Indie icon Pete Doherty has admitted that the real reason he had to cancel a recent Irish tour is because he was on a life support machine. Read More
Pete Doherty reminded fans of his rock star credentials by lighting a cigarette on stage at McClusky's on Thursday night. Read More
Delivering this year's Orwell Memorial Lecture to a packed house at Birkbeck College, Hilary Mantel understandably chose to talk about Thomas Crom-well, the hero of her Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall. Read More
Pete Doherty reminded fans of his rock star credentials by lighting a cigarette on stage at McClusky's on Thursday night. Read More
STEREOPHONICS perform as part of the Children In Need celebrations at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff tonight as they release their latest album, more on which later. Read More
Phillips de Pury is an esteemed auction house dating back to 1796. Read More
In the age of the Internet, mass communication and rapid pace, it seems very few themes had a chance to settle. Read More
New York rockers The Strokes have topped a list of the best albums of the decade, beating British indie stars – and tabloid darlings – The Libertines into second place. Read More
From any perspective it's clear that the institution which is British Independent Rock Music is in desperate need of saviours. Read More
Six nights ago, 16.6 million people – more than half of those in Britain watching TV at the time – turned their sets to ITV1 to watch three 18-year-olds battle for their places on The X Factor . Read More
The Libertines joined the pop fray of 2002, competing with the likes of the Strokes, Hives, Read the full The Libertines bio.