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Hellraiser Pete Doherty returns! Singer launches first solo project since getting clean in 2019 - after weight battle and admitting he was at risk of having toe amputation
When he was revitalising British indie-rock in the 2000s as frontman of The Libertines, the band he started with his friend Carl Barât, Pete Doherty cut a dishevelled figure.
But these tuneful, sometimes melancholy songs are also the work of an old-fashioned English romantic: Pot Of Gold is a harassed dad’s lullaby for his daughter; Ed Belly is the tale of ‘a 20-something kid in Coventry’ who dreams of a road-trip across America. His on-stage appearance was the first time he has been seen wearing normal shoes after months of stepping out in slippers and medical boots after he revealed he was at risk of having his toes amputated after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes last year. It came after he revealed that baby Billy May, his wife Katie and the family dog all join him out on tour while speaking to Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett on the Parenting Hell podcast earlier this month.
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