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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eventbrite - Find My Tickets share.google/vDcwO5P54P4t... I have some paintings showing at the Atom Gallery 'Wrestle Room' Exhibition. 9th Oct onwards. On 10th October Kendo Nagasaki will be there! On 16th I will Perform my wrestling album (6pm) It's free but you have to reserve a place here.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Forget yer half witted Kneecaps (who?) and Bob Vylan ( eh?). Watch a master at work.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...an 800 page biog is incongruous for a man who rarely exceeded 100 pages in his novels. It's a great biog in many ways, but...here's the rub: Even with a shit ton of redneck gun play, bad behaviour, and alcoholism; a writers life is quite dull. Stick to the novels and poetry.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally finished William Hortsberg' monster 800 plus page Richard Brautigan biog ' Jubilee Hitchhiker.' I love Brautigan's best writing, but what have I learned? Why have I spent 3 months reading this insane biography?

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Merci Paris. BBR's first show in Paris. You were fab.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks to all who came to the shows over the last week. We had a Righteous blast - I hope you did x

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mike Batt being entirely correct. And he wrote all the songs for the Wombles who were fucking brilliant.

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Tom Jefferys @tomjefferys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just seen the excellent @lukehaines.bsky.social power trio at the Portland Arms in Cambridge. Superb show. Lots of great songs about british wrestlers, and 70s kids TV. And even a few classic Auteurs songs thrown in for good measure.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good time in Glasgow and Manc. Met and chatted with loads of nice people. Thanks for coming out y'all. Cambridge tonight.

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Eamonn McGuinness @emcguinness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spare ticket available for @lukehaines.bsky.social at The Lexington, London Friday 18th Sept. Available via the Wait List on DICE - dice.fm/event/wwpr9x...

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Luke Haines Tickets | 18 Sept | The Lexington, London | DICE

Crosstown Concerts Presents... Luke Haines \+ support

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A few tix on the door at the Night and Day cafe Manchester. Come along it will be epic! On stage 9pm.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Check out this review of Sainsbury's Local on Google Maps goo.gl/maps/gXuY6i9... They say that journalism is dead. Happily it is not. After a lengthy battle with The Man, my review of Sainsburys local in Crouch End has finally been published. A victory for free speach.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This weeks shows: Glasgow Hug and Pint - few tix left Manchester Day Night - few tix left Cambridge Portland - tix left London Lexington - sold out. No tix. Bristol Louisiana - few tix left.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I once did a painting of an RNLI lifeboat. It was on 'the news'. I was about 7. Have we really got to the point where arseholes are trying to depict the RNLI as bad guys. Steve Ignorant ( crass, good dude) is an RNLI man.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Score yerself one of these. Great record, great band.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, not to be trivial about racist halfwits; I was right about Portsmouth. ( where I was brought up age 12 - 17).

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Re last post. The singles reviews catch the temperature of the times. I.e that Buzzcocks review which criticizes them for sticking to a formula when they'd only been in the singles charts for less than a year at the time.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Most of the writing in the old music weeklies hasn't stood the test of time. The only thing that reads well are the singles review pages. Here's a typical one:

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

| John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I dunno what dear old John Harris is banging on about here, but I do know that if you are making any kind of case for Geese then printing loads of their lyrics won't help. My eyes, the pain. I'm too old for this Geese band.

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It felt as if the world had tired of rock music, yet Geese are the perfect soundtrack for this age of disquiet | John Harris

This young American band, led by Cameron Winter, make music for a generation on the edge, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just deleted 3 friends from my contacts. They all died this year.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm joining Swell Maps for a few songs at the Clerkenwell Festival. On stage 5.30pm. It's free!

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ah fuck. Dolly P. Total icon. Insanely great songwriter. Righteous queen of country. Parents of kids in UK state schools will know about her free books for kids drive. What a human in an age of not so great humans. Go Dolly - go to wherever you are destined to go. Haines fam loved you x

