Brett anderson suede biography
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Brett Anderson:
Suede in his direction
By his own admission, Brett Anderson has never been a big fan of rock biographies. “There’s a couple of exceptions, but generally I think they’re poorly written and underwhelming and they seem to be very formulaic, because band’s careers are formulaic,” says the Suede singer, casually perched on a sofa in a quiet corner of an upmarket Manchester hotel.
“Every band starts with struggle. If they achieve success, that cusps into excess and then there’s disintegration – the band splits up and there’s a sense of rebirth. It’s a very predictable life and Suede weren’t immune from it. We fell into those traps.”
Formed in London in the early 1990s, Suede stood out as something different, artily aloof and dangerously exotic right from the start. Famously hailed “the best new band in Britain” by Melody Maker before they’d released a note of music, the group’s potent mix of snarling glam rock and songs about grimy bedsits, lonely housewives and illicit liaisons propelled its four members – Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bassist Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert – to the top of the charts and laid Britpop’s foundations.
Butler left the group in 1994, replaced by Richard Oakes, and the band went on to release five more albums, including two
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Brett Anderson
Pop musician
Brett Anderson is an English pop musician born in 1967. He was lead singer with Suede, recording the hit albums Suede (1993, #1 in the UK), Dog Man Star (1994, #3) and Coming Up (1996, another #1). He was one of the foremost figures of Brit Pop (the press called him a cross between Bowie and Morrissey). He underwent the predictable stages of stardom and addiction, and got through both. Although Suede’s tempestuous history ended in 2003, Anderson has continued to record: in 2004 and 2005 with The Tears, alongside ex-Suede member Bernard Butler, and since 2006 solo, with four albums to his name. In 2010, Suede got back together and have since made three new discs, the latest being the brooding The Blue Hour (2018), a bold reinvention of the group that has brought them great reviews. A new documentary for Sky Arts, The Insatiable Ones, has brought growing interest in the group. In 2018, Anderson published Coal Black Mornings, magnificent black-and-white memoires that end with the rise of Suede.
The biographies of participants in Primera Persona are written by Kiko Amat and Miqui Otero, the festival’s directors.
Primera Persona 2019
Autobiographic Live Sessions: Tragicomic Monologues, Pop Music, Theatre and Narrative
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