Indie rocker Pete Doherty has revealed The Libertines' new hotel on the Kent coast could be open in July.

Doherty and bandmate Carl Barat bought the hotel and have renovated it since 2016.

It has 10 rooms spread across five storeys and last year he revealed it would be called The Albion Rooms.

A recording studio has been built while a bar is also in the works, as Doherty revealed in an interview with NME.

“Carl was a very shrewd maneuverer getting this gaff,” he said.

“Before I saw it he said, ‘Pete, I’ve bought this muscular place on the seafront’. I thought ‘I’ll have some of that’.”

“The hotel doors, in theory, are open,” he continued. “If you want to book a room then we can discuss that. We’ve had people turn up. The other day I was on my own, these people turned up and said they had nowhere to go for the night, we came to some arrangement, they spent the night there.

"They were very clean and I think I handled the whole thing quite well.

“I showed my calibre and I think Carl can rethink his whole policy of me not being able to live on the premises.”

Doherty had also suggested the hotel would take bookings in time for the summer.

He added: "I’d say July would be a very exaggerated estimate of when it’s all going to be available so you can go online go ‘BANG’ and get somewhere to stay at the Albion Rooms.

"If you turn up with nowhere to go with cash on the hip then you’re welcome – within reason.

“You get people going past and shouting abuse, but you get that everywhere don’t you? Most of the time it’s fairly civilised Arcadian types.”

Earlier this week it was revealed the singer had been hospitalised after being injured by a hedgehog.

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