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‘Glastonbury’s definitely still medieval!’: The Libertines’ Pete Doherty and Carl Barât interviewed at the festival
The wild men of noughties indie on their return to the site to play the Pyramid stage, Pete Doherty’s opinions on Oasis – and their regrets
Another reader wanted to know if Doherty’s opinion on Oasis had changed since he notoriously appeared on MTV in 1997, saying: “I subscribe to the Umberto Eco view that Noel Gallagaher’s a poet and Liam’s a town crier.” “Yeah, I think that still works in a way,” he replies. In response to a reader question about new books, he says: “There’s a novel calledEngland Is Mine about a kid who gets turned to online extremism by a young English writer called Nicolas Padamsee. Talk turns to nostalgia for the mid-2000s, when the Libertines swaggered on to the London scene with 2002 album Up the Bracket, produced by Mick Jones of the Clash, and combusted in a blaze of scandal and infamy.
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