He may have been papped swigging from a wine bottle in the early hours of yesterday morning (March 15), but Pete Doherty will be hard at work before you know it.

Babyshambles have just announced their first arena tour - that's right, Pete and co will be be playing, like, proper stadiums and everything!

The tour kicks off iat the Manchester at MEN on November 22 and wraps up at the Glasgow SECC on December 1.

The band recently signed a long-term deal with Parlophone and will release a second album in the autumn.

Here are those dates in full:

November 22, Manchester MEN Arena, 0870 190 8000 / 0161 832 1111
Novemeber 23, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, 0870 707 8000
Novemeber 25, Brighton Centre, 0870 900 9100
November 26, Bournemouth BIC, 0870 111 3000
November 27, Wembley Arena, 0870 060 0870 / 020 7287 0932
November 28, Birmingham NIA, 0870 909 4144
November 30, Nottingham Arena, 0870 121 0123
December 1, Glasgow SECC, 0870 333 1123

Tickets go on sale at 9am, Thursday, March 22, priced 23 - and 25 in London. You can buy tickets on line at www.gigsandtours.com.

'SLJ'