There was a time in the mid-Nineties when The Auteurs and their main man Luke Haines seemed like becoming the next big thing.

Despite this great debut single and rave reviews for their Mercury-nominated first album New Wave, it turned out they weren’t.

It may not have helped that, having been lazily (or luckily) lumped in with Oasis and Blur, Pulp and Suede, Haines took every opportunity to deride Britpop in the music press, thus blowing his band’s chance to ride on its coat tails

At times he seemed intent on sabotaging any chance of success. After a second album, Now I’m A Cowboy, that contained another banger in Lenny Valentino, he turned towards techno and house, releasing an album of Auteurs songs remixed by producer μ-Ziq.

Haines then spent a year in a wheelchair after jumping off a wall, before recording another Auteurs album, After Murder Park, produced by Steve Albini. It was followed by a solo album under the name Baader Meinhof, followed by a final Auteurs album, How I Learned To Love The Bootboys, in 1999.

Even after they faded away, there was a possibility that Haines’s very different next band, Black Box Recorder, featuring vocalist Sarah Nixey, might be another next big thing. But they weren’t either.

In 2003 Haines re-recorded a number of Auteurs songs for an album called Das Capital, and six years later he wrote a memoir of his time with the band, and his reflections on Britpop, tellingly titled Bad Vibes.