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Luke Michael Haines (born 7 October 1967) is an English musician, songwriter and author. He has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder.
- Obvously Lots of People Have That Ambition, But You Actually Did it.
- Did You Go to Art School?
- Did You Have A Period Where You Were Just Doing Normal Jobs?
- How Hard Was It to Get A Band Together? Was That Relatively Easy Thing to do?
- But Why? Was It Just That People Recognised The Quality of Your Songwriting?
- That’S Interesting. I Didn’T Know that.
- So They Didn’T See You as Any Kind of Threat, basically?
- So A Very Different Kind of Thing…
- And Have That Lifestyle?
- You seem to Be Quite Very Conceptual…
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I wanted to be in a rock band and I wanted to be an artist, because my dad was a graphic designer. He started off through art school and all of that and it sounded really attractive. And when I was young I was quite good at drawing and painting and all of that.
Yes. I was probably the last intake at the free arts school and I did my foundation, like all good rock and rollers do [laughs]. But then I promptly abandoned art for many, many years.
No, I’ve never had a proper job in my life. Never. I went to music college after I left art college. I studied music composition, guitar and piano.
For The Servants [Luke played guitar in David Westlake’s late 80s indie band], it was always really hard to keep the band going. You can never keep a drummer, or bass player, for long. They usually go and join Felt. Lawrence even asked me to join Felt – he’s probably forgotten that – but he asked me a long, long time ago. He’ll probably deny it!
I think with five years in The Servants I learned what being in a band entailed. I really liked a lot of stuff I was on, the stuff I recorded with Dave – and I still record every so often with Dave, if he asks me, he’s a good friend – but there was a lot of sitting around, not doing very much. We’d record a song in a studio once every three years a...
Yeah, yeah, so basically, he just went around the labels with a finished album and said “here you go…”.
No, I wouldn’t have thought so. They had Bernard[Butler]. He was an explosive guitarist at that point. I hadn’t seen anyone who could touch him. And Brett was a great frontman. They had it all. They were super, super tight and we were super, super shambolic. Before we supported them we’d only played about five gigs.
Very different. And the stuff that was being thrown back at us when people started writing about The Auteurs, like the Bowie thing – I mean I love Bowie – but I thought that we had absolutely nothing to do with Hunky Dory. I always thought it was more sort of vaguely somewhere between [The Kinks’] Village Greenand early Fall. And Television and stu...
Yes. But then it got… I sort of realised I was finding it hard to write songs and the band weren’t always… erm… in terms of personalities, it wasn’t the romantic vision I had. I’m not sure that really exists…
I’ve come to realise I’m an idiot savant. I think I’m very fearful – no fearful is the wrong word – I’m awareof wasting an idea, perhaps because I don’t want to miss an idea. Not because I think it’s gonna be ‘the song’ or it’s going to solve the problems in the Middle East. It’s just like, this is a nice idea for a song. It’s as simple as that.
Luke Haines, the singer and songwriter of The Auteurs, talks about his musical career, influences and the new box set of their EMI recordings. He also reveals his ambitions, challenges and collaborations in the indie rock scene of the 1990s.
Luke Haines' new album 'New York In The '70s' released on 26th May 2014 through Cherry Red Records. In an exclusive clip Luke discuss the creation of the final track on the album...
Feb 24, 2018 · Luke Haines returns with a new album I Sometimes Dream Of Glue, in May. Haines actually mentioned the album in his entertaining SDE interview last year, although at that time he called it I Dream Of Airfix Glue.
Mar 26, 2021 · Pre-Order and pre-save 'Luke Haines In... Setting the Dogs On The Post Punk Postman' here: https://smarturl.it/LukeHainesExStasiSpySubscribe to Cherry Red Re...
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Luke Haines is a British singer-songwriter, author and former member of The Auteurs. Find out his biography, discography, lyrics and more on Genius.
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Luke Haines - Smash The System (Official Video). Taken from the new album Smash The System released on 7th October 2016. http://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/sm... Directed and Produced by Tim ...
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