Life Is Unfair

Black Box Recorder featured The Auteurs‘ frontman Luke Haines, Sarah Nixey and John Moore, formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Haines and Moore wrote the songs and Nixey sang them. The single The Facts of Life reached number 20 in 2000 and remains the biggest hit of any single that Luke Haines has had a hand in writing. Life Is Unfair contain all three albums — England Made Me (1998), The Facts of Life (2000) and Passionoia (2003), as well as a 16 track bonus CD of unreleased material, BBC Sessions, single versions and remixes. …Like the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder’s songs commented on the state of English affairs, both social and personal, often using character sketches that exposed the less-than-pleasant…