug addiction but shies away from other personal stories

March 2023

  • The Libertines at Barfly in Camden, north London, 2003

    ‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion

    As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder

October 2022

  • Paul Dufour

    Other lives
    Paul Dufour obituary

    Other lives: Drummer who played with the rock band the Libertines in the 1990s

July 2022

  • Like a kiss …  Doherty and Barât lean into the same microphone.

    The Libertines review – ageing backstreet squalor and sporting arenas shouldn’t mix

    Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produce some strong moments but without their youthful excitement it’s a rickety affair that wasn’t built for a huge venue

June 2022

  • Doherty and Kate Moss in 2007.

    Pete Doherty on Kate Moss: ‘Our relationship became a running battle: highs and then crushing, violent lows’

  • Peter Doherty, photographed in France last month.

    Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’

March 2022

  • Carl Barât

    The Q&A
    The Libertines’ Carl Barât: ‘My guiltiest pleasure? Love Island’

    The musician on marathon meth sessions, moving to Margate and the Marvel superhero he secretly fancies

October 2020

  • The Libertines at The Albion Rooms in Margate

    Less hotel, more gentrified flophouse: The Albion Rooms, Margate – review

    A strange venture for the Libertines, a band that crashed around Camden in the 00s

March 2020

  • (L-R) Mr Blobby, Avril Lavigne and Paul McCartney.

    'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us

    As Pete Paphides publishes a memoir of his life in pop, our writers reflect on the childhood musical loves that made them

December 2019

  • Pete Doherty and Carl Barât of the Libertines at Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse.

    The Libertines review – still creating their own mythic England

    Carl Barât and Pete Doherty’s punk-rock singsongs may be out of step with today’s reality, but they still have their old vigour

November 2019

  • Pete Doherty leaves the Paris court, accompanied by Katia De Vidas, 12 November 2019.

    Pete Doherty handed fine and suspended sentence after Paris arrests

    The Libertines frontman was arrested twice over the weekend for attempting to buy drugs and for his involvement in a drunken brawl
  • Pete Doherty performs with the Libertines at Glastonbury, 26 June 2015.

    Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for second time while celebrating release from custody

    The Libertines singer was initially arrested for allegedly attempting to buy cocaine
  • Pete Doherty performing with the Libertines at Columbiahalle, Berlin, 5 November 2019.

    Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for allegedly buying cocaine

    Libertines frontman was detained on Thursday night after police stopped a drugs transaction in Pigalle district

September 2019

  • Cate Le Bon, the Weeknd and Bruce Springsteen.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    'It's one big earworm': readers' picks of the best albums this century

    After we published our list of the greatest albums this century, we asked for your own suggestions – from dark R&B to revolutionary drum’n’bass

May 2019

  • Pete Doherty performing in 2016.

    Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury

    Songwriter praises NHS after being wounded while walking dogs

April 2019

  • Peter Doherty

    Peter Doherty: 'If I was drug free, I'd be a force to be reckoned with'

    The Libertines co-frontman is 40 – an age few expected him to reach. Yet he’s back with a new band, a seaside hotel and an unorthodox approach to dog-handling
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