Dirty Pretty Things - Carl Barat interview

[bitterman188]

Hahahaha aww Carl. Someone's a bit smashed.

[Forestgravy]

You can tell he suffers from depression due to the amount of introspection he shows, how he doesn't look at the interviewer much, and he's funny as fuck, which is often a sign in a weird way. sounds like an inaccurate generalisation but it's true in most depressives I've met, they use humour as a form of escapism.

Doherty on the other hand is a junkie prat with a good heart deep beneath the twattish surface.

I'm pissed btw BOOOOOZE

[poppyrose01]

he's cool :)

[laracakes]

fucking legend!

[FreewheelinLibertine]

The end part about the finding purpose was nice. How impolite for the guy to go oookaaayyyy after he jokes he wouldn't mind being a fucked up oak tree I think he said?

[yolo1998]

''I wouldn't mind being an enormous eff off oak tree''

Best.line.ever. - was pretty close to asking him to write it for me in his autobio during his book signing but was advised against it in the end..haha

[bevyk777]

He's got such a dry, funny sense of humor.... which is the best kind to have... not an in your face trying to make you laugh - but actually witty. If you aren't careful, you'll miss something really funny he says. I'm thinking that is why we (the posters here) are all here - WE GET IT!!! Yea for us because a dry sense of humor goes right over most peoples heads...they'll never get it even if you spell it out to them! SMILES folks!

[kaliyuta]

@bevyk777 the interviewer doesn't even get it.

[annaeveliina]

DAMN <3

[thrillseeker9909]

I love where he says "sounds a bit gay"

[riverofbreaklights]

"I love chivalry and elegance and class, but having said that, I'm a lazy bastard with ADD, so...it's not a good combination. Um...yeah."

[shazamm3]

Haaa I like his little "blaze of glory" motion and his expression when he says "a big fuck-off oak tree" the third time... cute :)

[soleilisthesun]

I LOVE HIM!!! I also really like Pete Doherty but Carl is IT for me haha

[brownsound07]

Who does he say his real life hero might be, the one that died?

[thebestpathetic]

@brownsound07 Joe Strummer

[HawaiianTigerlily]

Skint: thank u for the info. Well, north england itself has so many different accents. Liverpudlians sound nothing like mancs and etc. - and they're not that far geographically from eachother at least by USA standards. But I do love that Basingstoke accent. He sounds cool.

[MsLilianDM]

hello, it was nice talking to you last night :)

[HawaiianTigerlily]

I love his accent. What part of England is he from? Sounds nothing like Manchester or London. Is he from maybe North England or something?

[skint0n0minted]

@HawaiianTigerlily manchester is north england! hes from Basingstoke, but he was a gypsy as a child so he travelled a lot.

[Johnem0]

@HawaiianTigerlily he's from Basingstoke

[Lamias06]

Love youuuuu

[billtambo]

I actually love it at 2:15 when he repeats himself and he almost scoffs a giggle! Such a wonderful man!

[Marqene]

I just takes a lil time to be able to understand what he says, and I mean lil, otherwise it means you dont speak english

[Gia0603]

He sounds like his nose is always blocked. LOL

Carl is amazing.

[FromEldorado]

Could sb write what he's speaking? I don't understand anything. by the way, I love music, songs he's singing. =)) That music is best

[illnevershoutnever]

i really don't understand anything but i fucking love his voice!

[Bretwantsfun]

he makes me laugh, mind you petes just as funny. you can see why they used to 'get along' so well. :D

[likethesummerfalls]

oh, he's SO nice it kills me. he's really amazing!

[cornerbox]

carl reminds me of gene wilder...haha

[BombardWithMuffins]

Well, I´m german, I also don´t understand him when he sings. :D

[dannyboy6907]

lol, the one he said sounded a bit gay was what i had in my head

[JasySykes93]

Carl's mumbling. XD

I never understand ANYTHING he says. :D

But that's so cute <3

Carl is amazing.

[rakusfrakus]

Does anyone know where the full interview is? Without all of the cuts and what not?

[xHakuShirox]

Wish I did. I'd like to see it.

[xHakuShirox]

Pretty sure he said an enormous fuck-off oak tree.

[soylattelovesjack]

LOL funniest interview ever!!!

[ClashCityRockers0]

Carl Barât speaks a lot like John Mellor... how coincidential!

