While most are busy just trying to figure Pete Doherty's degree of intoxication, Noisettes-guitarist Dan Smith poses a different question: Is Pete an egomaniac, or simply a saboteur?
The story: The Noisettes were opening for Babyshambles at a gig in Birmingham Academy on Sunday night, and a restless crowd began with the boos. But troopers that they are, the Noisettes had every intention of closing out the set ?- until their singer Shingai jacked her shoulder while cartwheeling across stage! Maybe the crowd's calls for her head distracted her. And though the band ended up walking off mid-set, Smith blames the crowd's acrimonious state on CoKate Moss's harmonizing partner. Here's Dan's rant, from the Noisettes' MySpace blog:
I'd just like to say, Pete, what the fuck were you doing coming out onstage while we were setting up to play? Are you really that much of an egomaniac or did you want to actually sabbotage our show? After that point the donkeys had gotten a taste of the carrot- They weren't going to tolerate any other band getting up to play. They'd seen their Messiah walking across the fucking stage. But had Shingai not gotten seriously injured like that, we would have kept going whether people were booing or throwing shit. I personally was getting OFF on the negative reaction from so many fuckheads.
But before a war of words could commence, it would seem a publicist advised Dan to temper his temper. Another blog post, twelve hours later:
I'm sorry- i don't mean any ill will to Pete and the rest of the babyshambles- I don't really know Pete and i'm sure he did'nt really mean any harm ... I just got really upset seeing my friend shing in such pain and i'm more angry with myself for just being useless in the face of all this- i kind of froze - did'nt know what to do- I also don't mean any bad feelings to Babyshambles fans - ahh fuck, it' s over - tommorow is another day
Guess we'll never get to hear Pete's side of it, so what do you think? Egoist? Show saboteur? Or drugged-up has been? (Yes, you may vote for all three.)
