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Post Titled: The Libertines
Nadine and I were musing (once again the other day) WHY Kate Moss might want to marry an icky guy Pete Doherty... I have never listened to his band the Libertines, although she seems to like them a lot, but I did hear a tragic recount of their demise on NPR several years ago- maybe told by Sarah Vowell?
anyhow, I was re-shocked to read it again on the Guardian. and the description of that Thai rehab clinc- jeez.
"The band won countless awards and were lauded by critics. But all the time their presiding genius, Pete Doherty, was hurtling headlong toward self-annihilation...
The guitarist, singer and songwriter is in the grip of a £250-a-day addiction to heroin and crack. Three times in the last month he has tried rehab clinics, including the world's harshest situated in Thailand, only to drop out each time. Last year he spent time in jail for burgling his own bandmate's house. In a music business now sanitised by boy bands and Pop Idol , Doherty, 25, has proved that there is still a niche for the savage hedonism of the old-style rock'n'roller, a star that burns twice as bright and half as long.
'I think Pete's main problem is that he is fascinated by the dark side,' ...
Things fell apart in May last year when Doherty was kicked out of the band for failing to turn up for a European tour. Two months later, while the rest of the group were in Japan, he burgled Barat's flat in Mayfair and stole a guitar, video recorder, laptop, mouth organ and CD player to fund his drug habit. He admitted: 'Yes, I'm a heroin addict, yes, I'm addicted to crack cocaine, and I don't know what to do.'...
He then got a place at the world's toughest clinic, the Thamkrabok monastery in Thailand, with the help of the actress June Brown, alias Dot Cotton in EastEnders, whose godson, Tim, has been hooked on crack. There he faced a pitiless regime, including beatings with a bamboo cane and being forced to drink a black concoction of vile herbs that made him vomit throughout the day to rid his body of impurities.
Gordon Baltimore, a former US Marine who runs the remote 784-acre centre, told one newspaper: 'For 30 days the patient is nothing but a robot. We push the button to decide when he eats and when he sleeps. Once someone starts his programme, the only way he can quit is when he's dead. The method of punishment is the bamboo stick.'
Hardened heroin, opium and crack addicts can be heard wailing in pain at the clinic. They are made to sing the Thai national anthem every day, and tapes of chanting by Buddhist monks are piped through to their cells every night. They endure a diet of rice and water. Once a patient has overcome his addiction, he must sign a vow never to take drugs again.
Doherty bolted before dawn on Day Three of his 10-day detox treatment and returned home, only to be arrested for reckless driving and possessing a flick knife. The Libertines were forced to cancel performances at the Glastonbury Festival..."
Nadine and I were musing (once again the other day) WHY Kate Moss might want to marry an icky guy Pete Doherty... I have never listened to his band the Libertines, although she seems to like them a lot, but I did hear a tragic recount of their demise on NPR several years ago- maybe told by Sarah Vowell?
anyhow, I was re-shocked to read it again on the Guardian. and the description of that Thai rehab clinc- jeez.
"The band won countless awards and were lauded by critics. But all the time their presiding genius, Pete Doherty, was hurtling headlong toward self-annihilation...
The guitarist, singer and songwriter is in the grip of a £250-a-day addiction to heroin and crack. Three times in the last month he has tried rehab clinics, including the world's harshest situated in Thailand, only to drop out each time. Last year he spent time in jail for burgling his own bandmate's house. In a music business now sanitised by boy bands and Pop Idol , Doherty, 25, has proved that there is still a niche for the savage hedonism of the old-style rock'n'roller, a star that burns twice as bright and half as long.
'I think Pete's main problem is that he is fascinated by the dark side,' ...
Things fell apart in May last year when Doherty was kicked out of the band for failing to turn up for a European tour. Two months later, while the rest of the group were in Japan, he burgled Barat's flat in Mayfair and stole a guitar, video recorder, laptop, mouth organ and CD player to fund his drug habit. He admitted: 'Yes, I'm a heroin addict, yes, I'm addicted to crack cocaine, and I don't know what to do.'...
He then got a place at the world's toughest clinic, the Thamkrabok monastery in Thailand, with the help of the actress June Brown, alias Dot Cotton in EastEnders, whose godson, Tim, has been hooked on crack. There he faced a pitiless regime, including beatings with a bamboo cane and being forced to drink a black concoction of vile herbs that made him vomit throughout the day to rid his body of impurities.
Gordon Baltimore, a former US Marine who runs the remote 784-acre centre, told one newspaper: 'For 30 days the patient is nothing but a robot. We push the button to decide when he eats and when he sleeps. Once someone starts his programme, the only way he can quit is when he's dead. The method of punishment is the bamboo stick.'
Hardened heroin, opium and crack addicts can be heard wailing in pain at the clinic. They are made to sing the Thai national anthem every day, and tapes of chanting by Buddhist monks are piped through to their cells every night. They endure a diet of rice and water. Once a patient has overcome his addiction, he must sign a vow never to take drugs again.
Doherty bolted before dawn on Day Three of his 10-day detox treatment and returned home, only to be arrested for reckless driving and possessing a flick knife. The Libertines were forced to cancel performances at the Glastonbury Festival..."
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