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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 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," says Brett Anderson, Suede's 24-year-old ...
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 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 ...
Brett Anderson & Morrissey: Suedegate
Comment by Sheryl Garratt, Face, The, May 1993
Does this magazine print deliberate lies? Well actually no, we don't ...
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 ...
Suede: Brixton Academy, London
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
Britains new white-hot hope brings its liberated sexual stance to the States. Are you ready to get Suede? ...
Suede: The Best New Band In America?
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 ...
Bernard Butler: Gentleman And Player
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, July 1993
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 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 Paul Moody, NME, 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 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 ...
Neil Tennant, Brett Anderson and Vic Reeves: Twentieth Century Blues
Interview by Stephen Dalton, NME, 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review by David Cavanagh, MOJO, June 1999
HEAD MUSIC is at once Suede's escape from their glam-pop confines and their belated arrival at the late '90s technological party. They've torn away at ...
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. ...
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