The Auteurs to release a new album?

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I heard they had a new album coming, but I can't find anything. What's Haines up to?

― freiden4xl, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Really?!!!

(in case someone hasn't figured it out yet, Me:Luke Haines::Alex in NYC:Killing Joke)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

There's a three disc box set called "Luke Haines Is Dead" coming out in July. I think it's fairly exhaustive but there's not going to be a huge amount of completely unreleased stuff on it. He's doing two solo albums but I'm not sure when they'll be out; apparently rumours of one of them being a concept album about Winston Churchill were false.

Newish site at http://www.lukehaines.co.uk

― M Philip O'Nyman (Ferg), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh OK. I was afraid the rumor referred to the US release of Das Capital or something lame like that.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Actual Auteurs album is unlikely, the original Auteurs were dismissed on grounds of "diminished musical responsibility" and weren't anything to do with recent shows listed as Haines + Auteurs. Not that it matters especially.

(I liked Das Capital!)

― M Philip O'Nyman (Ferg), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

There we go:

The facts of life are this: Luke Haines Is Dead features the aforementioned Showgirl, a lost BBC take of Government Book Store, further BBC session versions of The Upper Classes and Everything You Say Will Destroy You, the Rough Trade version of Housebreaker, a song actually penned with Kylie Minogue in mind called I’m A Rich Man’s Toy, live Radio One session recordings of Modern History, New French Girlfriend (written initially for Vanessa Paradis) and Chinese Bakery, Baader Meinhof outtakes of X Boogie Man (featuring a Vox Univibe keyboard once owned by Joe Meek) and Car Crash, and four Steve Albini-produced Peel Session tracks including the Jonathan King-endorsed Kids Issue. And praise can hardly come higher than that. There is more, of course: remixes including Confrontation, Dalai Lama and Fuse are no doubt present and correct due to their exorbitant individual prices on eBay; ESP Kids and the stupendous and never-before-available version of Future Generation; Das Capital diamonds Satan Wants Me, The Mitford Sisters and Bugger Bognor are presumably herein cos not enough people bought Das Capital and these tunes rank amongst Haines’ finest. If you ever needed an introduction to Haines’s work, Luke Haines Is Dead is it.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

So, basically, meh.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that box doesn't look so hot, but I'll still buy it. Does anyone have any news no these two new albums he's putting out?

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I just did a search online and it appears that the other Luke Haines sites are down. Too bad, really, because one of them had a pretty complete discography, whereas this official Haines site only has the album discography.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

He did a couple of the new songs live in Islington a few months ago, one was about Gary Glitter and the other was called "Heritage Rock Revolution" and lambasted various elderly rock stars for continuing to record/live. Other than that, dunno.

― M Philip O'Nyman (Ferg), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

So, basically, meh.

*insert comment here*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

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