Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall Book

First you fail. After four years of gigs no-one attends songs no-one hears perfected haircuts no-one sees late 80s Camden - where Shane McGowan is lord of the manor pubs close in the afternoons and dance music rules - is no place for a cultured singer songwriter like Luke Haines to be. One too many heavy afternoons on the red wine and you hit the bottom. The only solution is to record a demo in your flat form a new band and think of a pretentious name...From heady tours in the early days with Suede through Cool Britannia success in France and failure in America to the break up of the Auteurs the death of Britpop and the birth of new projects Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder Luke Haines has the inside line.In acerbic hilarious prose he tells of gigs in France with Pulp and the Boo Radleys of getting on with New Order but not with Elastica gives a verdict on the Blur/Oasis scrap and explains how it felt to lose the 1993 Mercury Music Prize by one vote (and spend the early hours of the next day in A&E). Plus the fights the sackings the press and the drugs..." Bad Vibes" is a scathing blackly comic memoir from a legendary figure in the music world of the 90's who is variously heralded as the pioneer the godfather or the forgotten man of Britpop. ;Read More