![]() ![]() In scathing and worryingly funny prose, Haines presents the evidence: Pulp, Elastica, Iggy Pop, Kurt Cobain (and his hatred of mushrooms), and the dark studio magic of Steve Albini. Luke Haines has the inside line: from the teenage rampage of the early tours with Suede, mainstream success in France and failure in America, to the break-up of The Auteurs, the death of Britpop (the idiot runt-child of all music genres) and the birth of strange and frightening new projects Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder. This is the real story of English Rock in the nineties. Forget Blur/Oasis and Cool Britannia, none of that actually happened. With just a ruined piano and a couple of cardboard boxes, you record a demo in your flat, form a new band and give it a pretentious name. One near-death experience later and there's nothing left to lose. ![]() Luke Haines, after all, has never been to a rave. London in the late eighties - where the pubs still close in the afternoon and dance music rules - is no place for an avant-garde songwriter like Luke Haines to be. After four years of gigs no one attends, songs no one hears, perfect haircuts no one sees. One near-death experience later and there's nothing First, you fail. ![]()
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