Well, it was bound to happen. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins has been slagging lots of people off recently, so it was only a matter of time before the boy got around to having a pop at the, er, lovely, Pete Doherty. According to NME, Justin said: "I'd say firstly he doesn't do rock music, and secondly, he only sells records because people are curious as to what a junkie sounds like. I think that's really wrong and really irresponsible...I think he's a talentless waste of fucking skin!"
Darkness drummer Ed Graham joined in the Doherty bashing, saying: "You wouldn't mind so much if the bloke had written a song that was good enough to justify all his publicity, but he's not got a good song in his body. I would like to smash him in the face really hard. I hate everything about him. He should be on the plate. Served up on Sunday, with a selection of veg."
Hawkins: "You wouldn't eat that. You wouldn't put that fucking poison in your mouth would you?"