Pete Doherty ‘edgy’? Give me strength.

I’ve found myself commenting on Pete ‘hang on, I’ve not been arrested for something for at least three days’ Doherty on the Guardian Culture Vulture blog, just when I was doing quite a good job of ignoring him. Caroline Sullivan has opined that Doherty is ‘edgy’ and ‘revered’ in a manner similar to Keith Richards. I see that as seriously dissing Keef. He has been working for many a long year on his image of ‘elegantly wasted’ by taking more drugs than the population of Birmingham have collectively had hot dinners, playing in the most long-lived rock band ever, and has miraculously survived to become the gnarled, fly-blown, wrinkled god of rock and roll decadence that he is. Pete doesn’t look like he’s started shaving yet – and Babyshambles is the most underwhelming rock act since Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin formed Brown Sauce. It’s like comparing Lindsay Lohan’s acting career to Lauren Bacall’s.