http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,56681#msg-56681 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:21 +0200 Phorum 5.2.15a http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114386#msg-114386 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114386#msg-114386 Northern Lights Brett Anderson Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:28:09 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114383#msg-114383 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114383#msg-114383 translucent Brett Anderson Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:22:09 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114264#msg-114264 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,114264#msg-114264 Don't try to pull us down to your level!]]> Mrs Overall Brett Anderson Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:52:02 +0200 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72335#msg-72335 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72335#msg-72335 Smash Brett Anderson Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:41:10 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72223#msg-72223 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72223#msg-72223 -------------------------------------------------------
> ok that makes 5 but still only 3 came back. What
> were you two up to I wonder??! hahaha. I remember
> the girl she was pretty.

She is my best mate, godmother to my kids, and yes we do have a little "history" Yikes I sound like a stud!!!!]]> hugoflash Brett Anderson Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:08:45 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72219#msg-72219 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72219#msg-72219 halfpint Brett Anderson Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:57:33 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72206#msg-72206 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72206#msg-72206
and my friend girl! Dahlia!!!!]]> hugoflash Brett Anderson Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:24:52 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72201#msg-72201 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72201#msg-72201 -------------------------------------------------------
> halfpint Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > nope, that was another night or later or
> before,
> > definatly not at that point. Unless you was
> > sculking behind the bikesheds for gossip???
>
> I was having a laugh!!! i was standing next to you
> when Ian gallantly offered to help Temersa, you
> sure you were sober?

Oh my god! Was you???? I remember you introducing yourself but honestly that whole weekend was a blur and I didn't touch one drop of alcohol I was driving. I only drink vodka - neat! Infact that whole month was a blur regarding the gigs. YoBlair must have swept me off my feet hahahaaha. (Someone from the back shouts 'or drugged you') So it was 4 behind the bike sheds then (U,me,YB,& T) and still only 3 came back wooooooo.]]> halfpint Brett Anderson Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:36:49 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72184#msg-72184 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72184#msg-72184 -------------------------------------------------------
> Any bloke who doesn't help a lady out with a heavy
> bag should hand their dick to someone who deserves
> one.
>
>
> ....................."GOT
> MILF?"....................


Sexist bollocks!]]> stylishbastard Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:55:19 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72182#msg-72182 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72182#msg-72182 -------------------------------------------------------
> nope, that was another night or later or before,
> definatly not at that point. Unless you was
> sculking behind the bikesheds for gossip???

I was having a laugh!!! i was standing next to you when Ian gallantly offered to help Temersa, you sure you were sober?]]> hugoflash Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:41:44 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72129#msg-72129 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72129#msg-72129 MusicOMH
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Brett Anderson
@ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 20 October 2007
5 stars
There we were, back in the day at the start of Britpop (which wasn't even called that then), and did we guess, even for a second, that it would all end up at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, with Brett Anderson sitting sedately in front of a piano while an eight-piece string orchestra reinterpreted songs from across 15 years, two bands (three if you separate Suede with and without Bernard Butler) and a solo career?

An Evening With Brett Anderson (and a string ensemble, and a piano) opens with To The Winter, slowed down and dressed up, one of five tracks from his recent solo material that will get this treatment tonight. Followed by three more, it's not until the fifth song that he feels the need to delve into his back catalogue, melding mid-career Suede favourite She's In Fashion onto the back of One Lazy Morning before treating the audience to a beautiful, acoustic guitar-only version of the always heartbreaking Saturday Night. This works better than you might expect.

Brett is looking remarkably good for his age, still stick-thin with more cheekbones than any man should possess, let alone one the wrong side of 40, dressed impeccably in a tight pale grey suit and white shirt. He looks more accountant than androgynous these days, a sign of growing old gracefully.

Back To You and By The Sea swim beautifully through the superior acoustics before the first half of the evening finishes on two string-drenched classics from Dog Man Star, The Power and The Asphalt World, sounding as orchestral here as they were always destined to.

One short break later, Brett's back, beginning act two on stage alone for a three-song medley containing old favourite/obscure extra CD-single track (delete according to level of Suede obsession) My Insatiable One, a song no Suede fan in 1992 would ever have expected to hear in these circumstances. But he won't, he makes clear, give us The Drowners, no matter how much we want it.

Tonight is not about regrets, but it is about maturing. Anderson has taken a decade and a half of songs that often bristled with the anger of youth and sexual ambiguity and has turned them into something gentler, smoothing out their edges in the same way that many of the concrete jungles of which Suede once sang have since been pulled down and regenerated.

The songs, like their singer, have aged well. The irony is that it's the middle of his career that Brett has wiped from existence. There is nothing here from Suede's final album A New Morning (perhaps unfairly - in Lost in TV and Obsessions in particular it did have its moments) nor, more tellingly, from The Tears, who both he and Butler now seem happier to pretend never happened.

