I put aside Brian Aldiss's "Greybeard" for a week to read an incredibly funny book called "Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall" by Luke Haines, driving force behond '90s band The Auteurs. An account of the ups and downs of the author's life as he finds fame, kicks it away, the finds it again. You laugh at his envy of better-selling, but of course less-talented contemporaries. The hated Damon Albarn, poor old talentless Suede. An insider's view of how Britpop happened, so coloured by the author's subjectivity it's hard to take anything he says seriously. Good job the story has a fairly happy ending, otherwise it certainly woudn't have seen the light of day.
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