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Truth or myth? Decide for yourself...
Rumour has it that...
... Pete once lived inside a large guitar for two weeks when he was skint in London. He then resold the giant guitar to its former owner Ronnie Corbett. Matt also sent us photographic "prove":
... The Libertines cancelled both their Aberdeen 2004 tour dates because they are actually sons of the river god and will freeze in such cold temperatures. Or if it rains they will turn back into puddles and would get sprayed all over the pavement if driven through. As a precaution, try not to drive through puddles anymore. (No, we have no idea where Nikolai got that from)
... Kool Keith was meant to become a fully paid member of the band, but when he discovered that Pete put salt even on his pizzas, he was so scared that he ran all the way back to Miami. Submitted by Nicolas
... (according to Jamie), Pete once ate so many pestachio nuts that he was taken to hospital where he met "The Really Wild Show" legend Terry Nutkins who had been bitten by a meer cat and harassed by a badger.
... Pete once had a secret affair with a dog named Mike L. Snuggles, says Zoominzack@aol.com.
... John was born with green hair on a pool table of the Britania Pub. At least that's what Jamie believes.
... Pete was Mole in the English version of "Wind in the Willows".
... Gary and Carl first met at a stray dog centre. Gary knew straight away that Carl was the perfect dog for the other bandmates.
... Pete used to play Tinky Winky in the teletubbies.
... Carl is half German, half Swedish. He used to be called Helga before he had a sex change, due to genital problems.
... Carl/Helga's first major singing role was in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
... Gary once played as an extra in Eastenders. He was on Mark's stall.
... John was raised by a pack of wolves, on the downs in Brighton.
... Carl is a naked mole rat at the weekends.
... Pete was actually one of the original members of the Spice Girls until they realised he was a bloke.
... Pete's wife is actually a 40 year old man with 3 nipples. These last 10 myths were sent in by Josie. How does she know? We'd better not ask.
... as a gig game, Carl and Pete eat certain smelly foods away from each others sights and then sing face to face in order to guess what the other has eaten. Whoever guesses correctly first gets a lapdance from the other after the show (sent in by Dion
.. someone in The Libertines is heavily addicted to cat food! Read about that here.
... the Libs originally planned to record a follow-up album titled 'Down the Gullet' containing all the songs that didn't make it onto 'Up the Bracket'.
... John was the frog in E.T. who the little boy set free.
... it is the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. - sent in by Oscar W. via fax.
... The Libertines are too good to be true, in fact Michael Bracewell designed them in a lab.
... in 1996 Peter Doherty was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
... the second Libertines album will be recorded in Panama.
... new song 'Arbeit macht frei' is a DAGOWOPS cover and is correctly pronounced 'are-bite mockt fry'.
... inspired by recent pics of Peter & Carl snogging onstage, Russian girl group Tatu will do a cover version of 'Boys in the Band' later this year.
... Carl and Pete live together and that Pete locked Carl out before the Whitechapel Gig.
... Carl and Pete - before living in that house - shared a flat with an anorexic prostitute, residing above a brothel on Holloway Rd.
... that that same prostitute who was in love with Carl, tried to stab Pete in the throat with a pair of scissors.
... Carl used to be homeless.
... Pete is Morrissey's illegitmate son
... Pete comes from a shattered family, the poor lamb, and his foster mother thinks he's his dad.
... Peter has blear eyes. Joke.
... the Libertines prefer being alone when doing smack (or at least that's what was written down on a note they gave to a journalist during an interview).
... that their manageress signed them primarily because their singer at the time looked a little like Julian Casablancas out of the Strokes.
... Pete never gets to the second interview because he always gets it on with the first journalist.
... the Libertines had planned to work on a manifesto in a pub in London, the Red Lion, but then only managed to make the pact of writing better songs.
... originally had planned to found an army - thus the red uniforms.
... Carl is related to Basil Rathbone (of Sherlock Holmes fame).
... The Libertines have fired their first tour manager because he was too strict, and that one of the sound engineers quit in a huff.
... Bernard Butler was thrown pumpkins at & given a black eye.
... Pete and Carl worked as rent-boys. They subscribed to an agency called "Aristocats" believing that their job would be to wine and dine women. Instead it turned out that they were meant to sell their little bums to dirty old men.
... Carl once had a fulltime job where he had to throw lettuce into a giant freezer, while Pete worked as gravedigger.
... The Libertines once played a gig in a home for the aged. Reactions of the audience: one woman died, another kept screaming: "I've seen you at the Palladium in 1949 - you haven't changed one bit!"
... Gary used to play in an evil Pearl Jam cover band.
... John couldn't find the stage at the Barrowlands gig and ended up asking someone "could you please guide me?", looking rather cute and lost.
... Pete once was in the Queens Park Rangers.
... the correct pronounciation of "Libertines" is not "libertines" as in "tambourine" but "libertine" as in "clementine".
... Pete has a secret fetish that involves ears. And according to Emily, John is obsessed with armpits. hairy ones.
... a lot of Libertines fans are ladies over 60 who grew up listening to the Beatles - and who think that their new favourite band, The Libertines, is just as good if not even better!
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