Brett Anderson loves going mudlarking with his 13-year-old son on the banks of the Thames, sifting through the bones, pipes and detritus of past centuries washed up on the river’s unforgetting shores. “You find oyster shells down by where the Globe is,” says Suede’s urbane frontman, no stranger to digging pearls of great beauty from life’s dirt. “In Elizabethan times they used to throw oyster shells at the performers if they didn’t like them.”
Keep your oysters for date night; the only thing getting thrown at Suede’s forthcoming Southbank takeover season will be purple-scented plaudits. To mark the release of their 10th album, Antidepressants, London’s premier alt-rock sophisticates — both the godfathers and down-thumbing Caesars of Britpop — are to play a varied array of shows at the Southbank Centre this month, from full rock gigs to orchestral evenings and intimate acoustic sets.
