I am a huge fan of The Libertines, and their music–and that of Babyshambles and Dirty Pretty Things–had a massive impact on me.  Hell, in 2006 when I broke up with my boyfriend I sent him the song Music When the Lights Go Out, as it was practically written about the relationship and how much I had soured on it.

But after I read this BBC interview with Carl Barat about a possible reunion with Pete Doherty after their acrimonious split in 2004, I was left wondering:  does anyone care if they get back together again?  From the BBC:

Former Libertines star Carl Barat has said he expects some “hostility” to the notion of a band reunion in 2011.  The musician also admitted that he had not yet discussed the idea with his former co-frontman Pete Doherty.

“I sent him a text a couple of weeks ago, but he never got back,” Barat said during rehearsals for his theatrical debut next week.

Earlier this week, Barat told the Evening Standard that it would be “glorious” to reform the band in 2011.

Carl, what you face may not be hostility, but ambivalence.

Any Libertines fan knows that a possible reunion of the band has become an almost quarterly news story in the music press that never goes anywhere. Back in 2006, when the idea was first mentioned seriously, my hopes were huge.   I remember forwarding stories to my friends that were full of exclamation marks.  But story after story, year after year, I simply don’t care any more.  And who is to say that a reconstituted band would do any justice to the early work?  They both have carved out admirable careers in the interim, but I think most of us have moved on from the idea that it will ever happen.

Shit or get off the pot, mates, but fans and non-fans alike are a bit sick of all the never-ending talk about it.

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