http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/index.php Thu, 17 May 2012 05:26:30 +0200 Phorum 5.2.15a http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220337,220337#msg-220337 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220337,220337#msg-220337
[www.youtube.com]

Beautiful of course :)]]> 82 Brett Anderson Brett Anderson Fri, 11 May 2012 23:52:12 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220306,220306#msg-220306 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220306,220306#msg-220306
The most eagle-eyed amongst you may have been numbed with excitement to discover that Brett has made another list of what he has been taking into his brain and that that list has been made public in the 'CULTURE' section of this very website.

In case you wanted to investigate further and make a judgement on the sanity of the selections on such a list (judgements could include: "Hmmm...That looks really good", "What is he thinking?" or, simply, "Well, i don't know....maybe...") you can follow these links in order to quench your ignorance...

Enjoy the below

Didz





Listening


Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts

[www.youtube.com]



Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

[www.youtube.com]




E.M.A – California

[www.youtube.com]




LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

[www.youtube.com]



HK119 –Spring

[www.youtube.com]



The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

[www.youtube.com]



Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hyena

[www.youtube.com]



We Fell To Earth - We Fell To Earth

[www.youtube.com]



Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk/ Mirror Moves

[www.youtube.com]





Reading

The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

[www.nytimes.com]



The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber

[thehungryreader.wordpress.com]



Essays in Love - Alain De Botton

[rohitgupta14.wordpress.com]







Watching


Carnage - Roman Polanski
[www.youtube.com]


Sarah's Key - Gilles Pacquet – Brenner
[www.youtube.com]


Tyrranosaur - Paddy Considine
[www.youtube.com]


Kill List - Ben Wheatley
[www.youtube.com]


The Debt - John Madden
[www.youtube.com]


Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin
[www.youtube.com]


In a Better World - Susanne Bier
[www.youtube.com]


Headhunters - Morten Tyldom
[www.youtube.com]


Snowtown - Justin Kurzel
[www.youtube.com]


Wreckers - D.R. Hood
[www.youtube.com]


The Silence - Baran Bo Odar
[www.youtube.com]





Visiting

S.C.U.M - Bush Hall

[www.youtube.com] (live)

[www.youtube.com] (official video)



Picasso and Modern British Art - Tate Britain

[www.tate.org.uk]



Cliveden House – Berkshire
[en.wikipedia.org]



Pet Shop Boys' the Most Incredible Thing - Saddler's Wells
[www.thisislondon.co.uk]



Nicholas Nickelby - The Guildhall Theatre Barbican
[www.gsmd.ac.uk]



Paul McCartney - Royal Albert Hall
[www.telegraph.co.uk] 8/Sir-Paul-McCartney-rocks-the-Royal-Albert-Hall.html (Review)

[www.youtube.com] (clip)]]> quietman Brett Anderson Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:12:23 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220283,220283#msg-220283 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220283,220283#msg-220283
Btw, to avoid hermeneutic flaws: I'm not expressing a preference and/or a (to my knowledge) hidden feeling on the chosen scenario. I'm just a bit curious.


Anyone has ideas on this?

An.]]> zarathus Brett Anderson Wed, 09 May 2012 13:05:14 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220260,220260#msg-220260 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220260,220260#msg-220260 www.sabotagetimes.com]]]> BlackSparrow Brett Anderson Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:52:50 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220237,220237#msg-220237 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220237,220237#msg-220237
Like so many others on this tumbling earth I have a website on which I occasionaly write stuff. I recently added a review of my Koko-BA-experience. Since this has BA relevance, I thought it would be nice to share the part of BA in Koko with you guys. Because English is so not my native language the text is probably full of errors - feel free to make your comments. Always happy to learn.

BTW: this is not me promoting the site, just referring to it as 'context'.

The part of the review:


"I did enjoy my London trip a lot. I mean, yes I can be bothered by all sorts of details but in se, I am able to let things go and submerge myself to pictures, odeurs, panorama’s and food. The main reason for my presence here was yet to come: I had a ticket for Brett’s gig at Koko!

Despite the fact that I’ve been listening to Suede music for about 18 years (with pauzes, not exclusively thank God) I’ve never attended a concert of the band. I wanted to for a long time but all sorts of reasons stood between me and actually seeing them live. The worst thing in this matter was that I found out about their reunion one month AFTER they performed in Amsterdam… It could have been a birthday to remember for the rest of my life, but no – I was still in the dark at that point. So that’s why going to Brett’s solo concert meant so much to me: hearing and seeing the man who’s voice and words are in my head since the early ’90s, LIVE.

