Carl Barat says recording the Libertines' second album with co-frontman Pete Doherty was "nasty". He says the band were only able to record on 10 days of the two months they'd booked because of Doherty's drug problems.
Barat told Rolling Stone: "It was nasty. It was very difficult. We were having security there to keep the drug parties out of the studio.
"There were too many drugs happening and violent tantrums. I just wish
it wasn't like this."
Barat says the album, entitled simply The Libertines, would never have been
recorded had it not been for producer Mick Jones.
"He's got a lot of love and understands the situation. We couldn't have
done it with someone who didn't understand what it was to have a drug problem,"
he said.
Barat said he hadn't expected Doherty to be clean but was surprised to see
his condition seemed to have worsened.
"I think I was misled into thinking he was going to make himself better,"
Barat says. "I wanted to believe it so much."
He said he hadn't decided on the band's future but stressed that Doherty was
still welcome back if he cleaned up his act.
"If he doesn't sort himself out, I'm going to have to come up with some
sort of B plan. He's got to decide he wants to do it. Even that decision alone
- if it's genuine, I'll do anything I can to help him."
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