He is an English musician. He was the co-front-man of The Libertines
(together with Pete Doherty), which dissolved at the beginning of 2005
shortly after Doherty was asked to leave the band in 2004. In autumn of
2005 he formed Dirty Pretty Things together with Gary Powell (former
drummer for the Libertines), Anthony Rossomando (Doherty's replacement
in the Libertines), and Didz Hammond (former bassist for the
Reading-based Cooper Temple Clause).