Manic Street Preachers / Suede review – co-headliners bring out the best in each other
More than merely a mutual love-in, this tour finds the two bands – and longterm friends – spurring each other on to be provocative and potent
March 2024
Books interview
Mat Osman: ‘I wanted to write about a dirty, dangerous, working-class London’
The Suede bassist and author on writing without a safety net, terrifying himself for his next novel and which of the Thursday Murder Club books – by his brother Richard – he likes best
December 2023
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Suede review – no mere nostalgia act
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’
May 2023
The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman review – teenage wastrels with ambition to burn
Book of the day
The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman review – a pacy Elizabethan adventure
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
September 2022
Suede: Autofiction review – a back-to-basics triumph
Suede review – secret gig as Crushed Kid is extremely loud and incredibly close
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
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
February 2020
On my radar
On my radar: Mat Osman’s cultural highlights
Suede’s bassist and now novelist on TV vampires, German supper-club jazz and the Soho haunt where Hogwarts meets hard liquor
October 2019
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson review – sharp and sensitive
Band dynamics and debauchery share centre stage in the singer’s sharp, honest account of Suede’s rise and fall
April 2019
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
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
September 2018
Suede: The Blue Hour review – the seamier side of Somerset
Suede: The Blue Hour review – a wild ride into a rural nightmare
July 2018
Ranked
Every Mercury prize-winning album – ranked!
Following the announcement of this year’s nominees, we run the rule over the 26 albums that have earned the crown, from Klaxons and James Blake to M People and Talvin Singh
