Mick Whitnall

[scotty]

A big Rickenbacker user from the modern world Mick Whitnall from Babyshambles.The band is heading into studios to record 9 demos for their third upcoming album. It was announced in December 2008 that on 12th January 2009 along with Roger Daltrey, Babyshambles would be playing a one-off gig at the O2 Academy Bristol in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.Ive actually dismissed the hype about the drugs and Pete Doherty saga from the press cause its boring and realized that this is a band that are now,not that im saying they are the bees knees im saying listen to the music before you pass judgment on the press coverage.Another rickenbacker player.........
A rare Babyshambles - Delivery (Live France TV)


I Wish- Babyshambles

[kiramdear]

Thanks Scotty. These guys are cool. I like the songs and I think the singer's quite the lady killer.

[scotty]

Tell that to Kate Moss!

[kiramdear]

Who's Kate Moss?

[scotty]

Who's Kate Moss?

OK Kira in a nutshell.
Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, artist, published writer and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with punk band The Libertines, alongside Carl Barât. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and his well-publicised drug use.
Doherty and Barât formed a band called The Libertines in the late '90s, although it was not until 2002, with the release of their debut album Up the Bracket, that they began to achieve widespread mainstream success.

The group achieved critical and commercial success and gained a dedicated cult following, with Doherty in particular being praised by fans and critics alike as one of the most promising songwriters to emerge on the British music scene for some time. However, Doherty's increasing drug problems led to his estrangement from the band. In 2003, he was jailed for burgling Barât's flat.

The two initially fell out over this incident, but made amends whilst Doherty was in prison. He was originally sentenced to 6 months, but his sentence was cut to 2 months. Upon his release, Doherty immediately reunited with Barât and the rest of the band to play a gig in the Tap 'n' Tin pub in Chatham, Kent.

Following his rejoining of the band, Doherty sought treatment for his drug addiction. He attended the alternative detox centre Wat Tham Krabok, a temple in Thailand, famous for its rehabilitation program for crack and heroin users, where he was beaten with a bamboo cane and forced to drink foul herbal concoctions to induce vomiting. He left after three days and returned to England. As a consequence of this, The Libertines cancelled appearances that they were due to make at the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury festivals.

However, while post-production work was taking place on the second Libertines album (also called The Libertines) in June 2004, Doherty was again asked to leave the band. The band cited Doherty's continuing drug addiction as the reason for his dismissal, but emphasised their willingness to take him back once he had addressed his addiction. Although Barât had previously stated that the Libertines were merely on hiatus, pending Doherty's recovery, the group effectively disbanded with Doherty's departure at the end of 2004.
All members are now involved in other projects (see Yeti and Dirty Pretty Things).

On 12 April 2007, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât played 13 songs together at the second of Doherty's "An Evening with Pete Doherty" gigs at the Hackney Empire, London.The reunited Libertines played "What a Waster", "Death on the Stairs", "The Good Old Days", "What Katie Did", "Dilly Boys", "Seven Deadly Sins", "France", "Tell the King", "Don't Look Back into the Sun", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Time for Heroes", "Albion" and "The Delaney".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Moss
you need to investigate Babyshambles and Pete. D

[kiramdear]

Erm, maybe I need to monitor the mainstream press more often.

[scotty]

OK heres Mr Pete Doherty before Babyshambles.
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now


and another......

The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun

make you own mind up,the press label Pete as a Junkie with no talent.

[kiramdear]

Oh man! Both those bands kick butt and he is H-O-T. He reminds me of the fabs swaggering around in 1962. He's totally got it. Why do they want to pick on him?

[scotty]

The UK press love to hate him.I hope you enjoyed that Kira Its nice to know that im getting through to to someone who appreciates it. Cheers Kira!

[kiramdear]

Tabloids are worse in UK than they are here Bottom feeders are jealous of anyone really talented.

[kiramdear]

He's a little young for her, don't you think?

[ricky22]

at last, someone has brought up what i was considering for a while, im a big fan but it seems in england there are a lot of haters, hence why i did not bring them up.
seen them 6 times now, great band

[scotty]

Glad you enjoyed it James.

[kiramdear]

Wow, that song is really sweet. I've got goose bumps.

[godber]

The image on the YouTube clip above is from a memorable Newsnight 30 minute interview with Kirsty Wark on BBC3 from 2004. If you get the chance to see it do so, it is a touching piece of work demonstrating some articulate opinions and fine songwriting from Mr. Doherty. The close an intimate acoustic stuff is superb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 106249.stm

The British press will always first engage an artist and fall over themselves to declare their discoveries. When they find the artist doesn't conform, they vilify them. Both the non-conformity and vilification are really extreme in the pop-world today .

I really like a lot of Pete’s work and some is middling. I’ll sidestep the pitiful “my drugs hell” issue other than to say my sympathies would lie with someone who has a hard life inflicted on them rather than someone who makes their own troubles. Sometimes we can be very good and sometimes very bad.

I hadn’t seen the Rickenbackers used by his associated bands before – nice. The boys have taste!

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Thanks for this Scotty, interesting.