Black Box Recorder

Black Box Recorder: Garage, Highbury, London

Live Review by David Stubbs, New Musical Express, 12 December 1998

'ENGLAND MADE Me' was the most poisonous record of 1998, driven by the sick, silent laughter of Auteur Luke Haines. The likes of 'Girl Singing ...

Black Box Recorder: The Facts of Life

Review by Barney Hoskyns, CDNOW.com, 2000

TIRED OF Brit guitar bands? Luke Haines of British trio Black Box Recorder is. Which is why he’s finally disbanded his old (guitar) group the ...

Black Box Recorder: The Facts Of Life

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000

LIKE THE ABSINTHE which Black Box Recorder's John Moore has busied himself importing since last year, BBR are an unusually toxic pleasure. Here, once more, ...

Luke Haines: Bad Vibes – Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (Heinemann)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 4 January 2009

ROCK HISTORY, like other sorts, tends to get told from the point of view of victors rather than losers. By popular acclaim, the big winners ...

Uncovering the Ballardian Universe of Black Box Recorder 


Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 1 June 2010

Danger, death and British humour: it's all in a day's work for Black Box Recorder, says Jude Rogers, as she sifts through their back catalogue ...