Brett Anderson

Paraorchestra: Death Songbook live review – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends

Charles Hazlewood’s boundary-breaking ensemble guide the Suede singer and special guests through an elegiac evening grown out of the pandemic

Kitty Empire

27, Apr, 2024 @1:00 PM

Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood: Death Songbook review – a vivid time capsule

Recorded live, this pandemic-era collaboration covering songs on death and loss by Depeche Mode, Mercury Rev, Suede and more occasionally transcends its source material

Damien Morris

19, Apr, 2024 @10:30 AM

‘I wanted to evoke a violent, sexual world’: how Suede made Animal Nitrate

‘When it went Top 10, the Radio 1 bigwigs got in touch and asked us what the song was about. They didn’t want another Frankie Goes to Hollywood moment’

Interviews by Dave Simpson

03, Jul, 2023 @1:06 PM

Suede’s Mat Osman: ‘The biggest difference between Richard and me is that he has no interest in being cool’

The bassist and author talks about artistic ambition, sibling dynamics - and how being on tour inspired his riotous new novel, The Ghost Theatre

Xan Brooks

29, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM

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

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