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Post Everything
Outsider Rock and Roll 1997 – 2005
- Author: Luke Haines
- Category: Non-fiction Pop Culture
- Publisher: William Heinemann (UK)
- Pub date: 7 July 2011
About Post Everything
Britain in the late 1990’s. Post Britpop. The dawn of the rock and roll apocalypse. If it feels like there’s nothing new under the sun, that’s because there is nothing new under the sun. After the death of Kurt Cobain popular culture entered, and is still in, its final phase: Post Everything.
POST EVERYTHING: Outsider Rock and Roll 1997 – 2005 is the sequel to the hugely acclaimed BAD VIBES: Britpop and My Part In Its Downfall, It is a story of survival in the music industry, and the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider.
POST EVERYTHING begins with Luke Haines, the ‘avant garde Arthur Scargill’, calling upon the nation’s pop stars to down tools and go on strike. We get the story of Haines’ post Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder (Chas and Dave with a chanteuse) then skipping down the POST EVERYTHING yellow brick road, barely pausing to put in a brief appearance on Top Of the Pops. We meet a talking cat, two dead rappers (Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur) the mystical England football manager Glenn Hoddle, and a shady transgender German Professor Dr. Karl Wilkie – exponent of a dangerous and radical ‘Beatles denial’ cult, and author of the THEOROM OF THE MORON, the most important book about rock that you’ve never heard of.
POST EVERYTHING may quite possibly be the first and only truly surreal comic rock memoir. It even contains a killer recipe for scrambled eggs.
About the Author
Luke Haines was born in 1967 in Walton-on Thames. After a brief spell with Creation band The Servants in the late 1980s, he formed the Auteurs. Their debut album, New Wave, was a major influence on what was laughably called Britpop. It was also short-listed for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. Since then Luke has released many critically-acclaimed albums as the Auteurs, under his own name and with the popular Black Box Recorder group. He has even released a revered concept album about ‘70s terrorism called Baader Meinhof. Surprisingly, he has appeared on BBC1’s Top Of The Pops.