"It will never be hipster because you have that smell that the sea gives off"

It could be open in July …

Pete Doherty said NME The new Libertines hotel in Margate reveals what it could open to the public in July.

Watch our comprehensive and thorough interview with Doherty above

Since 2016, the group teases the projects of this five-bedroom, five-storey building, before revealing last year that it's called "The Albion Rooms" and inviting fans to buy their own brick for help build. Despite resistance from local residents, work on the property continued: a recording studio is now completed, as well as hotel rooms and a bar also underway.

"Carl was a very skilled maneuverer to find this blunder," Doherty said. NME. "Before seeing him, he said," Pete, I bought this muscled place by the sea. " I thought "I'm going to have some". "

While the couple disagreed over the price of a Ford GTI that Barat was trying to sell to Doherty, the Babyshambles group leader said he hoped to have proven his skills as a hotel manager.

"In theory, the doors of the hotel are open," he continued. "If you want to book a room, we can discuss it. People came forward. The other day, I was alone, these people came and said that they had nowhere to go for the night, we arranged, they spent the night there -low. They were very clean and I think I handled the situation very well.

"I showed my caliber and I think Carl can rethink all his policy that I can not live on the spot."

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Asked about the hotel's official opening time to the public, Doherty replied, "I would say July would be a very exaggerated estimate of when everything will be available for you to go online, Go there and find accommodation at Albion Rooms. If you can not find anywhere to go with money at the hip, then you are welcome – within reasonable limits.

"You incite people to shout and shout abuse, but you get everywhere you do not? Most of the time, they are quite civilized Arcadian types. "

Confirming that the hotel's recording studios were "operational," Doherty said that not only was The Libertines working on new material, but also that he had recorded a song from his debut album, The Puta Madres, over there. , as well as revealing that Barat was producing music with The Prodigy's touring guitarist, Olly Burden.

The singer also said he has shown great talent as an interior designer throughout the property.

"The rooms in the hotel are right there, some with the original decor, and some with my influence that they're trying to mitigate," Doherty said. NME. "They prefer my influence to the original decor, but I think they want to go even further. Like, beyond Pete Doherty. This will never become hipster, because you have this smell that the sea releases twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is a regeneration directed by art. We are part of it because it was affordable. You know, we will never open a hotel in Old Street or anything like that.

He added: "We had something in Margate that we would have had in London 40 years ago or something. It is an incredible building. We have all kinds of extraordinary things going on there. We have ghosts, underground tunnels, metal escapements, building permits, school bags that we do not even know, but that are spinning. "

Doherty also spoke to NME about the 40-year-old's mortality, as well as the haunting headlines and his "fascination with the mess and jail," which he thinks Albion means to the time of Brexit and the twists that the new Libertines album takes – with 'freestyle' rap.

He was also hospitalized for an injury caused by an infected hedgehog and a rare copy of his Queens Park Rangers fanzine which he edited while he was a child searched.