Carl Barat has been telling BBC 6music about various collaborations he is trying to get under way with Mark Ronson, John McClure from Reverend & The Makers and the supergroup he formed with Tim Burgess from The Charlatans and Klaxons' Jamie Reynolds, The Chavs.
He said: "I wanna do a track with [Ronson] for this film about northern soul music [but] I can't get hold of him. Maybe he is ignoring me, I don't know. [Also,] I'm just making a little dub record. To see how it goes, and if it's no good then well just leave it. It's just something I want to do and something [McClure] wants to do. [The Chavs' music] is gonna be our darker stuff that we haven't been able to do with our bands. I think, I mean the inspiration starting points were the later PiL records. The idea is everyone brings something to the table really and we just see how it goes. It might change completely, but The Chavs are not going to be too silly anymore".
He also spoke about the rapidly-becoming-tedious topic of a Libertines reunion (or lack of one), saying: "I'm open to doing something in the future. Well, we are going to have unfinished business... until we finish it. There's nothing on the horizon as we speak".