Luke Haines 's music video for 'British Nuclear Bunkers' has been launched exclusively on Digital Spy .

The song is the title track from Haines's latest studio album, the full-length follow-up to last year's New York in the '70s .

The video has been directed by Sian Pattenden and features a gorilla outfit, hazmat suit, lemons and yogic wrestling poses (of course).


"It was an accident, a total accident," the ex-Auteurs frontman told DS when asked why he had decided to record an electronic rock 'n' roll album .

"I was working on another album that was more song based - that wasn't going to be conceptual at all. Just an album of songs.

"I recorded five or six songs and it was sounding good, there was nothing wrong with it at all, but I started fiddling around with my old synths."

He added: "I'd become aware that there was a nuclear bunker near my house, a Camden Borough controlled-bunker.


"Suddenly that thought wooshed through my mind and then the fact I was twiddling around on an old synth - that very quickly became the title track.

"By the time I'd put in the nuclear warning it seemed obvious there was an album going on here."

The album has been recorded entirely using analogue synthesisers, with the only organic sounds being occasional vocals and a "recording of Camden Borough Control Bunker being attacked late at night by Luke Haines".

British Nuclear Bunkers is released via Cherry Red on October 16. It is available to pre-order now on CD (￡9.95) , or 12" vinyl (￡19.95) with a free 7" single of two non-album tracks.


The track listing of the album is as follows:

Side A
1. This Is The BBC
2. British Nuclear Bunkers
3. Camden Borough Control
4. Test Card Forever
5. Cold Field Morning Under Bliss
Side B
1. Bunker Funker
2. Pussywillow (KIDS Song)
3. Mama Check The Radar At The Dada Station
4. New Pagan Sun
5. Deep Level Shelters Under London

Bonus 7" Vinyl
Side A
1. Electronic Tone Poem
Side B
2. Hack Green

Tickets are available now for a live show at London's Bush Hall on October 21. The venue will be converted into a "nuclear bunker for a Maximum Electronic Rock and Roll show".


A tour of nuclear bunkers around the UK is also promised.

"Beneath the surface of the UK lies a vast and secret network of abandoned nuclear bunkers. Sometime in the future the population of Great Britain has retreated into these bunkers," reads the blurb.

"The reason for this exodus is not clear. Nuclear attack? Chemical attack? Germ warfare? Or perhaps even free will. What is known is that beneath the surface, in the bunkers, people live the utopian dream, communicating wordlessly via a highly developed new subconsciousness."


It continues: "There is no need for money and food is plentiful. The old gods have been forgotten.

"People now offer prayer to a piece of silverware, referred to as the 'New Pagan Sun', found in a bunker at Stoke on Trent, near to the location of the 1980 Darts World Championship final between Eric Bristow and Bobby George."

Haines's last releases were the five-song micro-opera Adventures in Dementia and limited edition folk-ART statement Raving .