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W♥M199: Black Box Recorder

W♥M199 (16 mins) Read More Black Box Recorder Black Box Recorder is John Moore, Sarah Nixey (vocals) and Luke Haines. Luke Haines is originally from the Auteurs (does anyone remember them?), and he's brilliant …

It's solo-vu for W♥M Radio #199 because it's the calm before the #200 storm (which is being recorded this Saturday, hopefully).

This episode is dedicated to Black Box Recorder.

I followed BBR mainly because I was a big fan of The Auteurs' Luke Haines. I love anything that he was doing, so of course, I love BBR.

The trio was made up of Luke Haines, singer Sarah Nixey, and John Moore (formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain).

I didn't know this until just now, but apparently Moore and Nixey were married between 2001 and 2006. By 2010, the band officially split with their goodbye release two-track single, Final Statement.

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The Auteurs - Car Crazy

 

 

The Auteurs - Car Crazy

The Auteurs

 

I thought I was leaving for Chicago on Friday, but I guess we're leaving tomorrow morning. I haven't even thought about packing yet, but I'm a pretty light packer.

So, a while back, I thought about making a mix-CD of nothing but driving, fast driving, or car songs. It ended up being too depressing because a lot of those songs were about car crashes! Such as "Motorcrash", "Traffic Accident", "Crash" (The Primitives), and "Girl Singing in the Wreckage".

Anyroad, for our road trip this weekend, I thought I'd leave you with some Luke Haines car songs. Luke Haines has been around forever, I met and interview him during The Auteurs' "Now I'm a Cowboy" tour and have been following his career ever since. He joined in Black Box Recorder, which had some minor success. He's currently a solo artist (I believe he's still doing random gigs in England & Ireland).

 

 

Black Box Recorder - The Art Of Driving

So! The two fitting songs are "Car Crazy", which has a very slow country-western feel to it. The lyrics seems to suggest that the narrator was trying to get a snog from the girl, but she denied him and took over the driving. And apparently she was a bad driver, running red lights and ignoring the law.

"The Art of Driving" is not really a song. It's more of a dialogue between Sarah Nixey and John Moore. The song is from the Facts of Life album, but I'm going to include a youtube video. If you want the mpeg video, it's available as a bonus file from their The Worst of Black Box Recorder album.

Well, off to Chicago we go! I don't know what kind of internet access I will have, but expect this to be my last entry until Monday.

vu Links: deeden.co.uk/auteurs (fan website)

Black Box Recorder - Brutality

Black Box Recorder - Brutality

Black Box Recorder

Black Box Recorder is John Moore, Sarah Nixey (vocals) and Luke Haines.

Luke Haines is originally from the Auteurs (does anyone remember them?), and he's brilliant.  I met Luke a while back when I interviewed them for my radio show.

I recommend "The worst of Black Box Recorder" if you're just getting into them, as it is their greatest hits CD (it also comes with some bonus MOV videos).... which I'm sure are all on youtube.

More on the Auteurs later on.