He was brilliant that night. Full of energy – both giving and (seemingly) receiving from the interaction with the audience. I enjoyed the experience as a whole – standing close enough to actually see his face and observe the performance; To succumb to the flow of being part of the audience-battery: invisible, safe, a slave to my needs to escape the world outside the doors of the building; To mentally frame this event in the corners of my mind. I left the performance high on energy jumping and smiling all the way back to my hotel. I didn’t even mind the tube-travellers looking at me. For I was drugged by happiness and refused to open my eyes for anything else but being there.

Thank you Brett."]]> zarathus Brett Anderson Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:25:31 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220236,220236#msg-220236 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220236,220236#msg-220236
[thequietus.com]

- BA HQ]]> quietman Brett Anderson Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:38:19 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220234,220234#msg-220234 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220234,220234#msg-220234
March 12th, 2012.
[thequietus.com]]]> rhomm Brett Anderson Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:27:47 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220226,220226#msg-220226 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220226,220226#msg-220226
Here's the blurb....

Brett Anderson: Songbook (60 mins)

Suede's frontman talks about his musical influences and the creative inspirations behind his songwriting, having penned numerous hits including Beautiful Ones and She's In Fashion.

Enjoy!!]]> another no-one Brett Anderson Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:32:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220204,220204#msg-220204 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220204,220204#msg-220204 [www.huffingtonpost.co.uk]]]> ashleyhames Brett Anderson Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:44:21 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220200,220200#msg-220200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220200,220200#msg-220200
[itunes.apple.com]


...AND REVIEWED BY ACTUAL AMERICANS HERE:

filtermagazine.com/index.php/reviews/entry/brett_anderson

Enjoy!

Didz]]> quietman Brett Anderson Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:54:43 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?4,220197,220197#msg-220197 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?4,220197,220197#msg-220197
[www.facebook.com]]]> quietman Other bands Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:46:28 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220189,220189#msg-220189 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220189,220189#msg-220189
]]> strangedave Brett Anderson Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:39:38 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220170,220170#msg-220170 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220170,220170#msg-220170 ohmylover Brett Anderson Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:02:51 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220142,220142#msg-220142 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220142,220142#msg-220142

[translate.google.com.ar]

[britishwave.ru]]]> rhomm Brett Anderson Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:50:33 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?4,220139,220139#msg-220139 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?4,220139,220139#msg-220139
Nonetheless...

[on.fb.me]

If you (dare to) follow this link you will be rewarded with another link to buy tickets for Artmagic's first full band show on the 1st March at the Bowery in London. Other rewards include the opportunity to look at the cover for the forthcoming album and to read the words which make up the title of the album. Can you even believe all that? Proactive. Generous. Art. Magic.

Didz]]> quietman Other bands Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:03 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220120,220120#msg-220120 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220120,220120#msg-220120
"There comes a time in everyone's life when you wake up in the morning, look yourself in the mirror and ask (just audibly, more an exhalation than an outburst): "I wonder what the devil that Brett Anderson from the band Suede has been listening to? What has he read? Where has visited?" (For me this is sometimes followed by: "Oh good. That bout of Athletes Foot has started to clear up"/"I really should clean this bathroom cabinet" but that's just me and not really relevant here).

Anyway, if you have been asking yourself the first three questions you can find out the answers here: [www.brettanderson.co.uk]

Click through to the "CULTURE" section."]]> quietman Brett Anderson Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:07:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220118,220118#msg-220118 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220118,220118#msg-220118
The exhibition’s sub-title is enough to worry you...“A Bigger Picture”. Vast scale has no bearing on considerations of quality. Neither does sheer quantity. Bludgeoning the general public into submission with an interminable procession of gaudy canvasses depicting a variety of landscapes, from the Grand Canyon to his native Yorkshire, Hockney packs the massive spaces of the Royal Academy with one lazily tossed-off effort after the other, presumably in an effort to consolidate his position as one of Britain’s foremost living painters.

This is a disastrously complacent, grotesquely sycophantic exhibition. It’s littered with self-aggrandising references (both in the accompanying literature and within the work) to Monet and Van Gogh but has nothing of Vincent’s astute and discriminating choice of subject nor Monet’s rigorous, disciplined investigation. On the contrary, so much here looks wilfully cack-handed and clumsy - a virtual compendium of ‘bad painting’ techniques. The predominant palette for these landscapes is comprised of the gaudiest, most super-saturated, retina-melting colour you’ll ever witness. The brushwork, meanwhile, is flaccid, slapdash and daubed. A number of questions instantly arise: is this clumsiness and vulgarity deliberate and ‘faux-naive’? If so - Why? And more importantly, why is an artist of David Hockney’s stature re-heating Impressionist concerns which were comprehensively addressed more than a century ago?

Many of the ridiculously vast paintings are assemblages of numerous smaller panels, cobbled together to form a coherent whole. This smacks of gimmickry. Hockney’s point may be that the eye ‘sees’ the world in intimately related small sections, leaving the brain to compose and assemble a comprehensible impression but the concept only bears fruit in an enormous montage of LCD screens, displaying cleverly choreographed scenes filmed with an array of cameras.

