Tiny non-Suedey bonus (because it's CHRISTMAS) - a throwback to the time Final Score thanked Mark E Smith for using The Fall's Theme From Sparta FC as their intro music by letting him loose on the classified results. Maybe one day we'll get Neil doing the weather... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aC...

... and #Suede covering The Pretenders' Brass In Pocket for the now-defunct NME's 40th anniversary collection of covers of Number One singles www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MG...

There's a few Suede/Fall crossover points - in the podcast, Mat talks about replacing Levitation as a support (the legendary 'fired for eating a salad' rumour), but both bands also appeared on Ruby Tracks; The Fall doing Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQi...

(Actually, the video team can't have been THAT traumatised, as they're using the night as one of their case studies...) lmsuk.org/suede-make-g...

The poor camera crew still wake in the night, muttering about how their carefully-planned, well-crafted angles fell to pieces as Suede fans surged about. Our favourite shot here is Mat floating over the heads of the crowd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1l3...

Another quick video from the gig - this one from further back. She Still Leads Me On www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEjC...

Ahead of the festival date, #MatOsman spoke with CNN Chile: "You want to reach young people, new audiences. So the idea of ​​playing at a free festival, where people don’t have to pay to see us, is fantastic." www.cnnchile.com/cultura/mat-...

I really hope some of you watched that video, because when we got there... well, it wasn't really very Advent-friendly

There's a pissier review on Album of the Year www.albumoftheyear.org/user/qod/alb... "...nor does it honestly meet with Brett Anderson's assessment that this tenth record '[pushes] creatively.'"
Obviously, we're partisan here, but... they were so wrong, right?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTw...

Day 1 of #Suede2025AdventMemory and where else to start but the release of the year's first single? Coming from a clear blue May sky, "if you are to fall to pieces, then it is best to do it with company, like a neglected wall near a garden shed" [Cult Following] cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/05/19/s...

And also on that photographer's perch was RockShot's Kalpesh Patel rockshotmagazine.com/live-suede-r...

Blanc Creative's Lee Blanchflower was at the earlier date, making six-hour roundtrip to take photos that were worth every single drop of petrol blanc-creative.com/music/suede-...

Roisin O'Connor reviewed (we presume) the first night for The Independent www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Really, there shouldn't be any video of the set-behind-the-screen as you were asked not to shoot any, but Carlos Grajal came down on the side of posterity www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ5F...

There had been thought given to whether the second night should happen. It went ahead, with a police presence watching the queue file in, and lighting echoing the French tricolour. You can understand why cancellation was considered, but also: if ever there was a night you needed friends and music...

The second night hit different from the first; how could it not, as while the first gig had been happening, news of the terrorist attacks in Paris had been starting to come through. People like us, in a venue, watching a band. Not getting to go home.