Maybe any reminder of The Tears would have would have been out of place tonight, amongst the orchestral pomp which allegedly drove them apart during the production of Dog Man Star. If Bernard was here, would it be at the expense of hearing virtually half of that album? If so, it wouldn't have been worth the price.

If anything can make the evening better, it's the encore. Brett calls the audience forward for a rendition of The Wild Ones that drips with irony as a 40-year-old man, seated on a stool with an acoustic guitar, strums gently to the 30- and 40-somethings gathered around him before morphing the song into So Young, the only song tonight from a debut album that seems to have come so long ago.

Tonight, as he has on so many nights, he finishes on Trash, a song that has long been the Suede fans' anthem. You know as well as he does that there is less than a razor's edge between that description and the audience in front of him here.

There's even an official recording of the evening to take away, a legal bootleg with the cheers of the crowd in the background. Somewhere, I am amongst them. I listen to these CDs again as I write this review, the emotions still fresh in my mind. I can count the bands I like more than Suede on the fingers of one hand. Their best album was Dog Man Star. Tonight, I go home very, very happy.
- Jenni Cole



"What is musicOMH.com?

musicOMH.com is a diverse and completely independent reviews and features publication, covering music, films and theatre in London, the UK and beyond. Editorially it occupies a space somewhere between newspapers and specialist music magazines."]]> DKav Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:56:17 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72126#msg-72126 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72126#msg-72126 halfpint Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:50:21 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72111#msg-72111 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72111#msg-72111 -------------------------------------------------------
> breast
> and bums,

I should have learned an instrument.]]> Joe Col Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:49:55 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72088#msg-72088 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72088#msg-72088 halfpint Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:24:51 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72086#msg-72086 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72086#msg-72086 -------------------------------------------------------
> YoBlair is no stalker! That evening 3 people went
> out for a fag behind the bikes sheds, 2 lit up and
> the other stood there gassing. But only 2 came
> back wooooooo.
> forum.


What about me, I smoke and I was there wasn't I?]]> hugoflash Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:42:39 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72084#msg-72084 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72084#msg-72084 Yo Blair! Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:20:56 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72072#msg-72072 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,72072#msg-72072
As the man of the evening preceed to walk out of the building cigs were dropped and stamped on. Brett was jumped on by mad crazed fans wanting him to sign tickets, paper, records, tshirts, breast and bums, the man had no free hands and subsequently thrust his bag upon the nearest available person which just so happened to be the delightful boss!

Yo blair being the gentleman he is could clearly see Vanessa struggling and straining. She was what one would call a damsel in distress! Yo Blair in his bright shinning armour promptly asked Vanessa if she needed a hand. To which Vanessa with a gleeful glint in her eye handed over said items to the Knight in Shinning armour, to which he nearly keeled over with the sheer weight of the bag and was propped up by the nearest available person - me!!. Vanessa was now ready to fight off any attackers from behind and overhead!

Brett had fans to the front of him, Vanessa to the left of him and his gorgeous lady to the right, it was like a scene out of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Clearly Brett was exhausted and needed to go home so what was Mr Blair supposed to do? He followed and handed the bag over, I told him to keep it as I'd spied the Haribo sweets in it (joking!!) They managed to get into the get away car and left to the sound of screeching tyres under a cloud of smoke - not from the tyres they were bald within 2 yards but from the exhaust! COUGH! COUGH!

YoBlair is a true gent (one arm longer than normal now) but shhhhh don't tell him I said that.

I think it's best to let Brett mention the people close to his heart first especially when it's his forum.]]> halfpint Brett Anderson Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:52:04 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71984#msg-71984 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71984#msg-71984 -------------------------------------------------------
> Enola, don't worry about any of this. It seems
> clear that you're not a crazed stalker, trying to
> carry Brett's luggage or anything ;)
>
>


Thanks! It's nice to know that at least some people didn't take it the wrong way.
I didn't mean to offend anyone!
Take care x]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:29:52 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71982#msg-71982 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71982#msg-71982 stylishbastard Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:15:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71977#msg-71977 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71977#msg-71977 -------------------------------------------------------
> Didn't Brett request at one point on the forum
> that he would prefer people not to talk about his
> family? Of course it's up to you to decide if you
> acknowledge or reject his request. This being his
> own forum, it would make sense to give him the
> private space.
>
>
>
I didn't know such request was made.
Now that i know i will happily abide by his wishes.]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:36:36 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71968#msg-71968 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71968#msg-71968 DKav Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:49:53 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71966#msg-71966 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71966#msg-71966 -------------------------------------------------------
> Enola Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If i didn't respect Brett's privacy i would
> > already know the answer of who Jodie is
>
>
> It's worrying that you believe you have the means
> and the right to find out, regardless of whether
> you claim to respect his privacy or not. You're
> not one of them suedewalkers are you??
>
>
Where exactly did i write that i have the right to know? English is not my first language but I wrote quite the opposite: I do respect his privacy that's why i never tried to learn anything about his private life. And regarding having the means to find out, as i wrote later on my post, i meant through the internet and fan sites. Did you think that i would hire a private detective or something, come on!
What is a suedewalker?
You make me feel as if i'm a stalker or something for asking a simple follow-up question because i thought how strange that a Brett fan has met his girlfriend and then i thought she must be famous or something.

