Suede

Well, he did usually sport a builder's crack, and not to great effect.

Now he looks like Steve Dallas, at least that's funny...

I'm not really overly concerned or critical about the lyrics because they're supposed to be cryptic, OTT and rub people the wrong way. Bernard Butler really poncey and a bit phobic about Suede lifestyle things but he was the one I saw in Hampstead walking away from Diana funeral motorcade passage so perhaps secret royalist/conservative?

The difference between Suede decadence and Ritzy decadence is the former is queerish and the latter reads no books and loves no art.

I knew there was something weird about him, this makes sense (and is very funny)...

They met cos: Brett and Justine were at architecture college and togeth-ah for that duration and decided to form band with Mat, Brett's best friend. Drummers were tried, including Mike Joyce from the Smiths, then they got Simon and stuck with him. Bernerd was thrown up by a Melody Maker advert. Rule A is that the last one in on the advert is always the first one chucked. Ally, you won't like this but they wrote a great big long letter to Nick asking for their great hero Momus' verdict on their stuff; he wrote a sniffy one back saying they were so mediocre they'd be massive. Justine left band after leaving Brett for Demon Allbran.

Justine should've just stayed in Suede, she'd probably be better off.

But I'm paying for it now, just bringing this up has placed unsavory mental images in my head.

The Drowners
My Insatiable One
Metal Mickey
Animal Nitrate
So Young
Stay Together (edit)
We Are the Pigs
The Wild Ones
New Generation
Trash
Beautiful Ones
Saturday Night (edit)
Lazy
Film Star
The Chemistry Between Us
Electricity
She's In Fashion
Everything Will Flow
Can't Get Enough

(80:09, this one was easy to compile as a hits survey. the non-single tracks are my essentials - and remember if you disagree, post yours!)

I guess it's not that much of a surprise, but I just randomly put on the latter and it hit me like a falling anvil.

As it happened, I brought the singles disc with me to work. Revival time!

Heck no. A noted fan is one Mr. John Darnellye of the Goats of Mountain, who wrote a wonderful essay on the album in one of the last print editions of Last Train to Jakarta.

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.

Ugh, people who stand down the front and film the whole gig on their phones are a PLAGUE and should be taken out back and shot (and also are completely contrary to Suede's entire message which is 'put down your phone and live in the moment')

BUT LAST NIGHT WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. Old men at the top of their game! The lights went down and this faint ominous thudding started, got louder and louder, really menacing sounding in a kind of We Are The Pigs way. Until the band came out and it morphed into Disintegrate - which is absolutely apocalyptic live! Those moments where the thrash of the music stops and Brett gets the entire hall to sing 'come down and disintegrate with me!' - their lyrics often look meaningless when written down, but the way he sings them and gets 1000s of people to chant along is something really powerful.

Good mixture of new material, Ver Hitz!!! and some real deep cuts. (Crackhead! Killing of a Flash Boy! This Time) I will never not sing along to Trash or Metal Mickey.

They really need to get Brett a cordless mic for the moments when he decides to go walkabout. It's fun that he still does it, and those moments of personal connection feel so meaningful. (he is still very, very cute when he smiles that little boy smile.) But I was right in the 4th row and that cable gets really really dangerous when it starts snaking around through the seats.

It's cheeky tho, that they've nicked the Crass logo for their new T-shirt design. I kept doing double takes seeing extremely un-Crass looking people wearing what looked like Crass T-shirts. (I know Brett is a huge fan, but there's not much of an overlap in the fanbase.)

The Fash had mostly dispersed by the time I got to the SBC apartment from a few straggling drunks dressed up like football louts

But it still felt weirdly Suede in an odd way, picking your way through a litter of broken England flags to get to the gig

Extraordinary again tonight.