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Forget Blur/Oasis and Cool Britannia. None of that actually happened. Bad Vibes is the true story of English Rock in the nineties. Written with wit, brio and no small amount of bile, Luke Haines recounts how it felt to ride a wave of self-congratulatory success in a world with no taste. As frontman of The Auteurs, Haines tells of supporting Suede, conquering France, and failing to break America. Of knuckle-headed musos , baffling tours and a swiftly unravelling personal life. And of what it's like to be on the cusp of massive success. And then watch it fade away. Funny, honest and ridiculously entertaining, Luke Haines attacks anyone within rifle range, and is more than happy to turn the gun on himself. Bad Vibes is a brilliant memoir from a man who tells it how it was - and how he wishes it wasn't. These recollections could be mistaken for a great comic novel. The formless unpredictable life of the minor rock musician has rarely been captured so acutely... Haines is as funny as he is grumpy - Independent on Sunday Haines' prolific spleen, pasty English wit and peerless way with a smartly tailored insult was always going to make this memoir essential reading - Time Out Beautifully acerbic and elegant. . . a viciously funny writer - Q Magazine

Question: Having failed to conquer the music industry, and written a memoir about that failure, what do you do next? Answer: Write another memoir about yet more failure. Luke Haines' savage and hilarious Bad Vibes became a cult classic, the true story of that most idiotic and shameful of British diseases, 'Britpop'. Now Haines returns to reveal what happened next, once the dust of the mid-nineties has settled.

Luke Haines - the outsider artist par excellence - turns his caustic eye to the rise and fall of alternative rock 'n' roll heroes.

Question: Having failed to conquer the music industry, and written a memoir about that failure, what do you do next? Answer: Write another memoir about yet more failure. Luke Haines' savage and hilarious Bad Vibes became a cult classic, the true story of that most idiotic and shameful of British diseases, 'Britpop'. Now Haines returns to reveal what happened next, once the dust of the mid-nineties has settled.