The Libertines talk meeting Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood at Glastonbury 2025

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With The Libertines' Glastonbury 2025 Pyramid Stage show coming just before Rod Stewart's legend's slot, Pete Doherty and Carl Barat met us backstage to tell us about being given whiskey by "bit of a ledge" Sir Rod and "plectrums with tits on them" from the mighty Rolling Stone. Check at NME soon for more of our interview with The Libertines

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00:00I just saw Ronnie Wood walking about, you see if the other place is...

00:07Uncle Ronnie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:09Just had a tickle and a giggle with Ronnie Young.

00:11Let's break this off there.

00:12We once gave me a guitar pick, like randomly, we were hanging around for a while,

00:18and they ended up giving me a guitar pick.

00:20And they looked at it, and it was one of those hard ones that I can't blame for the snap.

00:24They had some tits on it.

00:25Oh.

00:26He has a way, he has a way of making you just feel alright.

00:29He gives you a smile and slap your shoulder and he would, you know.

00:31And he's a fucking good guitarist.

00:33He is such a good guitarist.

00:34I mean like, mellifluous guitarist.

00:38Yeah, got a great lip balm.

00:39After the small face.

00:40And he can paint.

00:41He does those massive oil paintings.

00:42At least he does those there else.

00:44But I wouldn't leave a bit of room with my missus lately.

00:46I'm joking, I'm joking.

00:48Have you seen Rod?

00:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:50We've just been able to see him.

00:50Yeah.

00:51We just got partly escorted out of the family section, actually.

00:55No alcohol up there.

00:57He's wearing a full on, what do you call the bullfighters?

01:00Matador.

01:01Yeah, he's wearing a Matador Toriadorian.

01:04Like, the kind of thing that you would have worn if you had Rod not worn it.

01:09Yeah.

01:10But he was just, like, he was just...

01:12Having a good old fucking knees up.

01:14Like, when I was susceptible to other people, Scarborough Steve was like the last word in

01:19call for me.

01:20And his icons were Johnny Funders, Jim Morrison.

01:23But he also had, like, he had a picture of Rod Stewart on his wall.

01:27It was the still.

01:28It was the picture of the front cover of an album called Never A Doll Moment.

01:33I think Maggie Mays on that record.

01:34Yeah.

01:34And he put it on one day and it just, it made me think of Rod Stewart in a different way.

01:39Because, you know, I'd grown up with sailing and that.

01:42And then hearing this growly, like, you know, dirty guitars, sort of faces thing.

01:47He's a bit of a ledge, really.

01:48You know what I mean?

01:49I know Glasgow Rangers fans hate him and all that.

01:52And he seems to be, like, on a sort of Morris-y Nigel Farage.

01:55He sends some Farage-y stuff into it, yeah.

01:57But that's that generation, isn't it?

01:59Yeah.

01:59You know?

01:59The new change when he brought us some whisky.

02:02He sent a bottle of whisky.

02:04Oh, that's nuts.

02:04To the dressing room.

02:05Yeah, and everyone who was in two minds.

02:08He's just a bit of a ledge, isn't he?

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