Carl Barat, who performs in The Libertines alongside Pete Doherty, said he was “so stressed” while running the Albion Rooms in Margate, Kent that he became like John Cleese’s character from Fawlty Towers
The Libertines star Carl Barat has revealed he has turned into “Basil Fawlty” in his older age.
The rocker has been running a hotel in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, but says he has had to stop the gig because it was driving him potty.
He claimed he turned into John Cleese’s character Basil Fawlty from classic comedy Fawlty Towers as he was so “stressed” while operating it.
The band bought the getaway – the Albion Rooms – in the classic seaside town, but said it was too much work and now they are using it to help new bands launch a ”community project”.
Barat said he was turning into a stresshead trying to run it as a Bed and Breakfast and had to give it up before he lost his head completely.
He revealed: “We were running the hotel. And we got so wrapped up in it. I woke up one day and realised I was like Basil Fawlty. I was so stressed all the time.”
They had to take a step back and now have turned it into something to fuel their ultimate love – music.
It is now a recording studio, where they made their most recent album, All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade, and where they now give studio time to up-and-coming bands.
He added: They can then afford to go and do demos. It’s community building.”
But Barat and his co-frontman Pete Doherty say they aren’t sure what they would change about their own music journey if they were to get a time machine to take them back to when they were a band first starting out.
Barat continued: “No I wouldn’t change anything. Apart from averting catastrophes.
“If the Libertines could have avoided implosion, would they have achieved global rock dominance? I mean, I don’t think we know what to do with dominance.”
And Doherty mused the same question about what he would do with a time machine, adding: “My first thought is to try and get involved in some historical events like, I don’t know, contact the New York police on the morning of 9/11 or something.
“That’s not funny, is it? But something like that, I don’t know. Or just place some bets on certain horses and cup finals, proper Back to the Future vibes. Nothing really in my own life.”
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