How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
''How I Learned to Love the Bootboys'' is the fourth and final album by British rock band the Auteurs. It was released on 5 July 1999 through Hut and Virgin Records. Following their third studio album ''After Murder Park'' (1996), Haines started the Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder projects. He regrouped with the Auteurs to start work on a concept album under the name ''ESP Kids'', though sessions halted as Black Box Recorder worked on their debut album '' England Made Me'' (1998). The Auteurs re-started recording their next album in January 1998 at RAK Studios in London; Hut and Virgin were not happy with the lack of single-sounding songs. After writing "The Rubettes", the band finished recording in April 1998. ''How I Learned to Love the Bootboys'' is a glam rock album that takes atmospheric influence from ''England Made Me''. ''How I Learned to Love the Bootboys'' received generally favourable reviews from critics, some of whom praised the quality of the songs, while othe ...
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The Auteurs
The Auteurs were a British alternative rock band of the 1990s, and a vehicle for songwriter Luke Haines (guitar, piano and vocals). Several bands influenced by the Auteurs have taken their names from the band's songs. The Polish band Lenny Valentino took its name from the Auteurs' song on their album ''Now I'm a Cowboy'' and the Minneapolis based band Valet took its name from the song "Valet Parking" from ''New Wave''. History Formerly a member of the Servants, Haines created the Auteurs with his then-girlfriend Alice Readman on bass guitar, former classmate Glenn Collins on drums, and later added James Banbury on cello. (Banbury went on to record an album with Paul Morley under the name Infantjoy, entitled ''Where the Night Goes'' featuring a vocal performance by Sarah Nixey of Black Box Recorder singing a version of Japan's "Ghosts". An Infantjoy album – ''With