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Demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. In this title, we learn the story of Haines' post-Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder, we meet a talking cat, two dead rappers, a mystical England football manager, and a shady transgender German Professor.
Trade review
Paperback edition of Haines's follow-up to "Bad Vibes", this reveals what he did after the demise of 'Britpop' in the late 1990s. Includes the story of Haines's art house trio Black Box Recorder, and his writing of a musical for the National Theatre, plus more scathing inside stories on all the bands and most of the players. '"Post Everything" sums up the silliness of the indie scene perfectly.' "Mail On Sunday"
Book Details
Publisher:
Windmill Books
Publication Date:
05-Apr-2012
ISBN:
9780099537496
Guardian review
Post Everything by Luke Haines review
the guardian Tue 17 April 2012
A second volume of autobiography (following on from 2010's Bad Vibes), in which the conflicted artiste furthers his career as the doyen of self-sabotage. Signed to a different label for each of his bands as well as pursuing other apparently doomed projects, he lurches from one body-blow to the next, his only protection steel-capped self-belief. Whenever a straight path to success opens up (record an album, release a single, promote it, have a hit) Haines veers into the undergrowth of resentment, wild benders and counter-intuitive behaviour. Perhaps it's a way of insulating himself from the insane ups and downs to which, as a minor popstar, he is subject: money is promised, then evaporates, he is dropped by labels, "undropped", then frozen out again. Haines's capacity to make us believe that he really doesn't care renders this whole mad world strangely charming. Rather than being chewed up and spat out by the music business, you feel it's him doing the chewing and spitting. As he says: "The inside is bad. Outside is good."