Luke Haines - Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s and Early ‘80s - Fantastic Plastic - FPCD030

Britpop's hardy nearly man Luke Haines' new album, Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling of The 1970s and Early ‘80s, splices Proustian childhood memories with the spandex flare of naïve pre-WWF Saturday stage fights.

Cheap eighties keyboards burble and clatter. Ringside chants become meaningful mantras. Haines whispers intimately, often about sausages.
The former Auteur's latest memoir, Post Everything, details failed attempts to pen a musical for Coldplay-loving commissioners at The National.
But this dayglo dishwater curio is a cult stage hit in embryo.

(9/10/11)