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for|the website|The Auteurs (film website)Refimprove|date=July 2009Infobox musical artist | name = The Auteurs| image =| caption = "| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = United Kingdom | genre = Alternative rock , indie pop | years_active = 1991& ndash;1999| label = Hut Records | associated_acts = Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder | website =| current_members =| past_members = Luke Haines Alice Readman Glenn Collins James Banbury Barney C. Rockford| notable_instruments = The Auteurs were a British alternative rock musical ensemble|band of the 1990s, and a vehicle for songwriter Luke Haines ( guitar , piano and singing|vocals ).cite book | first= Martin C. | last= Strong | year= 2000 | title= The Great Rock Discography | edition= 5th | publisher= Mojo Books | location= Edinburgh | pages= 35–36 | isbn= 1-84195-017-3
Career
Formerly of the band The Servants , Haines created the Auteurs with his then-girlfriend Alice Readman on bass guitar , former classmate Glenn Collins on drum s, and later added James Banbury on cello . Their first single (music)|single " Showgirl (song)|Showgirl " was praised by the United Kingdom music magazine , Melody Maker , and led to the band gaining a recording contract with Hut Records|Hut . The album , New Wave (The Auteurs album)|New Wave (1993), was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize and saw The Auteurs associated with the emerging Britpop genre.
However this association never sat well with Haines who frequently made derogatory remarks about his peers. After New Wave , the band remained on the fringes of the music scene. Drummer Glen Collins was replaced by Barny C. Rockford, after being headhunted from Out of My Hair|"Out Of My Hair" by producer Phil Vinall. Their next album '' Now I'm a Cowboy (1994), built on the themes of New Wave'' and contained Haines' best known song, "Lenny Valentino". Demonstrating, again, their difference from their musical peers, the band's next release was The Auteurs vs Muziq|The Auteurs Vs. µ-Ziq , Auteurs songs remix ed by record producer|producer µ-Ziq (aka Mike Paradinas|Michael Paradinas ). In interviews at the time Haines claimed he found contemporary techno and house music more interesting than most Britpop bands.citation needed|date=July 2009 In 1996 The Auteurs released After Murder Park , produced by Steve Albini , and it included "Land Lovers", "Unsolved Child Murder", and "Buddha". The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios following a year during which Haines had spent most of his time in a wheelchair after jumping off a wall to avoid the strains of concert tour|touring . Haines then went on to create a band and release an album, based on aspects of the Red Army Faction|Baader Meinhof terrorist organisation, entitled Baader Meinhof . "Baader Meinhof" supported "The Auteurs" at a London show in Camden's "Dingwalls". This saw the band play two sets in different guises, with a few extra musicians coming in and out. The last Auteurs record, How I Learned to Love the Bootboys , was released in 1999.
Alice Readman left the band around the time of the last album, and was replaced by various musicians for live/touring purposes.
Haines also worked as one third of the art-pop band Black Box Recorder , and in 2001 released the soundtrack album to the film, '' Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry , rapidly followed by his first solo album proper, The OliverTwist Manifesto . 2003 saw him release Das Capital (album)|Das Capital , a collection of re-recorded Auteurs era songs, with a couple of new tracks, apparently intended as closure for that band.
Banbury went on to record an album with PaulMorley under the name Infantjoy, and entitled Where the Night Goes . It features a vocal performance by Sarah Nixey of Black Box Recorder singing a version of Japan (band)|Japan's " Ghosts (Japan song)|Ghosts ". An Infantjoy album, With , was released in 2006 with collaborators including Tunng , Isan (band)|Isan and Populous. James Banbury is currently working with Pete Davis under the name dadahack . Their debut album " TAP3 " is a hybrid cassette/mp3 playing device and was released in April 2010.
Several bands influenced by the Auteurs have taken their names from the band's songs. The Poland|Polish band Lenny Valentino took its name from The Auteurs' song on their album ''Now I'm a Cowboy and the Minneapolis based band, Valet, took its name from the song "Valet Parking" from New Wave .
In January 2009, Haines released a book entitled Bad Vibes , which serves dually as an autobiography|autobiographical account of his years with The Auteurs, and as a record of the Britpop movement of the 1990s. Throughout the book, he never refers to James Banbury by name, referring to him simply as "the Cellist", although he is named in full in the acknowledgements.
Discography
Studio albums
New Wave (The Auteurs album)|New Wave (1993) - UK Albums Chart|UK #22
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EPs
Live Acoustic EP (1993)
The Auteurs vs Muziq|The Auteurs Vs. µ-Ziq (remixes), (1994)
Back with the Killer EP|Back with the Killer (1995) - UK Singles Chart|UK #45
http://www.deeden.co.uk/auteurs/ Unofficial Auteurs web site
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