A good exhibition, much like a classic album, brings with it a sense of Manifesto. The lack of that feeling of serious purpose is probably this show’s biggest failing. There’s little sense of any committed enquiry into the subject. His series of ‘re-interpretations’ of Claude Lorrain’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’ take the show to a new level of embarrassment. These are grotesque parodies, juvenile travesties and entirely symptomatic of the lack of any abiding ‘editorial’ principle in the show. Only a ‘national treasure’ could be indulged in such an obsequious and obeisant manner.

Toward the end of the show, Hockney presents his ‘ipad’ sketches; both on a series of wall-mounted ipads and in large-scale print form. Yes, he’s clearly achieved a vaguely impressive ‘mastery’ of this “new” digital medium. But artists have been exploiting the possibilities of Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, CorelDraw et al for a decades. So, once again, nothing new is brought to the table and the stale whiff of modish gimmickry is in the air.

If you’re prepared to sift through the dross, much of which would never even pass muster (as Brian Sewell has already pointed out) at the R.A Summer Show then you’ll find a few gems - from concise little sketchbook studies to intricate, well-observed charcoal drawings. Irritatingly, they’re often tucked away in glass cases or otherwise drowned in the ocean of mediocrity.

While my full weight (just under ten and a half stone as you’re asking) is firmly on my Soapbox, I’ll state that GOOD ART (of whatever kind) is always incisive, urgent, taut and lean. ‘David Hockney R.A: A Bigger Picture’ is fundamentally banal, flabby, toothless and flatulent.

See this unaccountably sold out show if and when you can lay your hands on a ticket.

Andy

[www.royalacademy.org.uk]]]> onehellofaretard General Discussion Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:30 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220111,220111#msg-220111 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220111,220111#msg-220111 liu Brett Anderson Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:48:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220108,220108#msg-220108 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220108,220108#msg-220108 ohmylover Brett Anderson Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220101,220101#msg-220101 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220101,220101#msg-220101
NME's Lost Albums Issue hits the stands on February 8th.]]> quietman Brett Anderson Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:03:35 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220100,220100#msg-220100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220100,220100#msg-220100
Anyway...for our North and South American cousins may i announce the preorder link for Black Rainbows + bonus track (digital only)...


[itunes.apple.com]


Now click, buy and relish the warm, smug glow that only internet transactions can bring y'awl!


Didz]]> quietman Brett Anderson Thu, 17 May 2012 04:57:54 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220091,220091#msg-220091 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220091,220091#msg-220091 Do you follow it at all?

Cheers.

(Might sound silly, but I was watching the German league last night and had so much fun watching M'gladbach beating Bayern Munich, and this question popped up in my head because of something that the commentator said...long story, and to be hoesnt it wasn't the only time I wondered about that).]]> 82 Brett Anderson Brett Anderson Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:09:48 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220088,220088#msg-220088 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220088,220088#msg-220088 www.storiadellamusica.it]

but I didn't give any mark. The site gave it for me. I would have given 8.]]> ohmylover Brett Anderson Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:59:17 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220076,220076#msg-220076 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220076,220076#msg-220076 filtermagazine.com]]]> odile Brett Anderson Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:51:00 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220074,220074#msg-220074 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220074,220074#msg-220074
.Big Louise, Scott Walker
.Holes, Mercury Rev
.It Was a Very Good Year, Frank Sinatra
.That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, The Smiths
.Ne me quitte pas Jacques Brel
.Oceans Burning, The Horrors
.Plainsong, The Cure.


[www.feelinggloomy.com]
[open.spotify.com]]]> rhomm Brett Anderson Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:35:22 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220071,220071#msg-220071 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220071,220071#msg-220071
Brett just did some of his lovely talking on the BBC.

The gist of it is here.

www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20120116_brett.shtml

Didz]]> quietman Brett Anderson Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:42:05 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220069,220069#msg-220069 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220069,220069#msg-220069
]]> strangedave Brett Anderson Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:27:19 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220058,220058#msg-220058 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,220058,220058#msg-220058 [www.nme.com]]]> lunalui Brett Anderson Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:15:01 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220052,220052#msg-220052 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220052,220052#msg-220052 shortyawards.com]

if you wish to vote for Brett, suede or even @reallybanderson!]]> lunalui General Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:06:46 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220044,220044#msg-220044 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?3,220044,220044#msg-220044
How curious that Mr Hannon tonight appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, dazzling us with his knowledge of the TV show Frasier...

...and how wonderful that he went on to win the thing, beating a BBC political correspondent with his superior general knowledge. What a fine, talented, elegant and intelligent fellow he is!]]> another no-one General Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:08:09 +0100