Musicrooms.net: Babyshambles Will Continue On Album Despite Doherty's Incarceration

Babyshambles Will Continue On Album Despite Doherty's Incarceration
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Menho Donoghue on 10 April, 2008
 
Ficek says the band already have demos of songs for the new album, and that they
plan to meet with producer Stephen Street (producer of second album 'Shotter's
Nation') to discuss him producing the new long player even in Doherty's absence.
The drummer told NME: "We stick together, stay positive and keep the music
alive. Just before I went on holiday we reconvened and gave Peter a new CD full
of songs to start demo-ing for the new album. Mik [Whitnall, guitar] had gone
into the studio and put down guitar parts and ideas. I definitely think we'll
have a new album out at the end of this year or early next year. The 'Shambles
ship will stay on course. This [Doherty's jail time] is a real bad thing for a
friend, but he's going to be fine".
Elsewhere in Doherty news, fans of the Babyshambler have launched a Facebook
group calling for Pete to be let out of prison. They say the frontman needs
"therapy not punishment", though if I remember rightly the courts have given him
lots of the former as well as a bit of the latter. I'm not sure the courts take
much notice of Facebook petitions, though we live in strange times, so who
knows?