En-ger-land, 1993. One nation shivering beneath the slate-grey Victorian shadow of Conservative rule for a fourteenth year and now led by the dullest, limpest Prime Minister in history, John Major. A time with no heroes, no Internet, no iPods, and where most UK homes only had four TV channels. O the poverty of dreams! This wasn’t the Age of Aquarius, but the Age of beige blandness and Kevin “Nice Slacks” Costner. Bryan “Not Ryan” Adams had recently held Number 1 hostage for 16 bloody weeks—several lifetimes in pop—with his Robin Hood gushfest and Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard soundtrack was fulfilling its malevolent masterplan to brainwash an eventual 44 million zombified punters. If it wasn’t Costner-courting criminality, it was toytown techno (“Ebeneezer Goode”) or the waiting room slow death of Wet Wet Wet and Charles & Eddie.
For the youthful musical outlaws, the weeklies were still our Bible—NME and Melody Maker. Every week they’d be devoured and raided in a search for a new saviour. Yes, there was a resistance—the incendiary Manic Street Preachers, those merry pranksters dubbed the KLF, the melon twisting Primal Scream—but most of the real big hitters were American. England’s bedroom anarchists were fed up of waiting for the second Stone Roses album to save us. We’d waited long enough. We wanted a riot of our own. Enter stage left, Suede…
According to Wikipedia, a:
media frenzy...surrounded the group
However, their first single The Drowners only peaked at 46, their media image is stronger than their commercial performance?
ARTICLES:
- "They're ordinary, that's what makes them glam" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/20/suede-brits-classic-interview
- Interview on Gigwise with Brett Anderson on Night Thoughts etc.
- NME report on their 2010 reunion concert
- NME Q +A with Brett Anderson about most recent album
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/05/brett-anderson-suede-interview
- Reviews on albums: quietus, bbc, allmusic
- A review I found on the Wiki references, there are a lot of useful articles linked in the related stories section
- http://thequietus.com/articles/03949-suede-biographer-david-barnett-recalls-coming-up
- http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/04/sex-pistols-suede-danger-good-support-band/
- TBA: Rave reviews on Night Thoughts.
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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 ...
AUDIO
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 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)
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Observer, The, June 1992
When we started the group, we felt that people were starved for music which allowed them to let themselves go...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 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 singer, Brett Anderson, a potential superstar. Tuesday's gig was jammed with industry bodies anxious to be in at the start.
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 ...
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, March 1993
A VERY BRETTISH COUP ...
Comment by Sheryl Garratt, Face, The, May 1993
Does this magazine print deliberate lies? Well actually no, we don't ...
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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, June 1993
Britain’s new white-hot hope brings its liberated sexual stance to the States. Are you ready to get Suede? ...
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, January 1994
Figgy Star Lust ...
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 ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, The, November 1994
A SUPERGROUP IN Britain, Suede failed to sway America last year with its heady blend of raunch guitar and flamboyant androgyny. ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998
PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, Times, The, 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 ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, 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 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 ...
Comment by Luke Turner, Quietus, The, 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 at the time, argues that the current canonisation of Britpop is as musically and socially conservative as 1960s nostalgia.
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