Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s & Early '80s flac album

The band produced three commercially successful albums, England Made Me, The Facts of Life, and Passionoia. A documentary on Luke Haines by Irish director Niall McCann, called Art Will Save the World, premiered at the East End film festival in Dalston on 6 July 2012. It was also shown at the Barcelona, Copenhagen and Cork film festivals. It featured interviews with Jarvis Cocker, John Niven, David Peace and Stewart Home along with extensive interviews with Haines. Rock and Roll Animals, 2013. New York in the '70s, 2014. Raving (Vols 1-75), 2015. Adventures In Dementia 2015.

This album has an average beat per minute of 108 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 82/140 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. 1. Inside the Restless Mind of Rollerball Rocco. Recent albums by Luke Haines. I Sometimes Dream of Glue.

Haines writes songs that somehow touch a raw nerve of emotional response – even when, as here, he's imagining the podgy heroes beloved of UK grapple-fans, projected into absurdist situations beyond their public image. 1/2. 2/2. Haines writes songs that somehow touch a raw nerve of emotional response – even when, as here, he's imagining the podgy heroes beloved of UK grapple-fans, projected into absurdist situations beyond their public image. Big Daddy plonks cack-handedly on a Casio VL-Tone keyboard; Rollerball Rocco regrets visiting Les Kellett's greasy spoon; and most memorably, Kendo Nagasaki broods darkly as he writes a "Rock Opera in the Key of Existential Misery", murmuring the menacing apology "I'm not Leonard Cohen, and I'm certainly not Nick Drake".

It has later been adapted to CD and vinyl format. As its title explicitly says, the songs have psychedelic arrangements and are talking about old wrestlers.

Cool & Cocky Everyday Life Maverick Mischief Politics/Society Relationships. 2. What the Plumber Saw. Luke Haines. 4. Rock Opera: In the Key of Existential Misery.

Studio album by Luke Haines. 7 November 2011 (2011-11-07). In the course of the album, Haines uses true wrestler names and uses them to make his fictional story. Haines's namedropping contains: Mark Rocco, Gorgeous George, Mick McManus, Shirley Crabtree, Pat Roach, Kendo Nagasaki, George Cannon and many more. All tracks written and composed by Luke Haines except for track 1 by Don Harper. Inside The Restless Mind Of Rollerball Rocco" – 4:15. He worked for Joint Promotions and the British Wrestling Federation. Initially a villain, he teamed with Giant Haystacks. He later becam. mage: Shirley "Big Daddy" Crabtree. George Cannon (wrestler). George Arnold McCarther, better known as George "Crybaby" Cannon, was a Canadian pro wrestler and wrestling manager, best known as manager of the Fabulous Kangaroos.

Summary: Haines has said that his motivation for writing this 30-minute, 10-song concept album about wrestling was his father's recent illness and how it caused him to reflect on childhood memories of watching the sport. Record Label: Fantastic Plastic. Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock.