Pete Doherty: “Peaches Geldof Made Me Rubbish At Live 8″
July 6th, 2005 at 15:00 by Stuart Heritage
Pete Doherty. In a Live 8 concert that saw Mariah Carey bark demands for water in front of a phenomenally large global audience, The Stereophonics mumble through a harrowingly anonymous set and the inclusion on the bill of UB40, Pete Doherty still managed to be widely regarded as the most rubbish act of the day.
Why was this? Drugs? Having to sing a song with a man in a funny wig? No. Pete Doherty was rubbish at Live 8 because Peaches Geldof squeezed his bum.
According to an interview with The Mirror, Doherty claimed that he was so spaced out during his toe-curling rendition of Children Of The Revolution because Bob Geldof’s 16 year-old daughter… well let’s hear it in Pete’s own words:
"I wasn’t lost for words and I wasn’t out of it on
drugs. Just before I went on stage Peaches squeezed my bum hard and
whispered something rather suggestive to me. It left me in such shock I
didn’t know where I was.
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"Bob Geldof has organised this amazing
global event, I was facing 210,000 people, the cameras are rolling, and
fucking Elton John is dueting with me. And Bob’s daughter has secretly
made a pass at me. It’s all I can think about. It did my head in. I
didn’t think Bob would be very happy."
Now if he’d just find a handy excuse for all his rubbish songs, we’ll all be happy.
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July 6th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
Pete Doherty? Wow, along with Johnny Borrell, here’s another NME poster boy idiot who needs to die in a fire. Since when were worthless crackhead shitstains respected enough to play at such a huge event, for such a good cause?
July 7th, 2005 at 11:38 am
Every1 has their bad gigs man, it just so happens his worst was the biggest 1 he’z every played! Lay off, its his life not ur’s so if he wants 2 be a crackhead then fair enough, he’z still talented and a great musician.
December 6th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
leave doherty alone, people just go by what the red top papers have to say about him. try listening to his music, after all thats what he is in this industry for! he’s a poet!
December 23rd, 2005 at 7:07 pm
Pete Doherty’s not a poet. Keats is a poet, Edgar Allen poe is a poet, Goethe was a fucking poet. Pete Doherty’s a song writer. And not a very good one at that. Why not try listening, and i mean really listening, to some geniunely brutal and achingly sore songwriting. In fact why not try listening to something that actually sounds fresh and contemporary. Have you any idea what goes on outide of the pages of NME. I mean honestly it’s just bad jounalism. The writing is awfull: the reviews are whimsical and the music itself is described in poorly realised metaphor. There isnt really anything about music in the magazine. The Wire is one of those that has it at least half right. It offers subjective views on genuinely interesting music. The magazine’s tagline reads “adventures in modern music”. Thats what music should be. An adventure. Something you discover by accident, something visceral and peculiar. Thats where the beauty lies surely.
April 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Pete doherty, doesn’t write terrible songs, in fact the babyshambles album got better and better every listen in my opinion. I think he is great, i would love to have a half hour chat to him and see how his mind works. It is a shame that he takes these drugs because, that is all alot of the press and the other hounds of people out there want to see. They are waiting for some sort of car crash to happen, then they will have their headline. I don’t think Pete Doherty will be forgotten in a hurry and I’m sure people will talk about him in years to come, whether you like it or not Pete Doherty is here to stay.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Ok…first of all their is nothing in those quotes that suggests Pete is making excuses for his poor vocal performance.
Secondly why did Pete do a duet with f**king Elton John of all people. It’s common knowledge that Pete isn’t the best singer at the best of times he hardly complements Elton Johns style. Someone made a booboo in the ‘duet choosing department’ me thinks!
P.S. How dare you compare Johnny Borrell to Pete Doherty! Granted that Johnny is a shitstain. Everything else you excreted is just bollox!
March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
slow typist?
March 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Thanks for reading…