As it turns out, Doherty did not get on with the band and actually used to outright refuse to listen to them. Despite sharing a fanbase, Doherty confessed to Phil Taggart on his podcast that he “heard they were good” so ignored them completely.

“The Arctic Monkeys, I just refused to listen to them,” he recalled. “And managed to avoid them for a long long time, ’cause I heard they were good and I didn’t want to listen to them…”

He then went onto confess that he actually went as far as avoiding them in person anytime they were sharing a stage.

“There’s been a few things that have happened where I didn’t know them by sight and they’ve come to say hello and I’ve had them slung out or something, and then when I tried to go say hello I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere near their backstage,” said Doherty. “So I still haven’t met them.”

He then joked: “I dunno, that fella [Turner]. I suppose he’s a good songwriter, isn’t he? I wouldn’t want to be in a relationship with him though. He really pulls them apart in those songs, the ones that I’ve heard, you know? There’s a few embarrassed girls out there I’ll tell you now.”

And that’s your random and surprising fact about Pete Doherty for the day.

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As it turns out, Doherty did not get on with the band and actually used to outright refuse to listen to them. Despite sharing a fanbase, Doherty confessed to Phil Taggart on his podcast that he “heard they were good” so ignored them completely.

“The Arctic Monkeys, I just refused to listen to them,” he recalled. “And managed to avoid them for a long long time, ’cause I heard they were good and I didn’t want to listen to them…”

He then went onto confess that he actually went as far as avoiding them in person anytime they were sharing a stage.

“There’s been a few things that have happened where I didn’t know them by sight and they’ve come to say hello and I’ve had them slung out or something, and then when I tried to go say hello I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere near their backstage,” said Doherty. “So I still haven’t met them.”

He then joked: “I dunno, that fella [Turner]. I suppose he’s a good songwriter, isn’t he? I wouldn’t want to be in a relationship with him though. He really pulls them apart in those songs, the ones that I’ve heard, you know? There’s a few embarrassed girls out there I’ll tell you now.”

And that’s your random and surprising fact about Pete Doherty for the day.

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