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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book I read in 2009. It was bought for me as a Christmas present and to be honest, having no real interest in the Britpop explosion in the mid-90s, I might never have read it. Luke Haines was the singer/songwriter in a band at that time, and Bad Vibes is a collection of the storie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56827879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Luke Haines is an under-appreciated genius; The Auteurs were one of the coolest bands of the 90s, and I like to think by association they made me a little cooler at college, and Baader Meinhof - terrorist chic anyone?<br/><br/>Haines covers the lives of both these bands and just touches on the beg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46983028">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[First, you fail. After four years of gigs no one attends, songs no one hears, perfect haircuts no one sees ...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. Luke Haines, after all, has never been to a rave. One near-death experience later and there's nothing left to lose. 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. Forget Blur/Oasis and Cool Britannia, none of that actually happened. This is the real story of English Rock in the nineties. 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. 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.  Plus the sackings, the surreal self-medicating procedures, how to be a bad loser at the 1993 Mercury Music Prize, and what it's like to be attacked on stage by a vicious, drunken dwarf. Bad Vibes is a pitch-black comic memoir from a legendary figure in the music world, variously described as pioneer, godfather or forgotten man of Britpop.]]>
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