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The term ‘landfill indie’ is pure snobbery from people who don’t know how to have fun

The term is so sneeringly reductive it’s like your Grandad listing the relative merits of each Pokémon

Pete Doherty challenges Liam Gallagher to a boxing match: “He needs a slap”

Pete Doherty has jokingly suggested that he and Liam Gallagher duke it out in a charity boxing match. The Libertines and former Oasis frontmen made...

Pete Doherty on the chances of Babyshambles returning

Pete Doherty has revealed that Babyshambles have been offered money to reform, but doubts that the band will be making a comeback in the...

Pete Doherty on what ‘Albion’ means in the era of Brexit

Pete Doherty has shared how he feels about the idea of 'Albion' in the years since the Brexit vote, as well as revealing that...

Pete Doherty: “Smack and prison are subjects I’ll sit and talk about all day”

Pete Doherty has opened up about his longstanding and complicated relationship and "fascination" with drugs, sharing his feelings of warning people of the dangers...

Pete Doherty, interviewed: “I’m not that messed up arsehole”

Last month over a boozy dinner in Margate, Peter Doherty celebrated his 40th birthday. The artist who spent much of the century as a...

Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres – ‘Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres’ review

“Let’s get straight to the heart of the matter,” sang Pete Doherty on The Libertines’ long-awaited comeback album ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’. While a...

Pete Doherty on why Brexit will “be the best thing in the world for music”

Pete Doherty has said that Brexit will "be the best thing in the world for music", arguing that it will result in "an incredible backlash"...

Remember Frog, Nambucca and The Rhythm Factory? Check out these pictures of London’s mid-2000s indie disco scene

Remember the mid-2000s? Well photographer Gregory Nolan certainly does. His new book and exhibition - This Was Our Scene - features pics taken at...

Liam Gallagher on how Drew McConnell joined his band – and the time he met Pete Doherty

Liam Gallagher has hailed his bassist Drew McConnell as 'fucking talented', as well as recalling the time he met his Babyshambles bandmate Pete Doherty. ...