Doherty plays private gig for barred fan

Pete Doherty played a private pre-show gig for a 15-year-old fan who had been banned from a pub concert for being underage, it has emerged.

Matt Richardson from Southampton was told that he could not buy tickets for the show and had to leave the Torriano pub in Kentish Town at 7pm due to licensing laws.

Richardson told GigJunkie: "Because we had travelled close to 100 miles, the owner went downstairs to talk to Peter. Minutes later, she came back upstairs, and said to me, 'Right, you've got a private session with Pete for a bit'.

"On seeing us, he greeted us, and asked us how we were. We explained about all the licensing shenanigans, and he seemed sympathetic."

He added: "He then found his black blazer resting on the sofa, and took out his Moleskine notebook from a pocket. Handing me the book, he told me to write out a setlist, and he'd give us a private gig as a way of saying sorry.

"It was myself, my mum, and Peter Doherty. Just us three together, in the basement of a pub. Don't believe what you may read in the tabloids, this was the real gentleman that is Peter Doherty."

Doherty was later joined by original Libertines drummer Paul 'Mr Razzcocks' Dufour during his official pub show.