Luke Haines

One of the most prolific British songwriters of the 90s, Haines sprang to prominence in 1992 with his band The Auteurs and the Mercury Music Prize-nominated album 'New Wave', inadvertently kicking off Britpop in the process. He was also the brains behind Baader Meinhoff and Black Box Recorder, who with vocalist Sarah Nixey scored a UK top 20 single in 2000 with 'The Facts Of Life'. Haines has continued to release a series of idiosyncratic solo albums, along with writing a regular column for Record Collector magazine and presenting a weekly show on London's online station Boogaloo Radio.