Libertines Reunite...
Former Libertines Pete Doherty and Carl Barat are due to start work together on a musical after being approached by a producer. Have the pair settled their differences?
Dirty Pretty Things member and former Libertine, Carl Barat has confirmed that he and troubled star Pete Doherty are to reunite in order to start writing songs for a stage musical due to appear at some point early on in 2009.
Barat revealed that he was approached by a producer who suggested their working together for the Donmar Warehouse in London.
"A producer from the theatre approached me through my record label. So I went down there to see a play and we met up for a chat,” Barat said. "He asked me if I was still in contact with Pete. I asked Pete and he loves the idea. He has invited me to Wiltshire this week to start writing it."
Pete and Carl have had a chequered history to say the least. The pair initially fell out during The Libertines' bitter break-up in 2004. Doherty left the band when his continued drug abuse got out of control and went on to form Babyshambles. Since then, he's never ceased to dominate music news headlines, a fact that was today flagged up in a UN report which suggested that celebrities are treated too leniently when it comes to sentenceing for drug use.
Nevertheless, it seems Barat and Doherty are looking forward to writing new songs together for the musical: "We'll probably have to write about 20," Barat revealed. These songs, however, will not come under The Libertines name and a reunion of the band looks unlikely at present.
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Tagged as The Libertines, Pete Doherty, Carl Barat, Collaboration, Reunion, Sideproject
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