LUKE HAINES

NEW ALBUM SMASH THE SYSTEM IS A RITUAL MAGICK AGIT-PROP CALL TO ARMS BY ARCH PROVOCATUER LUKE HAINES – EX-FRONTMAN OF THE AUTEURS, BLACK BOX RECORDER AND BAADER MEINHOF.

smashSMASH THE SYSTEM (out on 7th October) follows on from recent critically acclaimed works NINE AND A HALF PSYCHEDELIC MEDITATIONS ON BRITISH WRESTLING FROM THE LATE 1970s AND EARLY ’80s (2010), ROCK AND ROLL ANIMALS (2013), NEW YORK IN THE 70s (2014), ADVENTURES IN DEMENTIA (2014) and last year’s BRITISH NUCLEAR BUNKERS. This time round, think HUNKY DORY – or Sabbath’s eponymous debut played on pixiephones and Moog – or Graham Bond Organisation (if they’d been any good) – or Haines’ own 1996 classic BAADER MEINHOF – or Sunn 0))) at the school disco, with tunes… In this edition of The Mouthcast Haines explains why he’s recorded his first non-concept album in years, and also discusses Jeremy Corbyn and the GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF…

Pre-order SMASH THE SYSTEM here