Peter Buck was, at some point, the guitarist for the biggest band in the world: R.E.M..

Luke Haines was the guitarist for The Auteurs, who were not the biggest band in the world, but quite good, still.

Luke Haines also does paintings of Lou Reed. One day Peter Buck bought one of Luke's Lou Reed paintings. They had never met before, but decided that the fates had brought them together and they should write some songs together and make an album.

Beat Poetry For Survivalists is that album. It was released by Cherry Red on Friday 6 March 2020 and contains songs about legendary rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, The Enfield Hauntings (1978), Bigfoot, Pol Pot and a post-apocalyptic radio station that only plays Donovan records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.