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Perth Now
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Brett Anderson confesses performing is about creating the ‘illusion of confidence'
Brett Anderson says performing is about creating the 'illusion' of confidence. The Suede frontman made the admission while speaking backstage to the NME ahead of a secret gig at London's Bush Hall which was used to film a live video to go with the band's new single Dancing With the Europeans. He said: 'Playing live is all about confidence – or the illusion of confidence, which is the same thing. 'People don't want to see a stumbling, apologetic performer – they want to see someone who seems to command a sense of magic.' The 56-year-old singer is fronting the fourth single to be taken from Suede's upcoming tenth album Antidepressants, following the release of the tunes Disintegrate, Trance State and the title track from the record. The London performance, held for a crowd of invited fans, was designed to capture the live energy of the new post-punk material. Brett added before the set: 'Hopefully people will go crazy and there will be a stage invasion, and then we'll go home to bed.' Describing the meaning behind Dancing With The Europeans, the singer went on: 'It's a song about connection. I have this phrase: connecting in a disconnected world. I feel as though the 21st Century is a paradox. The more we're connected, the less we're connected.' The song, he added, was inspired by a performance in Spain during a difficult time in his life. Brett added: 'I was going through a bad time personally, and the gig was just amazing. 'You feel like you're bigger than something that's just yourself – you're part of a group of people.' Asked about the audience reaction at the shoot, Brett said: 'What is it about Suede fans that makes them so insane? I don't know! 'The music is about passion. I've always wanted to inspire passion in people. 'The best live music is always incredibly loud or incredibly quiet – nothing in between. 'That's what I try and do with my music. I either go full-on rock, or I get my acoustic guitar and go off-mic and no one can quite hear what I'm saying. 'I quite like those extremes.'
The Irish Sun
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Music fan stunned as she bumps into Britpop legend in Eurostar queue – would you have recognised him?
A MUSIC fan was left stunned after bumping into a Britpop legend in the queue for Eurostar. During the band's heyday, they won a Mercury Music Prize, had three number one albums and eight Top 10 singles among many others. 4 A music fan was left stunned after bumping into a Britpop legend in the queue for Eurostar Credit: Instagram 4 Suede are one of the biggest bands from the Britpop era Credit: Getty 4 Brett Anderson is the band's frontman Credit: Getty In fact, Suede were part of the 'Big Four' in Britpop alongside Oasis, Blur and Pulp. And while Oasis fans are gearing up to see the Gallagher brothers reunite for the first time in decades from tonight, one lucky Britpop fan got some one on one time with Suede frontman Brett Anderson. Taking to Instagram to share a selfie with the 57-year-old singer, the delighted fan wrote: "YOU GUYS I just spent the time in the Eurostar passport/security line talking to BRETT ANDERSON FROM SUEDE who is easily like, top five nicest people I've ever met and also HE LOOKS PERFECT????? "It is 100 DEGREES IN PARIS right now and this MF looks FLAWLESS???? Meanwhile I have sweat stains on every inch of my clothing." Read More on Britpop Indeed, Brett looked suave in a blue open-necked shirt and a pinstripe suit jacket, with his dark hair sweeping across his forehead. The fan added in a further comment: "I SIMPLY MUST COMMENT ON MY OWN POST HERE AND SAY: If a person THIS IMPOSSIBLY HOT can still be nice , nobody else has any excuse." Other music fans were quick to comment, with one writing: "Omg this is so great." Another added: "ONE OF MY FAVORITES EVER!!!!" Most read in Music A third incorporated lyrics from one of Suede's songs as they commented: "Omg a dream come true! [flame emojis] maybe maybe it's the clothes he wears." Suede first formed in 1989 and were branded "The Best New Band in Britain" by Melody Maker in 1992. Liam Gallagher's Zen Retreat: Inside the Rock Legend's Country Estate A year later, their debut self-titled album hit the number one spot on the UK Album Charts and won the Mercury Music Prize. Their other hits include Stay Together, Trash, She's in Fashion and Beautiful Ones. The group disbanded in 2003 before reuniting in 2010 for a series of concerts and have continued to produce new music ever since. Their upcoming tenth album, Antidepressants, is set for release in September. 4 The fan said Brett was super nice Credit: Getty
Scottish Sun
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Music fan stunned as she bumps into Britpop legend in Eurostar queue – would you have recognised him?
