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Doherty diaries to be published in March

Pete Doherty's diaries are to be published, Kurt-style (well, ish: it's not like Pete's dead yet), in March next year.

The Orion Publishing Group are no doubt salivating at the potential sales figures; despite their enthusiasm for the project, though, Doherty himself did not show up at the press conference-slash-launch for the book, leaving commissioning editor Ian Preece to announce the details.

Doherty was, apparently, watching the Holland against Argentina match. We did that, too. Preece, speaking at the Boogaloo in Highgate, said Doherty's preference for football was "rock and roll". If he was as bored as we were, he'd have more likely rolled onto his side and fallen asleep.

The hardback book - a compilation of 20-odd journals - will follow Doherty's rise to fame, through The Libertines and that other band he's allegedly in, Kate Moss and all that drug nonsense. Thing is, don't we already know this shit? Not entirely, so says Mr Preece:

"From the early books a fascinating and very entertaining picture emerges of the young poet, broke in London, serving popcorn at the Prince Charles Cinema, dreaming of creating a band infused with the 'spirit of Albion'.

"Some of it is quite funny. But some of it is very, very dark. All of it is incredibly readable. It is intimate and honest stuff and a complete antidote to a lot of what you might have read about him."

Doherty has released a statement about the book, saying that he'd always wanted to have his words published. Me too, Pete, me too... shame the Mr Men guys weren't keen on the adventures of Mr Smackhead.

in fairness to P.Doughy

he has always been much better with a pen and paper than with a guitar and microphone

though calling him a poet is perhaps a little extreme

here's a poem:

Warning To Children

Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this:
Blocks of slate enclosing dappled
Red and green, enclosing tawny
Yellow nets, enclosing white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where a neat brown paper parcel
Tempts you to untie the string.
In the parcel a small island,
On the island a large tree,
On the tree a husky fruit.
Strip the husk and pare the rind off:
In the kernel you will see
Blocks of slate enclosed by dappled
Red and green, enclosed by tawny
Yellow nets, enclosed by white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where the same brown paper parcel -
Children, leave the string alone!
For who dares undo the parcel
Finds himself at once inside it,
On the island, in the fruit,
Blocks of slate about his head,
Finds himself enclosed by dappled
Green and red, enclosed by yellow
Tawny nets, enclosed by black
And white acres of dominoes,
With the same brown paper parcel
Still untied upon his knee.
And, if he then should dare to think
Of the fewness, muchness, rareness,
Greatness of this endless only
Precious world in which he says
he lives - he then unties the string.

Robert Graves

Oh Mike...

You do have a wonderful way with words!

True

I read extracts in the Guardian (possibly?) earlier in the year, and they were really readable, and very interesting.

True.

September 1st 2003

Got up, took drugs, went out, took drugs, the rest of the day is a blur but now I'm in prison.

I'll bet that diary is

going to be extremely exciting.

Monday - Got up. jacked up
Tuesday - Got up. Smacked up
Wednesday - Got Up ran out of smack, bought more, then jacked up.
Thursday - Got voted coolest Junkie in the world and most influential person that has ever lived. Went home. jacked up.
Friday - burgled my mum
Sat - Checked into rehab
Sun - Checked out. Went home. jacked up. read the nme with my face on the front again. Jacked up.

The End.

p.s. Stay tuned for DOHERTY - THE MOVIE

September 2nd 2003

Carl Barat, you've got a butt that won't quit mnolwibdujovewwpioeowbvdow they'sve got these real chewy pretzels $5? Get outta here!

i read one of his 'diaries'

from when he got banged up for something or other last year. it was like a cockney Kurt Cobain. "cor, the judge slammed his gavel and sent me down!" etc etc etc

yawn.....

uh oh ah....what? A book? great.......

WHY?

I have seen the Albion Room Journals, they are full of the ramblings of a an idiot and polaroid photos of naked girls with fried egg boobs believe you me the only people who will like this are schizophrenics, drug addicts (before their brains are addled) and girls with fried egg boobs.

We have got to stop thinking this man is a genius all we have done is give him a huge ego, so what if he was watching the football so were millions of other people and we wouldn't want to read their inner most thoughts.

Oh and by the way Pete Doherty is a batty!

yes!

the diaries they printed in the Guardian were totally ludicrous!

"we get to watch TV in the nick. I saw my bird on an advert today, swinging 'er 'ips selling make-up." etc.

Days of crack & smack

While I imagine young Peter's cannon of poetry is a little thin he does have a way with words so if he can get his shit together for a few weeks and polish up his diary this book may be entertaining.

However if he's already got his hands on the advance it'll just be the ramblings of a buffudled smackhead.

My money is on the later.

www.idontgiveashit.com

there

who

cares

^True.

They were fucking unreadable. Worst. Handwriting. Ever.

and a pictures of naked girls I wish I could dispell :(

hehe

not if it isn't advertising anything.

could you not have put that in the body of your post?

i don't give enough of a shit to copy and paste.

crack up his albion

bored with cricket on the village greens
and tea and scones on the lawn
overpriced homemade jams

The albion in all its glory
doesnt exist outside british tourist board vidoes
from the 1950's

most overated song writer since gay dad

publish his scribbles -
why stop there -
Pete's photo dariy of all the tiolets he pissed in this year

pete's top ten dealers

pete's london - tourist walks of the underbelly of the east end

oh yeah but i forgot he is a Genius???

cock!

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