The Libertines talk late nights and the magic of Glastonbury 2025: "There's nowhere like this"

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Straight after their beautiful Pyramid Stage slot at Glastonbury 2025, The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barat tell us about their nights out at the festival, what makes it so magical and meeting Michael Eavis. Check back at NME soon for more from our video interview.

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00:00I just caught you having a chat with Michael.

00:08Oh, my Lord.

00:09What's he got to say for himself?

00:10He's an icon of merry old England, man.

00:13You know, if I ever build my totem pole that I've been talking about designing and planning

00:17for so long now that it's never going to happen, he's going to be on it.

00:20I don't know if people in England realise how much the rest of the world envies the

00:25music, especially the music that comes out of this country and the Glastonbury Festival

00:30in itself.

00:31I've been around the block a few times now and I've played a lot of festivals around

00:35the world but there's nowhere like this and I'm not talking about here in the sanitised

00:41backstage area where you've got soap and shit like that.

00:44The thing that it is out there, that fucking mad psychedelic, it's still there, I'm telling

00:48you.

00:49They've tried to make those fences deep but I'm telling you there's still fucking tinkers

00:53getting in and having it up.

00:54It's like that.

00:55Jack Jones for example, he's ruined his hands and he's put his kneecap out of the joint but

01:01he made it in.

01:02Carl asked you a very good question on stage, when did you go to bed last night?

01:06I went to bed fairly early actually, we took the babby back and we watched a bit of Glastonbury

01:13on telly with the babby and had a little dance actually.

01:16That's not the answer he wanted, the end we wanted because you got into a sweat lodge about

01:20nine and...

01:21No, French time, we went to bed about half eleven.

01:24Oh nice, I went to bed on like Titan, a really good hour.

01:29Because you were here as well yesterday right?

01:30Yeah.

01:31What did you get up to?

01:32Stuff that made me look like this.

01:35Yeah, I had a good time though.

01:37I managed to summon the dust of your spirit I think.

01:42I love the way that everyone marches to their own tunic at Glastonbury and everyone, the

01:50whole site wide, everyone is the version of themselves that they don't quite dare to

01:54be in their normal life.

01:55I think there's something really beautiful in that.

01:57The mask is strops and you've got people's peculiarities, eccentricities, bents, kinks,

02:04whatever, for all the world to see and they're comfortable with that.

02:12Let's go.

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