RIP Joe

[goldielibertines]

I love Carl so much. At the Leeds Fest, the security people would only let a few people into the signing tent (we were at the very front of the queue too, and people pushed in front :( ) so he leaned out of the tent afterwards to sign for about 15 minutes, even though security were trying to stop him doing it. He's such a lovely person and a brilliant musician :).

"A big fuck off oak tree."

"What...?"

"Yep...a big fuck off oak tree."

I love you!

[samuelslaughter]

i love the way that twat of an interviewer asks him all these shitty little stupid questions, and when he gives a stupid answer at the end, hes like ookkk. in fact i dont love it, i fucking hate it

[kissesbritishboys]

OMFG!!!!! CARL WAS IN AUSTIN???? I FUCKING LIVE SIX HOURS AWAY AND I MISSED IT! damn damn damn. good interview though. :)

[Jullaan89]

hahahahah "saving the day an saving...ehr..everything.."

"family full of love, singing, sounds a bit gay but...." hahahah he is a funny guy that carl <3 love him xx

[ItMustBeKate]

An enormous fuck off oak tree? What the Hell you on about Carlos? :P

[RamboMak]

he sounds so clever yet so down to earth-such a dude!

[roflcoppterlol]

yeh, i dont know much about joe strumer and there was a show on about him bout a week ago, and i thought 'hmmmm he reminds of me carl barat'

[kslatt11491]

Gives a good interview :)

[dahlia6]

Funny Joe Strummer could have been his real life hero...he reminds me of Joe Strummer quite a bit-he resembles and sounds like a young Joe Strummer.

[Kovalirenna]

I love this guy...)

[BackRockDelta]

I met him at one of the DPT gigs, couldn't meet a nicer, friendlier person

[EireDahlia]

this is hilarious. love him.

[imreallynotemo]

This is like his song Gin and Milk

[madferit87]

"The human being as a person shouldn't turn into pedophiles and violent psychopaths, and I think this is a perversion of people losing their true cause." How very true

[MrsBorucBabii]

how can u no understand im fae glasgow i understood every word!

mon carl barat!

mon thhe VEGAS!

[SongforAberdeen21]

love him

[rjbrose]

met him yesterday at reading- he gave me a peck on the cheek!!!!! what a delightful moment that was *swoon*

[LipsLikeSugar78]

"Sounds a bit gay..." HAHA!!!! :) Love him. So beautiful & hilariously funny.

[gbemvenuto]

i wish i understand a word :S

[chloebabydoll]

He's easy to understand in this vid. Real life though, no idea lol everytime i've met him i haven't understood a word! just nodded along and hoped i wasn't agreeing to something terrible lol

"is that bad?" aww, bless him lol

[gavinsmith914]

yea doherty is the same way. i wonder if they every understood a word eachother said. mabie that is the true reason they split haha

[thrh66]

well done eberybody who understood spoken english. Give yourselves a pat on the back.

[MyFairyKing]

yeah... i'm surprised people couldn't understand him though. it's really easy for me to understand. hm.

[willianrm1]

Yeah, this interview it's easy, try he spoken on culture... He mumbles and mumbles, but it's not impossible to undertand him though.

[XIndieCinDy]

He gets cuter everytime I look at him.

Hes awesome.

[louieconway]

i love him lol

he always sounds like he has a cold

x

[howarddd92]

he's really intelligent

[meowmix242]

love him.

[CalliThaala]

Someone asked what he's saying so I wrote it down.

[XPUMPUPTHEJAMX]

fuck off oaktree!!

paaa haaa!!

[SunInYourEyes]

doesn't he say "a bicg fuck of oak tree"?

[XPUMPUPTHEJAMX]

yeh thts wat i ment lol :D:D

[ZoeMoi]

I can't stop watching... Just love the way he speaks.. And yeah, I understood everything...

[kukkimonsta12]

bless is little heart, wanna give him a big bear hug, and cook him a potato pie with lotsa beans.

fuck off oak tree, wat a legend!!

love this chap

xx

[coldarcady]

your comment is so cute !!!! =)

[LostYourFaith]

carlos barat:

sounds a bit righteous dunnit?

i <3 u =]

[freddiep123]

i met him tonight waht a nice bloke

[xMidnightSunshine]

Brilliant.

Ahh, i love him - so much charisma and talent... and his accent is fab aswell!

Cant wait till i see DPT live :D

[robyn15123]

i dont think its hard to understand him, apart from when he mumbles, but i guess thats because he is partially deaf

hes soo gorgeous :)

[Golub812]

Is he really partially deaf ?how can he be ?

