Arrested Again

Pete was arrested again yesterday. According to may news reports from sites like the Guardian, Associated Press, and Festival Wise, he pleaded guilt to heroin use and driving without a license or insurance. He was released on a £50,000 ($82,000) bail. There was also £35 worth of heroin in his car and £500 in his house. 

He goes to court in August but until then he has a 7pm to 7am curfew in which he must stay in his Wiltshire house (except for when performing), he can not ride in the front seat of any vehicle, must attend weekly Narcotic Anonymous meetings, and must have his anti-addiction implant again to blocks his opiate receptors. The Guardian also said "the court also heard that Doherty, 30, has a £100-a-day heroin habit."

I've been reading some of the comments on these articles, and they are so full of hate. People bash on him saying "Who cares about this dumbass druggie? Let him rot in jail again!" and "never heard his music. Don't care to. A maid will find him soon in some hotel room. To bad his organs wont be fit for donation."

It kills me that people are bashing on him and for what reasons? I hate how so many people bash on him because they all they see his a druggie and Kate Moss's ex-boyfriend. Even in most of the positive interviews with him, they mention his drug use and how he used to date Kate Moss. Why must people only know him in these ways? 

Why can't people listen to his music and not judge it before even listening to it? Of course if they listen to a song by him thinking "this is shit", that is what they will hear. Listen to "Music When the Lights Go Out" by the Libertines and then try telling me it is shit. The poetry of ever line in that song is astounding, as it is in most of his songs.

I am not trying to sound like a fan who thinks they know him and back whatever he does. However, because I actually listen to his music and have read his lyrics and the diaries from Books of Albion, I think I see more of a real side to him rather than the druggie fuck up painted of him by the media.

Please, remember him as a musician and poet.