In his forthcoming book, Freaks Out!, Luke Haines tells the story of pivotal freaks such as Johnnie Ray, Gene Vincent, Hank Marvin, Syd Barrett, The Incredible String Band and Big Youth through the ...

Luke Haines is the latest Britpop survivor to perpetrate a book. In memoir and fiction, musicians and writers hunt the great pop masterpiece. Jonathan Gibbs wonders if anyone ever will find it ...

Freaks Out! by Luke Haines is out on 28 March (Bonnier Books, £22). You can buy it from The Big Issue shop on Bookshop.org, which helps to support The Big Issue and independent bookshops.. This ...

Or in the public eye", chuckles Luke Haines down the phone line. "I don’t think that that would benefit anyone, really." One might be forgiven for being slightly surprised by such a display of ...

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Luke Haines has made another in a long line of remarkably interesting, unique records. His concerns are consistent and consistently bizarre, his delivery as unsettling as ever, the atmosphere he ...

Auteurs frontman Luke Haines’s new book Freaks Out! offers a waspish, ... To order your copy for £18.99 call 0808 196 6794 or visit Telegraph Books. Join the conversation.

Even fans might be surprised that singer-songwriter Luke Haines has produced a second volume of recollections of his musical career (one more than Keith Richards, Miles Davis or Mark E Smith ...

Luke Haines, rock star, author and "the accidental inventor of Britpop" spoke to Quietus Ed John Doran for Noisey’s British Masters series recently and you can see the short film below. During the ...

As a musician in the 1990s, Luke Haines did not quite fit into the Britpop mainstream. While not a household name (like Pulp or Blur), his band The Auteurs emerged early in that decade when ...

Luke Haines was the mastermind behind the Auteurs, a once touted, relatively literate indie band whose burgeoning career was pretty much flattened by the juggernaut of Britpop and in particular ...