Brett Anderson
The 50 best albums of 2022
In an unprecedented year of change in music, albums of all genres confounded expectations – from vulnerable rap to pop with gravitas. Listen your way to our No 1 album of the year
Safi Bugel, Shaad D'Souza and Laura Snapes
23, Dec, 2022 @9:59 AM
Suede review – a sensory assault for classic LP Coming Up
Brett Anderson climbs monitors and vaults up to high notes in an energetic, irresistible performance of their 1996 album
Malcolm Jack
04, Nov, 2021 @12:11 PM
On my radar: Brett Anderson's cultural highlights
The Suede frontman on his latest musical discoveries, the brilliance of Michael Clark and the enduring appeal of mudlarking by the Thames
Brett Anderson
20, Feb, 2021 @3:00 PM
Suede: how the androgynous indie pioneers gave me pride in my bisexuality
Continuing our series on the artists who had a formative influence on our music writers, Luke Turner relives the naughty, nocturnal, decadent thrills of sex à la Suede
Luke Turner
25, Jan, 2021 @3:00 PM
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson review – sharp and sensitive
Band dynamics and debauchery share centre stage in the singer’s sharp, honest account of Suede’s rise and fall
Miranda Sawyer
07, Oct, 2019 @7:59 AM
The 10 biggest books of autumn 2019
Over 400 hardbacks hit shops today, including Zadie Smith’s Grand Union and Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth, on what publishers have dubbed Super Thursday
Alison Flood
03, Oct, 2019 @5:00 AM
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson – a cold eye on Suede’s glory years
‘We overdid it.’ In the book he swore he’d never write, the singer-songwriter reflects on debauchery, the limits of his talent and his band’s best songs
Toby Lichtig
27, Sep, 2019 @6:30 AM
Suede review – more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration
Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance
Ian Gittins
14, Oct, 2018 @10:51 AM
Brett Anderson Q&A: ‘I always wanted to make my own tribe’
The Suede frontman on fatherhood, his new memoir, and being part of ‘the longest overnight sensation ever’
Miranda Sawyer. Portrait by Pal Hansen
25, Feb, 2018 @9:00 AM
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson review – a memoir not just for Suede fans
A rich evocation of the singer’s youth, parents and life in a council house
Sukhdev Sandhu
15, Feb, 2018 @7:30 AM
The Guardian view on Brexit and publishing: a hardcore problem | Editorial
Editorial: London book fair has shown how upbeat the literary world can be – and how worried our cultural businesses have become at the thought of losing old certainties
Editorial
17, Mar, 2017 @7:01 PM
Brett Anderson: 'Reforming has given us an opportunity to correct the mistakes of youth'
At a preview screening of Night Thoughts, the Suede frontman talks about the challenges of producing their new film and why the band chose to give full creative control to rock photographer Roger Sargent
Mike Pattenden
22, Jan, 2016 @7:40 AM
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