Babyshambles is reuniting for a U.K. tour after 11 years and countless teases of getting the band back together. They’ve recently announced details of the tour, with Pete Doherty calling it “unfinished business” with his bandmates.

For Doherty, who is also known as co-vocalist of The Libertines, this reunion is “a no brainer for me, a real desire to play some of them old tunes and have a little shindig.” However, while speaking with NME recently, he revealed that the catalyst of getting back together was the fact that he and guitarist Mick Whitnall had been sober for several years.

“There was always talk about it; there was always a desire to play those songs again,” he said, “but the centrifugal point of it was addiction really, and the danger that me and Mick would be an unhealthy infl

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