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" Luke Haines honoured the late Mick Farren with a reading at his live show last night (July 30) at London&amp;#039;s Borderline. Journalist and author Farren died after collapsing following a set with his band The Deviants at the same venue on Saturday (July 27). He was 69.   &amp;amp;gt; Luke Haines interview: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m always looking for God&amp;#039; Before playing &amp;#039;Gene Vincent&amp;#039; from his current album Rock and Roll Animals, Haines read an excerpt about Vincent&amp;#039;s latter years and death from Farren&amp;#039;s 2002 memoir Give The Anarchist A Cigarette. Other songs performed from the new album included &amp;#039;A Badger Called Nick Lowe&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Magic Interlude&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Angel of the North&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;From Hersham To Heaven&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Rock N Roll Animals in Space&amp;#039; and lead single &amp;#039;Rock N Roll Animals&amp;#039;.  Julia Davis, who narrates several interludes on Haines&amp;#039;s new album, was in attendance at the show, but did not join the singer-songwriter on stage. Her portions were replicated by Haines, who occasionally accompanied himself on keyboards and a single drum, quipping that he was performing all the overdubs simultaneously as on the album, but &amp;quot;without editing things out&amp;quot;.      &amp;amp;gt; Luke Haines: &amp;#039;Outsider/In: The Collection&amp;#039; - Album review Haines continued his solo acoustic set with songs from his last album Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and early &amp;#039;80s. Among the tracks played from his 2011 concept record were &amp;#039;Saturday Afternoon&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Inside The Restless Mind Of Rollerball Rocco&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Big Daddy Got A Casio VL-Tone&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Haystacks In Heaven&amp;#039;. As at his show at London&amp;#039;s Lexington in 2011, Haines was accompanied by a man in a Kendo Nagasaki mask during &amp;#039;Saturday Afternoon&amp;#039;, who handed out liver sausage sandwiches to gig-goers. The ex-Auteurs frontman closed his set with a selection of tracks from earlier in his career, finishing with renditions of with &amp;#039;Leeds United&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Show Girl&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Baader Meinhof&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Lenny Valentino&amp;#039;. Rock and Roll Animals is out now on CD, vinyl and digital download via Cherry Red. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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