Suede: Meet the New Boy
Paul Moody, NME, 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 Grammers new boy RICHARD OAKES copying with the role of Tom Brown? And whats this about SUEDE rockin out, or even, gasp, going funky? PAUL MOODY writes his lines.
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