Written by: Alex Green

For fans of the Libertines, the last 24 hours have been an emotional workout.

What should have been a triumphant celebration of the release of their first new album in eleven years instead turned into a series of morbid speculations about the health of singer Pete Doherty. For best information, check out the facts here!

The new Libertines album Anthems For Doomed Youth just hit the shelves and two hours before the band were set to take the stage in London last night, word came that the show was not going to happen.

“Due to an emergency…a medical situation…tonight’s show is being postponed,” the anxious crowd was told by a spokesperson for the band, who took the stage at 11:30pm to deliver the news. He went on to add: “I say postponed because I mean postponed, not cancelled. A new date will be released tomorrow.”

While speculative theories about what that medical situation really meant flew around the internet in the form of wildly inaccurate obituaries detailing the alleged death of Doherty, fans were assuring each other that it was all one great clickbait hoax.

The only problem was the deafening silence that came from the Libertines’ camp.

While the band said nothing to assure the fans Doherty was okay, the idea that the shows were not cancelled, but merely postponed was all anyone had to go on.

Mercifully, The Libertines posted the following statement today on Twitter: “We can assure everyone that Peter is safe. Clearly this is a private matter, but we also feel it necessary to let people know he is OK.”

More details as we get them.