Pete Doherty shares tribute to late Babyshambles bandmate Patrick Walden: “You brought joy to so many fucking people mate”

Pete Doherty has shared a tribute to the late Babyshambles guitarist Patrick Walden.

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Walden recently died aged 46, with the news shared by Babyshambles on June 20. No cause of death was given.

Now, Doherty has shared his own moving tribute to his former bandmate in a post on social media, beginning: “Used to call me Petey! huh!?”. He went on to call Walden’s death a “shot in the heart”, adding: “You brought joy to so many fucking people mate.”

“I was in Mexico lately, and a kid in the street had a tattoo of you and a shambles french dog on his chest, so I got the French dog tattooed the next day,” he recalled, saying that he “meant to call” Walden to tell him and that he was “telling you now Pat mate…”

Doherty continued, writing that “my times in the galleys with you were exquisite, I remember the night we spent up 2 or 3 writing ‘Pipedown’, one time we were both crashing on the floor at Rooz studios.”

He then concluded that “To know you were loved and will be missed. To all your friends and family, be at rest in peace, Pat”. Doherty signed off his tribute with “love from your pal Petey”. Read the tribute below:

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Walden joined Babyshambles – formed by Pete Doherty while banned from playing with the Libertines – in 2004. He would co-write many of the songs from their debut album ‘Down in Album’, and would also work as a session musician for the likes of James Blunt.

He left the band after being charged with assaulting his girlfriend in their North London home. He was later cleared of the charge. Though Walden played with Babyshambles on and off between 2007 and 2009, he never officially rejoined.

Babyshambles recently reunited in March, where Doherty, bassist Drew McConnell and drummer Adam Ficek rejoined on stage for versions of ‘Albion’ and ‘Fuck Forever’.

Doherty has since teased that a Babyshambles reunion is coming at some point this year, although details remain vague.

“It is on the cards,” he told NME. “We will get back together and get in a room with the instruments and play through the old songs, then get on stage and do it. But it’s the ‘who’ and the ‘when’ that needs to be worked out. I think we’ll just keep that one on the horizon and deal with that one next year.”

Asked if he wanted to make another Babyshambles record, he replied: “I’ve got no idea. I wrote a new song the other day that I think would really work as a ‘Shambles song. Who knows? It’s a long way off yet. It’s going to be next Autumn, so we’ll see.”

In other news, Pete Doherty has said “something has sort of shifted in me” in his new lifestyle.

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