Pete Doherty

In my old Maisonette in De Beauvoir Town, there was a ground floor flat with an extension that extended out below our kitchen. There were skylights on the roof as there weren't any windows and you could see straight into what was the front room at night if the lights were on and the blinds not drawn.

Anyway, after the girl who live there moved out. I met the new tennant in the shared alleyway when he was moving in all his (musical) equipment. I thought, oh bollox we got a load a fucking musicians moving in downstairs. As if living next door to a pub was not bad enough

Anyhow, one night, they started playing double bass at about 3 in the morning. I just told the wife Bxs to ignore it as it weren't too loud from our bedroom. But not known for her placid temperment she was having none of it. She flew straight down there and shut them up. When she came back up the stairs I asked her what happened.

'Some twat who looked like Pete Doherty dressed only in skinny jeans and a twat hat opened the door off his face' she said. 'Shut the fuck up I told them' , 'Sorry love' he said. 'You fucking will be if it starts again!'

Anyhow, she told me she thought it looked like Pete, but I said all the cunts round here look like that. But next morning, I saw him in the alleyway. So upon chekcing the name of the guy from his mail in our shared mail box, it turned out half the fucking Babyshambles had moved into the flat below.

I must say though that after it happened again, Drew ( the bassist ) came round with some wine and chocolate and give us his numbers and told us if he ever disturbed us late like that again to ring and he would stop. He was actually a really nice guy. But Pete used to turn up a lot and we could look straight down some nights and see them lining up off the table and smoking spliff/crack or whatever. I was always hoping Kate would turn up for some choice pics, but she never did. Always loads of groupies hanging around though.

Just thought I would share that with you