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Brett Anderson

Thursday 3rd October 2019

Venue
Christ Church, Julian Road, Bath, Somerset BA1 2RH
Doors Open
7.30pm
Start Time
8pm
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Suede began by treading the familiar jobbing route of London’s emerging new 1990s indie bands – gigs at ULU, the Camden Powerhaus and the Old Trout in Windsor – and the dispiriting experience of playing a set to an audience of one. But in these halcyon days, their potential was undeniable. Brett Anderson’s creative partnership with guitarist Bernard Butler exposed a unique and brilliant hybrid of lyric and sound; together they were a luminescent team – burning brightly and creating some of the era’s most revered songs and albums.

In Afternoons with the Blinds drawn, Brett unflinchingly explores his relationship with addiction, heartfelt in the regret that early musical bonds were severed, and clear-eyed on his youthful persona. ‘As a young man . . . I oscillated between morbid self-reflection and vainglorious narcissism’ he writes. His honesty, sharply self-aware and articulate, make this a compelling autobiography, and a brilliant insight into one of the most significant bands of the last quarter century.