Suede

when is LOVE AND POISON coming out on dvd then do we think?

I'm kinda surprised the website is still up. Did Mat, Richard and Simon just decide to retire and relax?

Underrated "Filmstar" moment -- that shift between the NIN/Zeppelin crunch on the verses and the none-more-psych tripped-out chorus. If you will.

aces. brett in a shirt n tie, first performance of 'by the sea'...sweet.

Also, I faithfully bought all the editions of all the CD singles, right the way up to, and including, Positivity.

When I did my UK trip to celebrate Tom's wedding in 2003, I was invited, thanks to me running the mailing list, to stop by Suede's management office, Interceptor. This was after "Attitude" came out but just before the singles comp got released and, subsequently, the band decided to call it quits.

The band weren't there but Charlie Charlton, David Barnett and Ben Myers were -- all very good folks -- though I think there were a few low-key tensions that probably made sense a few weeks later. Anyway, while there they invited me to rifle through all the releases as I wished -- I had pretty much everything but this way I was able to pick up the most recent singles and the non-"London" Suede editions of most of the albums, rather handily.

I was listening to the fanclub only See You in the Next Life as well, released when the band wrapped it up, and I do love the unlisted bonus -- it's the full string arrangement from "Still Life," minus Brett or the rest of the band. V. dramatic.

Ha, for me it was (unranked outside the top 10), 4th, 2nd, 6th, and I didn't bother with "A New Morning" either.

On the most overlooked early bsides is Bernard's rocker "Painted People." I think it was on the Animal Nitrate single.

Like others I was not interested when A New Morning came out. About a year after the release I found the import for real cheap and bought it. I really isn't that bad and was expecting something much worse. The problem was, just like the Tears, I rarely played it and don't have a complete evaluation of it. When you loaded the CD into your computer you could go to this web site and hear the original Tony Hoffer version of this album that the band aborted.

(2004-present) Post-break activity
(Tears stuff chopped)

Alex Lee played a short set with Patrick Duff at the Tsunami Appeal Gig at the Bristol Carling Academy on Saturday 19th February and continued to tour with him. He now plays guitar and keyboard with Placebo. Neil Codling has toured as keyboardist for pop singer Natalie Imbruglia and has played as a duo called Barry O'Niel compromising him and Harriet Cawley. Gilbert is currently the drummer for international band Futon, based out of Bangkok, Thailand while Osman plays for the U.K. rock band Mista Brown.

Brett Anderson also has confirmed that he has a self-titled solo album planned for early 2007.

His participation sounds somewhat considered.

dog man star + bernard tracks on sci-fi lullabies unquestionably >>>>>>>>>> all other brit-pop but what the hell is up with the first album? the production/mix is so flat and shit.. it boggles the mind as to why/how its b-sides sound so stellar! i only really like "animals nitrate" and "the next life" on the thing anyways..

i have visions of a rollicking extended full-band version of "the living dead" possibly with the "if i was the wife of an acrobat.." part as a refrain/chorus or something

also repping for billy mckenkie while dissing brent anderson = dud

Both names wrong. Good work.

Reforming! (minus Bernard obvs)

Beyond that one-off benefit gig?

Nothing concrete so far. But i bet there'll be a small tour @ least.

I thought they would give it a few more years before reforming, especially as Brett has finally just put a really good solo album.

Mr. Butler wishes them well.

Quick note for all -- friend of mine is flying in to London for the reunion and would like someone to go with on the 20th. Drop me a line if there's interest!

My memories of a lunch.

Brett I remember looking at the menu a bit with a very, very considered air. He looked…not totally unapproachable but definitely knowing that yes, he was the star, or at least a star. We chatted for a short bit after the meal was over and I remember him adding a drawing of his cat Fluffington to the promo photo of him sitting in his flat, so that’s a nice touch.

looooooooooool

So the new 2 cd Best Of is out in a week or so. Biggest non festival UK gig ever at the O2 in December.
Artwork for the best of looks like this:
http://artcritical.com/DavidCohen/2008/images/peyton-september.jpg

Tracklist like this:
Disc One:

'Animal Nitrate'
'Beautiful Ones'
'Trash'
'Filmstar'
'Metal Mickey'
'New Generation'
'So Young'
'Wild Ones'
'Drowners'
'Stay Together'
'Lazy'
'Everything Will Flow'
'We Are The Pigs'
'Can't Get Enough'
'Electricity'
'Obsessions'
'She's In Fashion'
'Saturday Night'

Disc Two:

'Pantomime Horse'
'My Insatiable One'
'Killing Of A Flashboy'
'This Hollywood Life'
'Europe Is Our Playground'
'My Dark Star'
'Sleeping Pills'
'By The Sea'
'She'
'Heroine'
'The Living Dead'
'To The Birds'
'The Big Time'
'The Two Of Us'
'Asphalt World'
'Still Life'
'The Next Life'

Good job of compiling the hits on 1 disc and other good stuff on the other. Should have 'Moving' on it mind but hey ho.

like THIS rather

http://artcritical.com/DavidCohen/2008/images/peyton-september.jpg

'Positivity', a top 20 single, gets ignored. Presumably as the fans only bought it for the b-sides.

Disc Two:

'Pantomime Horse'
'My Insatiable One'
'Killing Of A Flashboy'
'This Hollywood Life' Daddy's Speeding
'Europe Is Our Playground'
'My Dark Star'
'Sleeping Pills'
'By The Sea'
'She' High Rising
'Heroine'
'The Living Dead'
'To The Birds'
'The Big Time'
'The Two Of Us' 'He's Dead'
'Asphalt World'
'Still Life'
'The Next Life'

would be pretty much my ideal Suede

or maybe like just Sci-Fi Lullabies Disc One

I mean, it's a great selection but it needs 'He's Dead' and 'High Rising' so very much

b-b--b-but "Sleeping Pills" is ker-lassic

gonna plead ignorance on those three in the middle I've nixed - DMS, SFL and parts of the s/t are my jam wrt this band

wait 'sleeping pills' is on the s/t

ok reinstated

'Daddy's Speeding' is so great.

^^^also this, it's the stealth highlight of DMS

it kinda is the most evocative of all the songs on that album