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  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099537496
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99
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Post Everything

Outsider Rock and Roll




The sequel to 2009's Bad Vibes, in which Luke Haines reveals what happened next...

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.

  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099537496
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Luke Haines

Luke Haines was born in God’s own county of Surrey in 1967. He is the author of two memoirs: Bad Vibes and Post Everything. He has recorded five albums with the Auteurs, one album as Baader Meinhof, three albums with Black Box Recorder, one film soundtrack album, fifty individual volumes of Outsider Music, and three solo albums. He has appeared on Top of the Pops and has been nominated for loads of awards but has won nothing. In 2003 Luke Haines was in Debrett’s People of Today. He thinks that he is no longer listed in this esteemed publication, as the free copy of the magazine hasn’t been delivered for some time. It’s not the end of the world. The author is married with one chid.

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Praise for Post Everything

Post Everything is written with such authority that it suggests that Haines has finally found his calling ... He brilliantly describes two years of futile effort, and the true pain of collaborative endeavours...But Haines's pain provides our pleasure.

Matt Thorne, Independent

Haines was always too clever to be a pop star...As a writer, though, he's a national treasure-in-waiting, cutting through the pomp with drily hilarious anecdotes. Post Everything sums up the silliness of the indie scene perfectly.

Mail on Sunday

Haines manages to maintain a degree of objectivity and offers us a perspective on the music industry as it turns to dust. It helps that he is funny. Like an articulate but permanently pissed uncle, he's a master of the clever cuss and an enthusiastic employer of the tangential footnote...This is an enjoyably smirksome read.

Time Out

"Must never end up like Bobby Gillespie" It's not a bad strategy for life, and happily one the ferociously talented Luke Haines continues to adhere to in his follow-up to Bad Vibes. Resuming from where that excoriatingly brilliant book left off...Grimly amusing.

Word

Thrilling...Against the backdrop of a collapsing music business, the rise of Simon Cowell, reality TV, war, and the great New labour disappointment, this is that very British of things - a celebration of heroic failure...Now that Luke Haines' musical memoirs are complete...let's see where he casts his gimlet eye and chooses to let his pen run next.

NME, Book of the Week

Delightfully scathing, frequently hilarious dissection of his splendidly non-commercial musical career...This is essential reading for old and jaded music fans.

Irish News

Luke Haines: genius. I'm pretty sure he'd hate being called a genius, while secretly thinking, Yes, I am one. He is one ... An astute observer of what's going down ... Post Everything is worth your while.

Andrew Collins

Reads like being regaled in the pub by a brilliantly indiscreet misanthrope ... Hilarious.

Metro