have been precedents for this sort of thing, most notably the Meltdown seasons on the South Bank, but given the recent events of his life, ldquo;Pete Doherty rsquo;s Meltdown rdquo; might have sent out unfortunate signals. Far better the Apart from anything else, it was a billing that assured he would be there mdash; In fact, Doherty was conspicuously active throughout last night rsquo;s show mdash; for reasons that would later become clear. Beyond his new corporate paymasters at EMI, it remains unclear who Peter rsquo;s Friends are these days.
As it turns out, one of them is ldquo;an old man from the 60s rdquo;. That, at any rate, was how folk guitar legend Bert Jansch introduced himself. Picking through the devil-may-care sentiments seemed suited to the host of the evening, who Of all the Jansch songs that they might have duetted on, you wouldn rsquo;t have bet Doherty has become synonymous.
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