The onetime savior of punk saw his life fall to shambles after a much-publicized split from supermodel Kate Moss and last year’s month-long incarceration. But Peter Doherty is back with this month’s Grace/Wasteland, a debut solo album destined to catapult the English bad-boy onto the charts. Here, the hard-living, chain-smoking poet of rock lists life’s major drags.

My top 10 irritants:

1. All-seater stadiums.

2. Speed bumps.

3. Casual racism.

4. Naughty cats.

5. Chairs with wobbly legs.

6. Broken phones.

7. Smoking bans.

8. Broken banjo strings.

9. Bent hat rims.

10. An increasingly trinket-barren world.

Photo by Keven Westenberg.