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The Auteurs: London School of Economics

Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 6 November 1999

HE'S AGED well. In the six years since the Auteurs first waltzed into the fray, Luke Haines seems to have grown into his scowling, petulant features. He might not canter about the stage on a motorised potty, a la Robbie, but his onstage demeanour — terse, brusque, gleefully focused — characterises a more brutally satisfying brand of pop performance.

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