It was only when Haines formed The Auteurs with Glenn Collins and girlfriend Alice Readman, who had also been drafted into The Servants on occasion, in 1991, that he began to achieve some success.

At the time he claimed "I jumped off a fifteen-foot wall[...]to finish the tour and get the insurance"[citation needed] but later, in the sleeve notes to greatest hits collection Das Capital, he denied that it was deliberate, writing "I merely drank too much wine and fell over."

Director Paul Tickell had originally expressed a wish to license How I Learned to Love the Bootboys as the soundtrack for the film but couldn't afford the rights.

A box set covering his career to date, Luke Haines is Dead, was issued in 2005, and two new albums were expected in 2006, including the soundtrack to the abandoned musical Property, which also features Sarah Nixey.

The album was preceded by a double A-sided single "Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (Richard X version)", backed with "I Am The Best Artist/Skinny White Girls."

Haines toured the UK and Ireland in support of the album during November 2006, with John Moore guesting on bowed saw and backing vocals at some dates.

It was subsequently announced on Luke Haines' web site that the band would play their first headlining gig for five years at The Luminaire, Kilburn, London in February 2009.

In issue four of the comic book Phonogram, Haines appears as a spirit guide leading the main character through a metaphorical land representing Britpop.

A documentary on Haines by Irish director Niall McCann, called Art Will Save the World, premiered at the East End film festival in Dalston on 6 July 2012.