I mean I kind of thought that after the operation he recuperated but I don't really now anything about medicine

[boredfreak5]

@Golub812 he had a tumor removed from behind his ear, the operation didn't go well after all and he can't hear much from one ear.

[sleezygalz286]

I can understand him perfectly!

[ladylusciouz]

im english yet 60% of the time i have no idea what hes saying

[RubyShoesBlues]

Best Bit:

"I wouldn't mind being an enormous fuck off oak tree."

"An electric what?"

"I said a big fuck off oak tree."

"Okaaaaay."

Yeah, I didn't really get it either...Still. Lightning bolts!

[RubyShoesBlues]

Best Bit:

"I wouldn't mind being an enormous fuck off oak tree."

"An electric what?"

"I said a big fuck off oak tree."

"Okaaaaay."

Yeah, I didn't really get it either...Still. Lightning bolts!

[robyn1591]

hes got a lovely voice & accent

i love that little thing he does in the blaze of glory bit [00:46]

hes very charismatic isn't he ;D

[u05rw4]

he means the insect, shitface

[alexthemod1]

he sed "not the american kind"...he does mumble tho...

[CalliThaala]

A lot of people seem to have trouble understanding him (he does mumble a fair bit) so when someone asked for what he's saying, I posted it.

If you don't care what he's saying, you don't have to watch the interview or read those comments.

[MrsTambourine]

he said: I'm a lazy bastard with add' do you know what add means?

[CalliThaala]

A D D is Attention Deficit Disorder.

[Kerrypandabearie177]

I really do love him (:

xx

[rage2626]

Can anyone write dowm what he's saying plz =D?

[CalliThaala]

"I love chivalry and elegance and class, but having said that, I'm a lazy bastard with ADD, so it's not a good combination. Um, yeah."

"Tragically, I have no real life heroes. It might've been Joe Strummer, but as soon as I found out about him, he died."

"I most dislike wasps - and I don't mean American WASPs - I most dislike wasps and people who embody similar tendencies. Nasty little bastards.

"Probably teleporting or shooting bolts from my finger. Pshew! Pshew!"

[CalliThaala]

"Well, I've got two honest answers. One of them is in a blaze of glory, uh, fighting for a cause and winning and saving the day and saving, erm, everything. And the other one is in an armchair surrounded by my family full of love, you know, a night by fire, everyone singing - sounds a bit gay, but, yeah, one of those two I don't know which one. Probably uh, probably the former right now."

[CalliThaala]

"I think I'm a bit of a coward. Oh, I'll fight to the death for a cause and I've spent my whole life looking for one, but, uh, when it comes to um, well, when it comes to telling someone that my food's cold... Yeah, any confrontation, I can't bear confrontation. But at the same time, I'm still ready to give my all to something."

[CalliThaala]

"I think that a lot of people... I think that everyone is born with a purpose and uh a lot of people become frustrated and twisted. You know, the human being as a person shouldn't turn into pedophiles and violent psychopaths and I think this is a perversion of people losing their true cause."

[CalliThaala]

"My purpose must be to find something, some kind of comfort in the void, and uh, and show other people the way to that, I guess. I mean, sounds a bit righteous, but if I do have a purpose then that's it."

"I wouldn't mind being an enormous fuck off oak tree. I said, an enormous fuck off oak tree. Is that good? A big fuck off oak tree. Is that bad? D' you want something..."

[mylittletreehouse]

Wow... You are an angel. Thanks a lot! xxoo

[CalliThaala]

You're welcome! ^_^

[lesliechoung]

Thank you it's very kind, because i'm French and Carl has a fucking accent... THANKS !!!

[CalliThaala]

Oh, he definitely does! It's taken ages for me to learn to hear what he's saying (I'm American, so it's a rather foreign accent to me too), and even so, I still have to pause and go back a lot to decipher his mumblings. I'm glad it's helping people! ^_^

[ughaghugh]

thank you so much, there were some parts which I had trouble fiddling out, muchas muchas gracias! :)

[losvegetales]

thank u very much indeed.. how can u understand him? lol

[CalliThaala]

Practice, I guess? *L*

You're welcome!

[sleezygalz286]

"a big fuck off oak tree" mmmn little bit of eddie izzard there!

[marchini87]

you can barely him talk! no 1 rivals the dpt, when's the next album?

