Luke Haines United Kingdom

Biography

Formerly of mid 90s electro-indie bands The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder, this legendary front man has gone solo with a hip-hop/pop pastiche sound to play to a well establised following of fans. Relentlessly highbrow, Haines's dark-but-mischievous lyrics typically fall into three groups: musings on obscure Anglicana (The Mitford Sisters, Freddie Mills is Dead), bitter attacks on modern society, particularly the arts (The Death of Sarah Lucas, Christ) and twisted 1970s anti-nostalgia (Leeds United

Popular Songs

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  The Spook Manifesto

  The Oliver Twist Manifesto
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  Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop

  Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop

  Key of Am

  1m
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  Everybody's Coming Together for the Summer (Pt. 2)

  I Sometimes Dream of Glue

  Key of C

  1d
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  Peter Hammill

  21st Century Man

  Key of C

  1d
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  The Birds... The Birds

  Rock and Roll Animals

  Key of C

  1d

Discography

I Sometimes Dream of Glue

2018

Glue E.P

2018

Smash the System

2016

British Nuclear Bunkers

2015

New York in the '70s

2014

Rock and Roll Animals

2013

9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early '80s

2011

21st Century Man

2009

Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop

2006

The Oliver Twist Manifesto

2001