“We really feel very lucky to have identified/cherished and labored with him,” Pete Doherty-fronted group says of former band mate
Patrick Walden, guitarist within the Pete Doherty-fronted band Babyshambles, has died on the age of 46.
The British band introduced Walden’s dying Friday on social media; no reason behind dying was supplied.
“It’s with deep remorse and disappointment that we share the information of Patrick Walden’s dying,” Babyshambles — Doherty, Mick Whitnall, Drew McConnell and Adam Ficek — stated in a joint assertion. “We really feel very lucky to have identified/cherished and labored with him and we kindly ask for respect and privateness throughout these tough occasions.”
After Doherty was booted from the Libertines (twice) within the early 2000s because of substance abuse points, the guitarist fashioned Babyshambles as his musical outlet, and enlisted Walden as lead guitarist.
Along with his guitar work on tracks like “Killamangiro” and “Albion,” Walden additionally served as co-writer on three tracks on the band’s 2005 album Down in Albion, together with their hit single “Fuck Eternally.”
Nevertheless, Walden’s tenure with Babyshambles was short-lived, as drug points and a legal case for assaulting his then-girlfriend (all prices have been finally dismissed) led to his departure in 2005; he was changed by Whitnall on the group’s second album, 2007’s Shotter’s Nation.
Whereas Walden remained within the Babyshambles orbit and sometimes carried out together with his former band mates, he by no means formally rejoined the group, which simply this previous March reunited at a Doherty solo gig. Throughout that present, Doherty teased Babyshambles’ return later this yr.
