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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Interviews by Dave Simpson

‘I wanted to evoke a violent, sexual world’: how Suede made Animal Nitrate

‘It’s not our biggest hit but it’s probably the song most synonymous with Suede – the way we looked and the seedy glamour’ … the band in 1993 (from left, Mat Osman, Bernard Butler, Brett Anderson and Simon Gilbert.)
‘It’s not our biggest hit but it’s probably the song most synonymous with Suede – the way we looked and the seedy glamour’ … the band in 1993 (from left, Mat Osman, Bernard Butler, Brett Anderson and Simon Gilbert.) Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images

Brett Anderson, singer, songwriter

We did our first gig in 1989 around the time of baggy and shoegaze. When you’re young and impressionable, you want to sound like whatever’s fashionable, but we weren’t musically competent enough to be one of those bands. We carried on rehearsing three times a week and playing to three people, and slowly we got really good at being Suede, something with its own identity.

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