Although the creation of The Tears seemed to excite the potential of a Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler reconciliation it became apparent that them talking to each other was more exciting than their new band’s music. Whatever magic they dug up with their musical collaboration in Suede, it was certainly gone by the formation of The Tears. You can hear […]
Bowie has gone but his children remain as Suede preview new songs and videos in advance of their latest album, Night Thoughts released later this month. Pale Snow is a moody short interlude, a rather elegant tune with a rather meaningless visual, unless it means something in relation to the feature film (directed by Roger Sargent) […]
The Drowners EP came out in 1992 and at that time I was playing with All About Eve and spending a lot of time back in England. We listened to that EP 1000 times, all three tracks, The Drowners, To The Birds and My Insatiable One – it was always getting another spin. The guitar was […]
One could say that this was Justine Frischmann’s homage to Wire. Elastica’s Connection was one of the songs of the moment in 1994 as Britpop became the buzz word. Originally a member of Suede forming the band with Brett Anderson, she parted ways and formed Elastica in 1992, selling over a million copies of the […]