Pete Doherty recalls sitting outside gig while fans ‘tore the place apart’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Pete Doherty recalled how he once sat in a taxi outside a London music venue suffering from hallucinations, while fans “tore the place apart” because he’d failed to show up for the gig. “All this going on, I’m just in the back of the taxi, in quite a peaceful state, but I was really hallucinating, you know, on ketamine and crack, and so things like that could have, do we want to tamper with history.” Doherty, who recently shared a positive health update, admitted that he’d “always been really confused” about the notion of giving advice to his younger self. Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Thinking about the question “upset” him, he said, as he clarified that this tumultuous period of his life “wasn’t all dark” and there was also “a lot of laughter”. “Get some sleep, because that was always where things would go seriously wrong, two or three days up and then stupid things, like criminal things, where you don’t really don’t know what you’re doing.