Supla: meeting with Pete Doherty yielded unreleased song: “a punk to the Libertines” [EXCLUSIVA]

the meeting between supple and Pete Dohertyof The Libertines, it happened kind of fast, kind of by chance, but it left as a result a song that fans will be able to know, eventually. The one who counts is Supla himself, who narrated to the Rolling Stone Brazildetails of the tour from São Paulo, scheduled after a meeting at the Lollapaloozawhere Doherty performed on Sunday (27).

“I didn’t know him, I met him at Lolla there”, remembers Supla, “then he said ‘what a great style, you look great‘ [‘que estilo bacana, você está ótimo’], and I said “I’ve always been an admirer of your style too”. Then we exchanged ideas and agreed to meet the next day.”

The two musicians then arranged to meet on Monday (28), the day after the concert by The Libertines at the Lollapalooza. supple account that Doherty had the time calculated, his return flight would be in a few hours.

Ipiranga with Sao Joao
“I went to meet him in a nice place close to home, a very classic place Sao Pauloto have a beer, there in Ipiranga and São João, in Brahma Barright, that has a history”, says the Brazilian. At that moment the duo took the picture on the sign of the classic São Paulo corner.

“We left there and came to my house, to make a sound. I called the João [Suplicy, irmão de Supla e parceiro no Brothers of Brazil]was my girlfriend too [a DJ Nathalia Mastrobiso]. Then his manager also came later. There the Carl [Barât, do The Libertines] ended up not coming, and we made a sound here. We made a song”, says supple.

“I told him ‘look, instead of just blablabla, which is great too, let’s make a song'”, he says. “The track started from something in a kind of brothers and Midle Pete, really, you know? Got a stylish punk libertines [risos]”.

The meeting ended quickly. Before 10pm, Pete already left the house supple. “He had to catch a flight, so they left early. They went to the hotel to get their bags and leave.” “He was really nice, very nice people. Super interested in music and stuff. I have a studio here, so we sent him a sound and stuff. It was pretty cool, see?”

Partnership and launch
Despite the meeting, the partnership with international names is nothing new for supple. “The Brothers [of Brazil, sua banda]already had a track recorded with Hugh Corwellof The Stranglers – track ‘bowling‘, I love this song”.

Asked about the name or release date of the track with Doherty, supple conversation: “I don’t know if she’s going to leave or not, but she’s here and that’s it”.