The band has a new album coming in September so young Music fan stunned as she bumps into Britpop legend in Eurostar queue – would you have recognised him? Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A MUSIC fan was left stunned after bumping into a Britpop legend in the queue for Eurostar. During the band's heyday, they won a Mercury Music Prize, had three number one albums and eight Top 10 singles among many others. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 A music fan was left stunned after bumping into a Britpop legend in the queue for Eurostar Credit: Instagram 4 Suede are one of the biggest bands from the Britpop era Credit: Getty 4 Brett Anderson is the band's frontman Credit: Getty In fact, Suede were part of the 'Big Four' in Britpop alongside Oasis, Blur and Pulp. And while Oasis fans are gearing up to see the Gallagher brothers reunite for the first time in decades from tonight, one lucky Britpop fan got some one on one time with Suede frontman Brett Anderson. Taking to Instagram to share a selfie with the 57-year-old singer, the delighted fan wrote: "YOU GUYS I just spent the time in the Eurostar passport/security line talking to BRETT ANDERSON FROM SUEDE who is easily like, top five nicest people I've ever met and also HE LOOKS PERFECT????? "It is 100 DEGREES IN PARIS right now and this MF looks FLAWLESS???? Meanwhile I have sweat stains on every inch of my clothing." Indeed, Brett looked suave in a blue open-necked shirt and a pinstripe suit jacket, with his dark hair sweeping across his forehead. The fan added in a further comment: "I SIMPLY MUST COMMENT ON MY OWN POST HERE AND SAY: If a person THIS IMPOSSIBLY HOT can still be nice, nobody else has any excuse." Other music fans were quick to comment, with one writing: "Omg this is so great." Another added: "ONE OF MY FAVORITES EVER!!!!" A third incorporated lyrics from one of Suede's songs as they commented: "Omg a dream come true! [flame emojis] maybe maybe it's the clothes he wears." Suede first formed in 1989 and were branded "The Best New Band in Britain" by Melody Maker in 1992. Liam Gallagher's Zen Retreat: Inside the Rock Legend's Country Estate A year later, their debut self-titled album hit the number one spot on the UK Album Charts and won the Mercury Music Prize. Their other hits include Stay Together, Trash, She's in Fashion and Beautiful Ones. The group disbanded in 2003 before reuniting in 2010 for a series of concerts and have continued to produce new music ever since. Their upcoming tenth album, Antidepressants, is set for release in September.
The Sun
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Music fan stunned as she bumps into Britpop legend in Eurostar queue – would you have recognised him?
A MUSIC fan was left stunned after bumping into a Britpop legend in the queue for Eurostar. During the band's heyday, they won a Mercury Music Prize, had three number one albums and eight Top 10 singles among many others. 4 4 In fact, Suede were part of the 'Big Four' in Britpop alongside Oasis, Blur and Pulp. And while Oasis fans are gearing up to see the Gallagher brothers reunite for the first time in decades from tonight, one lucky Britpop fan got some one on one time with Suede frontman Brett Anderson. Taking to Instagram to share a selfie with the 57-year-old singer, the delighted fan wrote: "YOU GUYS I just spent the time in the Eurostar passport/security line talking to BRETT ANDERSON FROM SUEDE who is easily like, top five nicest people I've ever met and also HE LOOKS PERFECT????? "It is 100 DEGREES IN PARIS right now and this MF looks FLAWLESS???? Meanwhile I have sweat stains on every inch of my clothing." Indeed, Brett looked suave in a blue open-necked shirt and a pinstripe suit jacket, with his dark hair sweeping across his forehead. nice, nobody else has any excuse." Other music fans were quick to comment, with one writing: "Omg this is so great." A third incorporated lyrics from one of Suede's songs as they commented: "Omg a dream come true! [flame emojis] maybe maybe it's the clothes he wears." Suede first formed in 1989 and were branded "The Best New Band in Britain" by Melody Maker in 1992. Liam Gallagher's Zen Retreat: Inside the Rock Legend's Country Estate A year later, their debut self-titled album hit the number one spot on the UK Album Charts and won the Mercury Music Prize. Their other hits include Stay Together, Trash, She's in Fashion and Beautiful Ones. The group disbanded in 2003 before reuniting in 2010 for a series of concerts and have continued to produce new music ever since. Their upcoming tenth album, Antidepressants, is set for release in September. 4
RTÉ News
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
"We're here for Silvermints and No. 6 cigarettes": Oasis hit Dublin in 1994
All roads lead to Cardiff this Friday for the first show of the Oasis reunion tour. But way back in September 1994, the band played their very first Irish show at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin . . . We raided the RTÉ archives for this interview with Noel Gallagher and Bonehead which took place just before that gig "Have you heard the new Suede album? It's bloody Queen, it's pomp rock, it's full of eleven-minute guitar solos. It's rubbish." It's either very strange or it makes all the sense in the world. Noel Gallagher, guitarist and lyricist with Oasis, The Best New Band in Britain (1994), has just delivered a damning critique of Suede, The Best New Band In Britain (1992). Because, as Stakka Bo might say, here we go again. Last year it was Suede and this year it's Oasis. Right? Wrong. Britain hasn't had a band worth frothing about since the demise of The