Anyway, i think that i made my point clear. Thanks Yo Blair for answering my first question and i'm not gonna post anymore on this subject. You have your views and opinions and i have mine. I just think that you have the wrong opinion of me and my post but i can't be bothered with it any longer.

I was not part of the tears forum beautifulrain, so i don't know what was happening there. But thanks for your kind words!]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:39:43 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71920#msg-71920 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71920#msg-71920 -------------------------------------------------------
> If i didn't respect Brett's privacy i would
> already know the answer of who Jodie is


It's worrying that you believe you have the means and the right to find out, regardless of whether you claim to respect his privacy or not. You're not one of them suedewalkers are you??]]> Yo Blair! Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:49:58 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71918#msg-71918 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71918#msg-71918
> The reason i asked you if she is famous or not, is
> because i found it strange that someone from a fan
> forum has met Brett's girlfriend, that's all and i
> thought that maybe she was someone famous in the
> UK and that's how you know her.
> Don't be so quick to judge people who you don't
> know. If i didn't respect Brett's privacy i would
> already know the answer of who Jodie is but i was
> never bothered to search the internet or fan sites
> to find out who Brett dates.
> I only asked who she was because i was listening
> to concert live cd and i was curious.


oh, well, there are fans who have met brett few times, aren't there? :)
(erm, me not included tho...)

but anyway, i don't doubt your best intentions enola, but not everyone's like that.
i remember some nasty posts on the tears forum...
it wasn't nice and it was useless, that's why private life is private. and better kept off the forum.]]> beautifulrain Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:42:45 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71912#msg-71912 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71912#msg-71912 -------------------------------------------------------
> Enola Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > Have you met her then? Is she famous, a
> singer or
> > working on british tv or something?
>
>
> Yes, and I got the impression she's a very private
> person and that Brett is respectful and protective
> of that, perhaps we should be too eh?
>
>
The reason i asked you if she is famous or not, is because i found it strange that someone from a fan forum has met Brett's girlfriend, that's all and i thought that maybe she was someone famous in the UK and that's how you know her.
Don't be so quick to judge people who you don't know. If i didn't respect Brett's privacy i would already know the answer of who Jodie is but i was never bothered to search the internet or fan sites to find out who Brett dates.
I only asked who she was because i was listening to concert live cd and i was curious.]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:25:07 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71910#msg-71910 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71910#msg-71910 -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Have you met her then? Is she famous, a singer or
> working on british tv or something?


Yes, and I got the impression she's a very private person and that Brett is respectful and protective of that, perhaps we should be too eh?]]> Yo Blair! Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:12:36 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71909#msg-71909 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71909#msg-71909 -------------------------------------------------------
> he mentioned it's his other half's favourite the
> other day he was on here, didn't he?
> it's a very romantic song. i love it too.
>
> now i'm sick and in bed all day, but supposse no
> one would all that much interested in what i've
> got to say...
> not that i've got anything interesting to say
> anyway :)
>

I don't remember if he mentioned that and my english are not so good so maybe i didn't understand it. Anyway thanks for your answer and I hope you get well soon!]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:11:25 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71907#msg-71907 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71907#msg-71907 -------------------------------------------------------
> lovely girl.
>
>

Have you met her then? Is she famous, a singer or working on british tv or something?]]> Enola Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:09:04 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71892#msg-71892 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71892#msg-71892 i thought that the lemsip cartons look really cool, but that may just be cos of the fever...

oh and thanx :)]]> beautifulrain Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:39:32 +0100 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71882#msg-71882 http://brettanderson.co.uk/forum/read.php?2,56681,71882#msg-71882 -------------------------------------------------------
>
> now i'm sick and in bed all day, but supposse no
> one would all that much interested in what i've
> got to say...
> not that i've got anything interesting to say
> anyway :)
>
hope you get better soon, but in your boredom, PLEASE don't put up poster sized pictures of your lemsips, sick bucket or snot filled tissues!]]> Yo Blair! Brett Anderson Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:30:02 +0100