Paraorchestra: Death Songbook live review – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends
Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood: Death Songbook review – a vivid time capsule
July 2023
How we made
‘I wanted to evoke a violent, sexual world’: how Suede made Animal Nitrate
‘When it went Top 10, the Radio 1 bigwigs got in touch and asked us what the song was about. They didn’t want another Frankie Goes to Hollywood moment’
April 2023
Suede’s Mat Osman: ‘The biggest difference between Richard and me is that he has no interest in being cool’
The bassist and author talks about artistic ambition, sibling dynamics - and how being on tour inspired his riotous new novel, The Ghost Theatre
December 2022
Best music 2022
The 50 best albums of 2022
In an unprecedented year of change in music, albums of all genres confounded expectations – from vulnerable rap to pop with gravitas. Listen your way to our No 1 album of the year
November 2021
Suede review – a sensory assault for classic LP Coming Up
Brett Anderson climbs monitors and vaults up to high notes in an energetic, irresistible performance of their 1996 album
February 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Brett Anderson's cultural highlights
The Suede frontman on his latest musical discoveries, the brilliance of Michael Clark and the enduring appeal of mudlarking by the Thames
January 2021
The fandom that made me
Suede: how the androgynous indie pioneers gave me pride in my bisexuality
Continuing our series on the artists who had a formative influence on our music writers, Luke Turner relives the naughty, nocturnal, decadent thrills of sex à la Suede
October 2019
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson review – sharp and sensitive
The 10 biggest books of autumn 2019
September 2019
Book of the day
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson – a cold eye on Suede’s glory years
‘We overdid it.’ In the book he swore he’d never write, the singer-songwriter reflects on debauchery, the limits of his talent and his band’s best songs
October 2018
Suede review – more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration
Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance
February 2018
Brett Anderson reads an extract from his new memoir, Coal Black Mornings
Brett Anderson Q&A: ‘I always wanted to make my own tribe’
Brett Anderson: ‘I had started my musical journey wanting to be the quiet one at the back’
Book of the day
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson review – a memoir not just for Suede fans
March 2017
The Guardian view on Brexit and publishing: a hardcore problem
Editorial: London book fair has shown how upbeat the literary world can be – and how worried our cultural businesses have become at the thought of losing old certainties
January 2016
Brett Anderson: 'Reforming has given us an opportunity to correct the mistakes of youth'
Suede's Brett Anderson: ‘There's a balance between sounding like yourself and not being a self-parody'
October 2014
10 of the best
Suede: 10 of the best
We remember when it was all council blocks and drug-addled crones having bad sex around here … to mark 20 years since Dog Man Star, here are 10 classics from Suede
