The London Suede

BIOGRAPHY

That Autofiction is The London Suede’s punk album, a record that crackles with the sort of exuberant fire familiar to anyone who has seen the band live in recent years, should come as no surprise given the nature of its creation. As The London Suede started rehearsing some of the most punchy and direct songs of their career, they decided to go back to basics and become like a new band. In a move that sent them right back to their early days as an unknown London group, Brett Anderson, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling schlepped to a rehearsal studio in deserted Kings Cross to collect a key, hump their own gear, set up and start playing. After the trilogy of post-reformation albums that cemented The London Suede’s reputation not only as a band who changed the 90s musical landscape forever, but still a dynamic creative force, the desire was to enter the “fourth phase” of their existence with a record that was, according to Brett Anderson quoting the 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short”. [FULL BIO]