Peter Doherty on Glasgow and the East Kilbride inspiration behind The Libertines biggest hit

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At the end of a freewheeling conversation about Peter Doherty's solo shows - and him breaking out the guitar to share some new music he is working on - he talks about time in Glasgow in the early days of the band, Scottish music and the inspiration behind The Libertine's anthem Can't Stand Me Now.

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00:00i said that played that sound check the other day with the libya

00:05nothing yeah i didn't even like i mean i think you're onto something i just wanted to close by

00:12asking you because i met i interviewed gary powell at the at the boogaloo one time um and he told me

00:19he remembered like a great night when he was out with arctic monkeys down sucky hall street in

00:23glasgow and uh you know just great vibes of when you guys used to come up in the very very early

00:29days when you came to glasgow do you remember like you know coming up to glasgow and having

00:33good times in the early days i remember the first time we came to glasgow i'd never been i'd never

00:38been to glasgow as a young man in my early 20s and uh it was it was a special night it was a yeah

00:46we had a band called cane supporting us that night and they were proper like uh new york doll iggy pop

00:53aficionado leather jackets like the hair like 1969 studio style which is how we were at the time and

01:01yeah we had a proper knees up man and i did uh and all over the years it's just uh

01:07never let me down glasgow like speaking personally everything from davy spears to mr ben's to to things i

01:15i won't like uh i won't uh i won't complicate things by like you know revisiting here but just

01:24things that have been a big part of my personal journey uh yeah it's a tough place but it's it's uh

01:31it's a joyous beautiful people like yeah creative people but scotland as a whole i think has a

01:37uh as i said like i mean can't stand me now one of living living's best songs comes directly ripped

01:44off from you never understand me you never understand me you can't stand me now can't stand me now

01:56can't stand me now can't stand me now can't stand me now can't stand me now don't you walk away

02:08i'm really sorry i'm gonna have to go pete lovely to meet you bye uh i'll see you again thank you

02:15very much all the best good man

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