Pete Doherty has shared his New Year’s Resolutions for 2025 and reflected on how far he’s come over the past 24 years.
The Libertines frontman recently sat down with NME as part of our In Conversation series and opened up about the changes he plans to implement in his life during 2025. “I don’t know what you mean really, by that. I do make resolutions, but really just to keep on this path that I’m on. To stay off the hard things,” he said.
Doherty was then asked “In the year 2000, where did you imagine you’d be in 25 years’ time,” to which he reflected and responded with: “I’ve got a 20-year-old son now but I wasn’t a hands-on father. I wasn’t really there in many ways. So, it’s what I always wanted, I think. I always wanted a close-knit family that I was there with and for. I’m married as well and settled in a lot of ways, I suppose, maybe I’m wrong.”
“I mean, that’s what a lot of people want, isn’t it? really? That sort of nest and a loving environment. I don’t know if I dared to dream it was possible. I think at that time, turn of the century, 2025 seemed a hell of a long way off.”
Elsewhere in the chat, Doherty teased a Babyshambles reunion for next year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, ‘Down In Albion’.
“It is on the cards,” he told NME. “We will get back together and get in a room with the instruments and play through the old songs, then get on stage and do it,” said Doherty. “But it’s the ‘who’ and the ‘when’ that needs to be worked out. I think we’ll just keep that one on the horizon and deal with that one next year. Before then, I’ve got a new collection of songs which I’m putting out on my own label, which is tidy.”
Asked if he wanted to make another Babyshambles record, he replied: “I’ve got no idea. I wrote a new song the other day that I think would really work as a ‘Shambles song. Who knows? It’s a long way off yet. It’s going to be next Autumn, so we’ll see.”
In other news, This year, The Libertines released a new album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ – their first album in nearly a decade and first to top the charts in 20 years.
They will also be touring throughout 2025, with a headline show at London’s Gunnersbury Park on Saturday August 9. Visit here for tickets and more information.
