Book description
In Post Everything, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way
to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider.
The 'avant-garde Arthur Scargill' calls upon the nation's pop stars to
down tools and go on strike. We learn the story of Haines'
post-Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder (Chas and Dave with a
chanteuse), we meet a talking cat, two dead rappers (Notorious B. I.G.
and Tupac Shakur), and a mystical England football manager. Haines
even finds time to write a musical for the National Theatre.
Blisteringly funny and searingly scathing, Post Everything
may quite possibly be the first and only truly surreal comic rock
memoir. It even contains a killer recipe for scrambled eggs.
Luke Haines learned guitar in the red light district of Portsmouth
and subsequently formally studied music at the London College of Music.
His band The Auteurs missed out on the 1992 Mercury Music Prize by one
vote. His first memoir,
Bad Vibes
, was published in 2009.
