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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Imogen Tilden

My festival: Gary Powell, the Libertines


[Raucous laughter. Gary has drunk about a pint of whisky and coke]. What have I been doing today? Oooh, today was awesome. I was in the hospitality area, and the last show we did was in Paris there was a Vogue journalist there and she saw us and started talking to us in the hospitality area today and grabbed a photographer who was doing photographs for Vogue and she was like "can I take some pictures of you?" and so I said, ok, I guess - I can't say no. [More howls of laughter.] And so he took a few pictures, and they had a few models, and so he took some pictures of the models, and then the head guy from All Saints had some clothes, so they had me put on some clothes. We ended up with pictures of me snogging this girl in the hospitality area. IT WAS GREAT! It's the most action I've had in ages. I loved it!

We're not playing this festival. Me, Carl, and Anthony from the band, we were possibly going to do something impromptu, kind of guerilla style - after all, we started the whole guerilla thing anyway, but Karl's had to go back to London because his girlfriend's ill. So tomorrow I will be playing. I will be playing the fool. If there was an NME award for the fool I would get that. Oh yes.

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