Given a choice between who I'd like to end up sitting next to on a long haul flight, I'd choose Pete Doherty over Carl Barat any day, but I have to say in my most humble of opinions, in terms of post-Libertines projects, Dirty Pretty Things are churning out much better tunes than those Babyshamblers. But Pete doesn't agree. In his latest rambling about his acrimonious relationship with his former bandmate, Doherty said recently: "I paid the price. I got kicked out of the band. And with nothing, no sweat from anyone, we got it together with Babyshambles. We really got it. All he's got is the fact that he was in the best band and now he's in the worst band. And he needs to sort that out".
Still, Pete did have some nice things to say about his former friend, with whom Doherty is reportedly on slightly better terms these days. Pete reports that whatever he may have said about Carl, he can't deny that when they were friends Barat "used to get me good crack". Which I find is the most important thing in any friendship.