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New Year Fireworks, Doherty Gig, Travolta: London Weekend

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Pete Doherty is showing a newly sensitive side in acoustic songs he’s playing in Brixton.

Doherty is trying to get the headlines to focus on his music rather than his years of drug abuse and relationships with Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse. His new material is quiet, reflective and far from the punky thrash of his rock bands Libertines and Babyshambles.