Smiths and, if they did, the media powers that be have either conspired to destroy them (Happy Mondays, Ride) or the bands themselves have self-destructed (The Stone Roses). And, oh yeah, does anyone remember The La's? True they've only just released their debut album Definitely Maybe (Creation Records), but it sounds so good you can't but agree that Oasis are set to confound everybody by transcending the "scene"-orientated British music industry that's put paid to the careers of countless UK bands. As Noel's younger brother Liam sings on Cigarettes and Alcohol, "is it my imagination or have I finally found something worth living for?" "We might play our music to a load of nuns in Cork but we're not sellin' out, we're playing our music to people." - Bonehead of Oasis Noel, like Liam, has eyebrows resembling two furry caterpillars halted in mid-samba across his forehead. He scowls under a baggy fringe (circa 1990) and joins Bonehead, aka Paul Arthurs, in a brief discussion about their Irish roots. "My grandparents are from Mayo," says Noel, sipping a fresh gin and tonic in Dublin's Berkeley Court Hotel. "I come over 'ere to indulge my love of Tayto, Silvermints and No. 6 cigarettes." Oasis' notoriety in the run-up to the release of Definitely Maybe has been based on four hit singles and more importantly, it seemed, their love of rock 'n' roll hi-jinks. They've started fights on ferries, they've trashed hotel rooms and, most lovable of all, Liam (22) and Noel (27) have turned sibling rivalry into an art form by beating each other up on a regular basis. Usually in front of the music press. "All that stuff about us fighting all the time was alright," says Noel, his blackeye having receded, "until you get smacked in the face. You get a headache but all the girls give you love and sympathy." Before Oasis, the last time we could get justifiably excited about British pop music was Madchester at the turn of the decade. Noel and Bonehead dismiss that era, praising only The Stone Roses. "The Stone Roses were good, The Happy Mondays were alright," shrugs Noel. "The rest of it was crap. The Stone Roses could have become a great band, if they'd only got out of the studio, The Happy Mondays were a good band, they were never a great band." Noel would rather see Oasis' lineage stretching back to the Fab Four and, in particular, to John Lennon's special style of lyrical doggerel. The cover of Oasis' most recent single, Live Forever, even goes so far as to feature a black and white photo of the house in Liverpool Lennon lived in with his Aunt Mimi. "John Lennon is probably the biggest single influence on our songwriting," says Noel. "He was part of the greatest band in the world, ever, and he was probably the best single songwriter ever. It was him and McCartney, but Lennon wrote the best songs. I think the girls liked Paul McCartney and the boys liked John Lennon and, being boys, John Lennon is king. "I don't know if Our Kid is gonna become a raving Kurt Cobain smack head. Anything could happen, I could walk out tonight and get splattered across the road by a bus. And that's the beauty of it, you can't predict what's gonna happen" - Noel Gallagher "That fantasy of standing on stage playing guitars is part of our make-up and again it goes back to The Beatles," continues Noel. "That was my first vision of a band and it's the same for a lot of people. There is something inspiring about a load of young guys playing music in a band, whereas a lot of young girls doing it doesn't have a lot of appeal. You get a lot of girl bands but they don't have male groupies." What would you say if The Rolling Stones asked you to support them? "We'd say bloody hell, yeah!" says Bonehead. "You've gotta be ambitious if you're in a band. If a band like The Rolling Stones, who are gonna play in front of two million people on a tour, offers you a support slot you don't say no. "You've gotta do the best for yourself. Supporting the Stones wouldn't be selling out, selling out is signing to a big record company who start telling you what to do. We might play our music to a load of nuns in Cork but we're not sellin' out, we're playing our music to people." Oasis are trying to re-create the idea that rock 'n' roll is fun, that it has little to do with the doom-laden lyrics of Suede's Brett Anderson. "The Manic Street Preachers are dour intellectuals and nobody knows what the bloody hell they're on about," says Bonehead. "As for Brett Anderson, going on about meeting you under a nuclear sky and all that crap! Our answer to that is all you need is cigarettes and alcohol." Bonehead and Noel care little about the fate of their fellow British bands - the Suedes, Stone Roses and Primal Screams - who deliver classic albums and then let something go horribly wrong, whether it's a guitarist leaving or winning The Mercury Music Prize. "I'm sure if you asked those bands who were in our position back then what they thought of that, they'd say . . . well, I don't know what they'd say but I'll say now. I don't know. I don't know if Bonehead's gonna leave, I don't know if Our Kid is gonna become a raving Kurt Cobain smack head. "Anything could happen, I could walk out tonight and get splattered across the road by a bus. And that's the beauty of it, you can't predict what's gonna happen. People ask us are we gonna be around in five years; are we gonna make a second album. Wait and see, we don't know." Best new band in Britain? It's too early to tell but barring ODs, musical differences and errant double-decker buses, there's something about these Manchester rogues that should see them enjoy a long and brilliant recording career. Déjà vu has never sounded better.