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bryden Carse: Bryden Carse is in a nightclub. Bryden Carse has planted himself in a potato patch. Matthew Potts and Bryden Carse are the baby spuds and they want to be like daddy potato Ben Stokes. Does anyone go to 'nightclubs'apart from thick sports people.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Beautiful Days | share.google/IavxRntb4r8M... I am playing a solo set this Friday afternoon at the Beautiful Days Festival. ( around half 3 in the afternoon).Expect songs about Sooty, Kendo Nagasaki and murdered children. It will probably rain.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I haven't listened to 'A Part Of America - Therein' (iykyk). Opening with The NWRA in Chicago, in 1981, with kazoo, is fucking wild.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Where i'm at: I've only just found out that Grian Chatton is in Fontaines DC. I am very cynical about old folks liking Charli XCX ( including you John Cale). I have no interest in Tyla The Creator. I think Kneecap are silly. And I think that Lieutenant Pigeon are better than Nick Cave.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Saints preserve us. The woeful casting of this Beatle biopic may kill off the retro Beatle industry for a decade. There is no great rock biopic... perhaps the Buddy Holly Story with Gary Busey.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you are careless with the words you write, and if you write with no soul, you become an unwitting practitioner of Chaos Magik.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

www.sunburnsout.com/festival-out... BBR live in Paris September 25th. Rather good cartoon, featuring Momus, John, and me looking like a retired army officer who now works in a menswear shop.

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Festival Outsiders 3 : la billetterie est ouverte ! - Sun Burns Out

Billetterie de l'édition 2026 du Festival Outsiders qui aura lieu les 25 et 26 septembre, avec : Perio, Black Box Recorder, Momus, Scott Mc..

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

By the way, BBR are playing in Paris. 25th September. No idea of tix if there any. Just FYI

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Copping flak from the rock grandads today. I don't write those old angsty Auteurs songs anymore. I was 25. I'm 58. I do what I want. Do you? Still scrapping it out for 200 words and £50? If you like the old angsty stuff you could get into BBR - like the kids (200 mil streams and counting, dad)

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Irvine Welsh has discovered Nick Land and Sadie Plant. Repeat: Irvine Welsh has discovered Nick Land and Sadie Plant. This will affect new Primal Scream album, and James Brown of NME. This is a warning. Marxist junglist disco imminent. Exciting. Call ebay. 3D printer is pumping out twats.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Kinks songs ranked in the Graun. I love the Kinks. But, dear God, how many times can this stuff be churned over. Heritage rock alzeimers.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Over and out from me. A good day. Number one son just graduated with 1st degree honours. So well done to all the super bright kids who have graduated. * I never, fick as spuds me* Night all.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I was forgetting the Moodies. Who were great. Certainly not weak public schoolboys.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ok. You Yes fans, do yer thing. Rejoice in your Yesness. I salute your fortitude. But for me Yes is a no.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Floyd were good up until and including the ridiculous ( but great) Ummugumma. Wish You Were Here is fab, but I regard it as the third Syd solo album. Syd was such a magician that he didn't even need to appear on it. His spirit just consumes it. That's genius. #lukehaineshasopinions.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm not really down with the prog reappraisal. The good stuff was great: Van Der Graf (PH told me they weren't prog they were part of 'the underground) Genesis, until Pete fucked off and became a 'world music' yuppie. The rest was weak public school namby pamby nonsense.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My late pal Tommy Udo once said that if Mike Oldfield had come from Dusseldorf, we'd revere him as much as Faust , AshRa et al. I think he was right.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Watching Peter Hamill on the prog rock proms singing 'Refugees'. Mindblowingly great. Been playing 'Pawn Hearts' alot lately, there's nothing like it. Visionary, terrifying. Actual genius.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't want Richard Dadd explained to me. I don't need Bill Callahan to explain Ed Askew to me. I don't want to understand everything. Stop explaining you fucking halfwits.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Is giving Justin Langer rhe England coaching job a bit like giving Kim Philby a job at MI6...oh. etc.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Poor old Robbie w. He'll swim thru any old river of shit, have a think, and then have another breakdown. Silly sod.

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I kinda miss Assange. I mean, obviously he was a massive, time wasting twat, but occasionally I miss his ludicrous whiney antics. Huh.

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Steve Wynn reports from his recent recording sessions in Athens: “And that’s a wrap. 4 days, 13 songs and a great group of friends able to exhale and celebrate a mighty fine session. The result? My first proper solo album in 17 years, hopefully coming out in the first half of next year…” 👇

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I don't have a dog in the race but here are a few post England out pluses: My half wit neighbour has taken his moronic flag down in a strop. You don't have to hear Wonderwall unless you want to. Andy Burnham has been saved from saying something moronic about football. Britpop #2 has been averted.

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