DOHERTY'S DOUGH PITY

Pete Doherty must have come to for a few moments recently as he's roused himself sufficiently to start worrying about his band's finances. It must have been like that scene in 'Pulp Fiction' where Uma Thurman gets an adrenaline shot in the heart. Only a much more ugly sight. And probably no Scientologists around.

Doherty is apparently worrying about Babyshambles' business affairs because he constantly has no cash. And his coherent reasoning for this thought? People always tell him that he should be able to afford stuff and he can't.

He tells MTV.co.uk: "We've got a few concerns at the moment over issues with management, where the money has been going and distribution of wealth.

"We need to sit down as a band and talk about the future. What's happening and why, when and who with. Two years of arseing about, we could actually make money out of this job.

"I've just realised people are always saying to me 'yeah but you can afford it' and I'm like 'what's making them say that?'"

Maybe he can't afford stuff because he's a degenerate addict who can't look after his own cash? And maybe people think he can afford things because his fame is so completely disproportionate to any actual musical abilities that they can't understand how someone can be that famous and not make money out of it.

But they're forgetting that unlike most music stars, who are famous for their music, Pete's fame lies in the fact that he's a walking rock cliché who somehow managed to lure a supermodel into his seedy world for a couple of years.