[tutuldok]

"I most dislike wasps--and I don't mean American WASPs--I most dislike wasps and people who embody similar tendencies. Nasty little bastards."

[tammycuteness]

"...Sounds a bit gay, but, yeah..."

[em19691]

carl always sounds like he has a cold...love it

[RubyShoesBlues]

He sounds like he has a cold...Still sexy of course :)

[starstarr]

it sounds like he has a bit of a stutter...love him

[godsavegdmcrgheyheds]

is this post libs breakup?

[tutuldok]

Yeah. I think.

[godsavegdmcrgheyheds]

cheers mate

[xxMarz456xx]

"Tragically, I have no real life heroes..well it might have been Joe Strummer but as soon as I found out about him..he died"

And,

Q)"Any gift you could possibly have to power you, what would it be?"

A)Probably teleporting, or shooting bolts with my finger **does zappy bolt shooting thing*

LOVE IT

[BrianLuvsYou]

"I hate wasps, not the actually insect but people with similar tendencies. Nasty little bastards." <3 Carl Barat

[DellaDomenica]

I love how he said bastards. :)

[Punkybusiness]

"And winning... Um.. Everything!"

Rebel withput a cause

[JoeyyyFunk]

haha he sounds a bit pissed

[mrkristoff]

mumbling bloody fool

[oOoOAnna]

love carl and his mumblings! the interviewer does sum it up at the end tho "Okaaaaaaaaay!" lol "big fuck off oak tree!"

[hnikole21]

i lvoe his face when he says... blaze of glory

[ohhowswish]

I love the way Carl always sounds like he has a cold ^^

He's just too adorable, he really is. Love him to bits.

"a big fuck-off oak tree". classic.

[verfdoos]

carl...ill be your enormous fuck off oak tree!

[hnikole21]

this video makes me want to f*** carl lol.. when was this

[xxbillyspleenxx]

me toooooo ! :D

[hnikole21]

haha seriously... hes soo hott

[xxbillyspleenxx]

sex on legs :D

[yakkitori]

he really, really is.

[vintagecherry89]

such a cute face when he says "an enormous fuck-off oak tree" ^^

[silverswan75]

He's cool.

[waterloo2anyhere]

ledge

[gemmab2007]

I think he's wonderful! So tallented and deep, quite poetic... and above all absolutely gorgeous :) x

[ArcticMonkeysFan15]

so cute...'shooting bolts through my finger...tooooh!'

[PrincessKaty]

aw seriously, he really is just lovely...

[Soovez]

i didnt know british ppl used 'gay' like americans do.

[frihed]

gosh how i love that boy!!! he's so fucking drgged up i doubt he could even stand.... ahahah and i second every comment about the oak tree!

axx

[DavieC87]

What a legend. His voice makes me laugh though, he always sounds like he's bunged up with a cold. Although DPT are a cool band they don't compare to The Libertines. Pete and Carl need to get back together, but sadly I don't see it happening soon and even if they do I'm not sure it will be the same as it was.

"Arcadias dream has fallen through, but the Albion sails on course".

[DASLIBERTINE]

'an enormous fuck off oak tree' he just means an enormous fucking oak tree. if you gave your wife a diamond ring,and it was somewhat large that would be 'an enormous fuck off diamond'

[christianamg]

ahh. thanks. makes sense, in "A'rebours" there's a line about "the fuck off big debt I owe to sorrow"...always wondered what that one meant!

[mindthehose]

Dear Carl,

Interviews like these make me want to put you in my pocket so I can take you out and cuddle you when I'm feeling down, because I'd feel safe surrounded with the smoke of your cigarretes, the incomprehensible wit of your non-sequiturs and the rubbishness of your verb.

Love you always and forever,

Miggles

[em19691]

an enormous fuck off oak tree...oh how i love him

[liveline]

hahaha the interviewer summed it up for all of us.

"...oooooookkkaaayyyy.........­......"

[caroline111]

fuck off oak tree, what does that mean

[fairystarz12]

"an enormous fuck off oak tree"

oh carlos, be my wife.

[tutuldok]

Did he just say "an enormous fuck off oak tree"? And if he did, what the hell is an enormous fuck off oak tree?

[WeWereSoPretty]

^A fucking big big Oak tree!

This just sums up why I love Carl. What a dork, but what a total ledge.

[jennifer81]

Oh Carl.

It worries me that I understand what he's saying.

[CiaraJoanne1990]

Don't worry I understand him too

[musicluver92]

I love how I can ive practiced ahahah