Pete Doherty åkte på stryk av Swervedriver

Knockades av Adam Franklin.

Det är inte alltid lätt att vara Pete Doherty. Frontmannen i återförenade The Libertines åkte på stryk – eller rättare sagt fick en knock av ett annat återförenat band. Sångaren Adam Franklin i Swervedriver slog till Pete Doherty på en hotellfest i Hongkong avslöjar han för NME. Efter att Pete försökt slå till Franklin men inte lyckats gav Franklin igen med samma mynt – och enligt alla utsagor tycks fått till en redig träff – ”he ”decked” Doherty” har brittiska medier rapporterat.

Franklins egna ord:

[Doherty] can’t have been in the room for more than a minute or two before some kerfuffle broke out across the room — you’d have to ask him what that was about, although good luck getting anything out of him as he surely won’t fucking remember — and he fell across to the side of the room where I was sat having a chat with Gary [Powell, Libertines drummer] and a couple of friends…

[Doherty] then suddenly took a swing at me and missed. I stood up and decked him, and that was it. Gary, who I have to say is a lovely bloke, helped get him out of the room and [Doherty] was screaming, “He hit me! He hit me!” while people were pointing out to him that he had in fact tried to hit me first…

Apparently I had said, “So you’re the famous Pete Doherty?” as I stood over him before they dragged him out, which entertained everybody else in the room and probably annoyed him. But what was I supposed to say? He hadn’t even introduced himself!

Och representanter från The Libertines meddelar följande: “With adrenaline running high after the show in Hong Kong, there was an unfortunate short altercation/misunderstanding of which no one was injured and apologies were made soon after”.