The Libertines
‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion
As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder
Daniel Dylan Wray
03, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
Paul Dufour obituary
Other lives: Drummer who played with the rock band the Libertines in the 1990s
Barry Dufour
16, Oct, 2022 @5:05 PM
The Libertines review – ageing backstreet squalor and sporting arenas shouldn’t mix
Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produce some strong moments but without their youthful excitement it’s a rickety affair that wasn’t built for a huge venue
Dorian Lynskey
24, Jul, 2022 @11:13 AM
Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’
Twenty years after the Libertines’ narcotics-fuelled heyday, has the singer really put the chaos behind him?
Hadley Freeman
11, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM
Less hotel, more gentrified flophouse: The Albion Rooms, Margate – review
A strange venture for the Libertines, a band that crashed around Camden in the 00s
Joel Golby
04, Oct, 2020 @12:42 PM
'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us
As Pete Paphides publishes a memoir of his life in pop, our writers reflect on the childhood musical loves that made them
Pete Paphides, Alexis Petridis, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, Hannah J Davies and Michael Hann
05, Mar, 2020 @8:54 AM
The Libertines review – still creating their own mythic England
Carl Barât and Pete Doherty’s punk-rock singsongs may be out of step with today’s reality, but they still have their old vigour
Dave Simpson
11, Dec, 2019 @1:18 PM
Pete Doherty handed fine and suspended sentence after Paris arrests
The Libertines frontman was arrested twice over the weekend for attempting to buy drugs and for his involvement in a drunken brawl
Laura Snapes
13, Nov, 2019 @11:49 AM
Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for second time while celebrating release from custody
The Libertines singer was initially arrested for allegedly attempting to buy cocaine
Laura Snapes
11, Nov, 2019 @2:17 PM
Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for allegedly buying cocaine
Libertines frontman was detained on Thursday night after police stopped a drugs transaction in Pigalle district
Laura Snapes and agencies
08, Nov, 2019 @11:33 AM
'It's one big earworm': readers' picks of the best albums this century
After we published our list of the greatest albums this century, we asked for your own suggestions – from dark R&B to revolutionary drum’n’bass
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
19, Sep, 2019 @7:00 AM
Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury
Songwriter praises NHS after being wounded while walking dogs
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
01, May, 2019 @8:39 AM
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