Pete Doherty, of The Libertines fame, has revealed that his band's love affair with London is something they really value. 

The rocker told Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music that it was great to feel as though they belonged to a place and it was especially fulfilling to be in the city because they "wanted to be part of a community."

He said: "We used to spend a lot of time walking around and climbed into Embankment gardens a lot, to the point when security... they'd turn a blind eye in the end because we'd always get into the little amphitheatre bit, the little stage, where we'd, y'know, take our guitars."

"We wrote a lot of songs and practise a lot of them early songs; 'You're My Waterloo' and 'Music When The Lights Go Out'. Sort of grand, epic ballads as we thought they were. We'd belt them out to the dawn, with just a couple of pigeons coughing along."

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Watch the band's music video for 'Gunga Din' here: