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Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, December 1993
"HELLO! WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?!" asks Brett Anderson rhetorically, staring at the fluff he has just removed from his ear. "I haven't taken these ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 6 March 1997
Speaking from a Singapore hotel room, the Suede frontman talks about new album Coming Up; the band's popularity abroad; what London means to him, and looks back at Britpop.
File format: mp3; file size: 22.5mb, interview length: 24' 37" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1993
Brett Anderson and Mat Osman talk about being out of place and initially dismissed as a joke; about Suede's breakthrough; their non-nostalgic Englishness; the effect of Melody Maker's "greatest band" headline; being provincial; the importance of the Smiths; lyrical concerns; their relationship with the UK's Nude label while being signed to Columbia in America; how they reach their fans; the US resistance to British pop and the nature of "taking America" (or not).
File format: mp3; file size: 56.1mb; Interview length: 58' 29"; sound quality: ****
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Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
THOSE OF you by now wearied of the periodic meanders up the garden path you have made at this paper's behest will read this, as ...
New Tower Generation: Suede: The Empire Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
I'D ARRIVED WITH half an idea that maybe Suede had stopped mattering, that they'd wandered off into irrelevance, thanked for the memories but not really ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 29 April 1999
BROADER IN musical conception than their previous albums, Head Music reflects two basic changes in Suede's working methods since Coming Up. The most obvious is ...
Suede: Brett Anderson interviewed
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Interview, May 1997
WHEN, NEARLY three years ago, Bernard Butler walked out of Suede - or the London Suede, as they are unhappily obliged to call themselves in ...
Various Artists: Oh Yes We Can Love – A History Of Glam Rock
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013
GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, November 1992
ONE IS swayed by Suede. For all their foppish airs and graces, their teasing glam-rock quotes, there is a real meat to their music which ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 3 October 1992
Caitlin Moran discovers it's hard to be humble when you're the coolest Best Band in Britain ...
Rejoice! Rejoice! Britpop is dead
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 28 November 1997
The jig is up, the hype exposed, and now Oasis, Pulp and the rest will have to do a proper job ...
Suede: The Grand, Clapham, London
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 24 July 1993
THERE'S A JARMAN... WAITING IN THE WINGS ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 22 October 1992
BARELY six months old, Suede are attracting extravagant hyperbole. The London foursome have been deemed the best British guitar band since the Smiths, and their ...
Suede: "Who says you can only do great stuff if you're damaged?"
Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 5 Fall 2013
Good news for beautiful, conflicted outsiders: after 11 years, Suede are back – with an album that's as sharp as their singer's cheekbones. ...
Effete of Clay — Suede: City Hall, Hull
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 31 October 1994
Brett Anderson forsakes camp as Suede struggle to impress in Hull ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 April 1999
It is ten years since Suede released their seminal debut album. Caroline Sullivan meets one of the most influential bands of the nineties ...
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, April 1997
IT SEEMS THE London Suede is the band that everybody loves to hate. No matter how many records they sell, or how many venues they ...
Report by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1995
IS THE NEWEST WAVE FROM THE U.K. A WASHOUT? ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, November 1994
SUEDE'S FANS have always been utterly unwavering in their belief in the band. But out there, in the big bad world, the group still suffers ...
Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 24 January 1997
Suede were mammoth, then they were rubbished, and now they're hot again. David Sinclair takes to their leader ...
Suede: Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 3 October 1996
Step aside, Oasis, the hard men are back ...
Suede: Kentish Town Forum, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 8 January 1994
Figgy Star Lust ...
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs Of Noel Coward
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998
PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...
Suede: Eventim Apollo, London — more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 14 October 2018
Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance ...
Suede: Underworld, Camden, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 11 January 1992
OH MY WORD. Proud survivors of a transformation, Suede stalk the Underworld stage like a snarling, growling rock beast. Now one guitarist lighter, they've compensated ...
Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995
IAN WATSON talks to the bands who are contributing to the Help album and how this project compares to pop's last major charity initiative, the ...
Bassists: Let's Stick Together
Overview by James Medd, The Word, February 2012
They are "the glue" that cements the music, the mysterious put-upon souls plying their crucial trade in a cloud of dry ice by the drum-riser. ...
The London Suede: Manhattan Center Ballroom, New York NY
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 6 April 1995
"THIS IS A boring old one," Brett Anderson says with a shrug, and then Suede ignite 'Animal Nitrate', a typically brazen concoction of straight-razor guitar, ...
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 June 1993
Hip, retro Suede: the no-grunge alternative ...
Suede: Fan Fare for the Common Room
Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 6 November 1993
Recently returned from their second American tour, SUEDE have decided the US is their sort of place and they want out of cynical, self-consuming Britain. ...
Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 14 January 1995
Has it all gone wrong for SUEDE? Dog Man Star not accorded the status they wished for, doubt over Richard Oakes' ability to better Bernard, ...
Britpop: Modern Life Is... Brilliant!
Overview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 7 January 1995
It was the year grunge died, the year of jungle... arses. It was the year that BRITISH POP found its feet again, and what's more, ...
Suede: While My Guitarist Swiftly Leaves
Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994
What a guffing idiot, eh readers? You're the genius guitarist in SUEDE, you've just finished your second album and then... you bugger off amid rumours ...
Suede: Dog Man Star (Nude/All formats)
Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 1 October 1994
DIAMOND 'DOG'! ...
Brett Anderson and the real rivalry of Britpop
Retrospective by John Lewis, So London, March 2007
BACK IN the heyday of Britpop, the rivalry that garnered all the column inches was that between Blur and Oasis; the nice middle-class Essex boys ...
Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, January 1994
They were suburban loners who saw the potential for beauty inside the tawdry and extravagant. Together they won attention and success. As Suede step into ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 22 October 2010
Drugs, M.E. and despair sent the poor urchins of Britpop their separate ways in 2003. Now Suede have come roaring back to life. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jude Rogers, Q, August 2013
Suede kick-started Britpop 20 years ago, but their arty glam-indie rock was soon overtaken by the more laddish likes of Oasis and Blur. Today, singer ...
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 27 March 1993
A VERY BRETTISH COUP ...
Suede: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 16 November 2002
NO BAND STAYS hip for ever and Suede have been falling out of favour for a few years now, but the tepid reaction to their ...
Modern Life Isn't Rubbish: The Trouble With Britpop Nostalgia
Comment by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 April 2014
The mainstream media are currently engaged in a collective misty-eyed throwback to the 'glory days' of the mid 90s. Luke Turner, who was a teenager ...
Cheating The "Living Death": Suede Interviewed
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, March 2013
They triumphed with their live return, and now they're about to release killer new album Bloodsports. Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman ...
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, June 2011
Four pale, skinny suburban fops, inspired by Bowie and The Smiths, at the start of 1994 SUEDE were British pop saviours, poised for greatness. But ...
Suede: Who Loves A Lad In Suede?
Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, May 1993
Suede were touted 'the best new band in Britain' before they even left the blocks, now, as they release their debut album, VOX delves behind ...
Bernard Butler: Gentleman And Player
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, July 1994
When his father died last year, Bernard Butler used his guitar to assuage his grief. Now Britain's most important guitar hero since Johnny Marr has ...
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 7 December 1996
STARSPOTTING. Robbie Fowler. Good. Hollyoaks cast. Bad. After the gig, back at the hotel, I get in the lift. Brett Anderson's pressing the button for ...
Suede: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 22 May 1993
THIS IS happening with our permission. We wanted it to happen. We virtually willed it to happen. Suede are this season's singing saviours because we ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 29 October 1994
Dartmoor, Devon, and the mist-shrouded figure wrapped in a Victorian great-coat playing the role of Flashman can only be BRETT ANDERSON. But how is Housewife ...
Brett Anderson & Morrissey: Suedegate
Comment by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, May 1993
Does this magazine print deliberate lies? Well actually no, we don't ...
Report and Interview by Siân Pattenden, Select, December 1994
What happens when a quintet of indie deities meet the locus of teen-lust that is Take That? Will they cop off? Will they agree to ...
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Select, January 1995
For 18-year-old A-level dodger RICHARD OAKES from Dorset, opportunity knocks! (in the person of SUEDE) ...
Suede: "Nothing Can Stop Us Now"
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 24 September 1994
When Bernard Butler left SUEDE, many assumed it was all over. Far from it. On the eve of the release of the long-awaited Dog Man ...
Suede: What's a Nice Band Like You Doing in a Field Like This?
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 29 August 1992
Since we scooped the lot and put SUEDE on the cover of MM back in April, the world has started falling at their feet. SIMON ...
Suede: Virgin Megastore, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 14 September 1996
UP FOR IT ...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 18 January 1997
Last year's resurrection of SUEDE was almost as impressive a Lazarus job as the Manics' — a Number One album, two hit singles, and the ...
Suede: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992
PRETENTIOUS? CHAMOIS? ...
Suede: The Best New Band In America?
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 19 June 1993
SUEDE have already proved themselves in the UK, both critically and commercially. The next step is for the fab four to cross the Atlantic and ...
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, June 1993
Britains new white-hot hope brings its liberated sexual stance to the States. Are you ready to get Suede? ...
British Rockers Trot Out the Flag
Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 September 1993
LONDON — In rock-and-roll just as in politics, the United States and England have a special relationship. Together, they have dominated global pop. Over the decades, ...
The London Suede: Dog Man Star
Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 27 November 1994
A SUPERGROUP IN Britain, Suede failed to sway America last year with its heady blend of raunch guitar and flamboyant androgyny. ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 9 June 1992
"WHEN WE STARTED the group, we felt that people were starved for music which allowed them to let themselves go," says Brett Anderson, Suede's 24-year-old ...
Neil Tennant, Brett Anderson and Vic Reeves: Twentieth Century Blues
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, April 1997
WHAT A SIMPLY spiffing party. The glint of expensive a jewellery, the waft of exotic perfume, the tinkle of erudite conversation "More cocaine, vicar? Help ...
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...
Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 27 May 1993
England's new Band of the Century hits a glam slam ...
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 5 September 1992
They're grandly egocentric, they're glad to be fey, they think they're God's gift — and they might be right. Heaven knows, they're visceral now, and ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, May 1993
BEFORE ALL this took off, Brett Anderson, Suede's 25-year-old singer, would gloomily tick off each passing birthday as another year gone without his appearing on ...
Bark Psychosis: Suede: Dog Man Star (Nude) ****
Review by Stuart Maconie, Select, November 1994
Introducing the ban… Oh, too late! But rejoice! Brett and co have made high drama out of their crisis. ...
Live Review by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 29 January 1996
Snarling back on to the scene ...
Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, September 1996
You've heard the rumours. Now it's time to face the facts. After an absence of two years, Suede are rising from the ashes to return ...
Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 1 May 1999
Loaf-fi Allstars! ...
Tape Heads: Ed Buller meets Tony Visconti
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 12 March 1994
While even the most basic recordings get increasingly hi-tech, many modern producers are still searching for the vibey sounds of yesteryear. In the first of ...
Suede: Introducing the band techs
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 4 March 1995
Behind every guitar hero, there's a guitar tech sorting out his inputs from his outputs. TOM DOYLE meets the men who help put Suede on ...
Suede: Head Music (Nude NUDE14CD)
Review by Tom Doyle, Q, June 1999
No Ch-ch-changes — Standing still isn't always as easy as it looks. ...
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