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Pete Doherty and Carl Barat hold songwriting sessions together

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Could a Libertines reunion be on the cards?

Former Libertines Pete Doherty and Carl Barat have reportedly been writing songs together and are considering using them for future release.

According to The Sun, the pair had been writing songs for a musical together before Barat was rushed to hospital and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, but are thinking of keeping some of the songs to record together themselves.

The newspaper quotes an anonymous source as saying: "Songs have been pouring out of the pair and now they're considering holding back a few compositions to record and maybe release in the future."

Since being hospitalised Barat has told NME.COM that he hopes to be fit to perform with Dirty Pretty Things at Glastonbury.

Leave a get-well-soon message for Carl Barat on the NME Office Blog now.

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Babyshambles-pete 

Jun 24, 2008

BEST NEWS OF THE WEEK!I loved the libertines and would love to see pete and carl reunite again although i still love the shambles and DPT i would rather see the libertines back on the scene

White_riot5 

Jun 24, 2008

I want this to be true so badly but The Sun is hardly a reliable news source

cultureslut87 

Jun 24, 2008

The Sun said it, it probably isn't true. it's common knowledge now that the two have been working on songs for a musical though how many they have writen is not known due to Carl being taken to hospital and Peter being locked up for a while. They seem to be constantly seperate so i personally doubt they are working on future releases yet although i would like very much for it to be true. Carlhad already said that he would reform The Libertines only if they were to definately do another album so it could be true, however he also said that the lib's would not reform until after he was done with Dirty pretty Things. Their new album has just been released and the whole band seem happy with each other so it could be quite a while before the Lib's do reform but at least we still have DPT and Babyshambles

itzokayy 

Jun 24, 2008

serious not-giving a fuck alert

insearchoftheperfectwave 

Jun 24, 2008

i want this to be true so bad

qcardy 

Jun 24, 2008

the Sun is unreliable but I hope its true!

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