LUKE HAINES

9½ PSYCHEDELIC MEDITATIONS ON BRITISH WRESTLING OF THE 1970S AND EARLY 80S

JAMES MCNAIR

(Fantastic Plastic Records, 2011) Formerly with 90s indie act The Auteurs, then art-pop trio Black Box Recorder, Luke Haines has long enjoyed journeying off-piste. A misanthropic provocateur whose 2009 memoir, Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfall, ruffled feathers, he’s written songs about English motorways, 70s pop act The Rubettes, and a badger named Nick Lowe, but his sixth solo album was outré even by his standards. An unnerving love letter to British wrestling, the trippy, tragicomic 9½ Psychedelic Meditations… is a concept LP celebrating the tough, marginalised lives of such famed British grapplers as Kendo Nagasaki, Giant Haystacks and Catweazle. “I think it would have taken a lot of courage for Catweazle – who was really called Gary Cooper and from Doncaster – to assume that character…

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