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" He dissects the hypocrisies of the music business with the subtlety of a butcher's dog and heaps scorn on his "rinkidink", "light entertainment" contemporaries. Blur are "habitual bandwagon jumpers"; Oasis "mindless northern bluff'; the Verve "shmucks" with "simpleton lyrics". It's hard to take this too seriously and, initially, the schoolboy score-settling is rather enjoyable. Haines is a malevolent Tiny Tim tossing stink bombs into Britpop's shiny toy shop. At one point, he takes aim for real. Hours after performing at a Swedish festival alongside the "schmucks" and the "northern bluff", he fires on them from his hotel balcony with a flare gun as they dance, boorish and drunk, around a fountain, singing choruses of "two world wars and one World Cup".