Suede bassist. Author - The Ghost Theatre out now via Bloomsbury. Producer/composer. Didz at Quietus for musical stuff, Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath for books
Aw man. RIP Andy Rourke. A total one-off - a rare bassist whose sound you could recognise straight away. I remember so clearly playing that Barbarism break over and over, trying to learn the riff, and marvelling at this steely funk driving the track along. (pic - K Cummins)
Tried on a scent I really liked at Joseph. When I asked the assitants if it was meant for men or women they exchenged looks, and then one said, 'I'd say it's multi-use.' Just got home and checked it online. It's a room spray.
The three ages of a band, via cabbie conversations
1 - “Suede? Oh yeah, my daughter likes you”
2 - “Saw you guys at the Kilburn National back in the day”
3 - “Suede? Oh yeah, my dad likes you”
Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence."
Mark said "Like who?"
Skinner asked "Well, like Suede."
There was a perfectly timed beat.
"Never heard of them."
You think you’re a jaded man of the world, that there are no wonders left to experience .. and then you see a man eating a mince pie between two pieces of buttered bread
I have a Mark E Smith story actually. Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck. (1)
Just heard
@Squeezeofficial
‘s Up The Junction on the radio. Has there ever been a better short story in song form? I know Waterloo Sunset is the capital’s unofficial anthem but I think this might be the quintessential London song
Delighted to announce the title of the new Thursday Murder Club novel is...
'THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE'
Out on Sept 14th, and it's a cracker! You can pre-order it here, if that's the sort of thing you enjoy.
I can’t really fathom what it must feel like to know this lot (and David Tennant and Richard E Grant) are going to speak words you’ve written. Congratulations
@richardosman
It’s Buddy Holly’s birthday today. He seems like a figure from another age but if he were alive today he’d be younger than Woody Allen, Judi Dench and the Dalai Lama
Correction: I mistakenly said on here that Nicky from the Manics makes sure his bass matches his jacket. He's let it be known that he actually makes sure that his bass AND his eye-shadow matches his jacket.
Eavesdropping on some v hungover train passengers who were at a disastrous wedding last night. The bride and groom worked in hospitality and got free booze but charged all the guests for drinks. Then boasted to friends that it was paying for their month long…. 1/2
RIP Keith Flint. We played a LOT of festivals with them in the 90s and i always loved the moment when this quiet, chatty guy from backstage stepped out onto the stage and just transformed into this kind of monstrous ringmaster.
Well, last night was something special. Our biggest ever London show, a backdrop of the city lights and a full moon, and a wonderful crowd, so loud in the loud bits and quiet in the quiet bits. Thank you London
📸 Didz
Phew. I need a lie down. That was fantastic. Thanks to
@Tim_Burgess
and
@ed_buller
but most of all you lot. I loved hearing what the songs/shows meant to you. Be safe.
honeymoon in Italy. Which the friends then told to all the other guests which led to a mass walkout. They’re going into so much detail that I feel like I was there…
One of my favourite things about this tour is getting to watch the
@Manics
from side of stage every night. Stupendously, relentlessly great. Thank you to James, Nicky, Sean and Wayne for everything
Autofiction straight in at number two in the UK charts is our biggest record since 1999. Thank you everyone who bought or streamed it this week, it means a lot. (Of course as soon as the Sunday Times book chart comes out
@richardosman
will steal my thunder)
Couple on date next to me. Food and drinks arrive. He asks if she takes milk in her coffee and when she says yes, gallantly pours it for her.
Readers, it was her salad dressing.
Where, for you, is the absolute centre of London? Not necessarily geographically but where you feel truly in the middle of things? For me I think it's Bar Italia.
Damn. Terry Hall. Growing up he was that rarest of things -a pop star who was recognisably from your world. You could imagine him on the bus, smart-arsing at the back of class, in the pub. An inspiration, RIP
My DMs are 90% other bass players talking about doing exactly the same thing with Barbarism Begins At Home. Love the idea that the day after Meat Is Murder came out there were hundreds of us, headphones on, dropping the needle over and over, saying 'fucking HELL, Andy'
My brother,
@richardosman
with a no 1 bestseller in the States and my niece
@rubyosman_
explaining Chinese foreign policy in Time magazine. I’m only going to get one line in the family Christmas letter, aren’t I?
Just working with someone who didn’t know Suede really, and she was guessing who did what in the band. She reckoned I was the bass player so I asked what gave it away.
“I dunno, you seemed most like a tree.”
29 years ago today, on 12th January 1994, Simon Gilbert from
@suedehq
addressed the House of Commons about lowering the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16. 🖤
With Stephen Fry and Pat Clements.
If you begin "Apollo 13" at 9:17pm ET tonight, Tom Hanks will utter the infamous, "Houston, we have a problem" line *exactly* 50 years after Jim Lovell said it for real - 10:08pm, on April 13, 1970
You shouldn’t need any excuse to listen to
@StuartMaconie
and
@themarkrad
on their wonderful
@BBC6Music
weekend morning show, but from 8am this morning they’ll be playing tracks from our debut on the occasion of its 30th anniversary
He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently. (2)
I’m in a pub in Norwich called The Murderers. It has pics of famous killers and methods of execution on the walls. On one table a guy is shouting into his mobile BABES I JUST BOUGHT A LOAD OF VIAGRA AND I DON’T EVEN NEED IT, and at the other they’re playing D&D. My kinda town.