25th november, 2009
Southamerican live dates announced:
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Curtiba Joker's Cafe, Brazil |
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Sao Paulo Citibank Hall, Brazil |
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Buenos Aires La Trastienda, Argentina |
24th november, 2009
Brett Anderson is releasing on 7th december a lyric book which is now available to preorder at Brett's official shop.
The book is called "The Words Of Brett Anderson" and it'is a retrospective of lyrics comprising all studio albums from Suede, The Tears and the solo albums including B side lyrics. The book is hard backed, with around 150 pages and 130 lyrics. All first 1000 copies will be signed by Brett.
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24th november, 2009
More TV and radio appearances:
22nd november, 2009
'The Hunted' along with B-Side 'With You Within You' has been released today as a digital download in the UK and in the USA.
'With You Within You' can also be found at the Japanese physical edition of the album as a bonus track.
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21st november, 2009
Brett will be appearing on UK TV channel Sky Arts 1 programme 'Songbook' this Thursday 3 December from 8pm. (UK time). The programme will include an interview with Brett and live performances of 'Hymn', 'Ashes of Us', 'The Next Life', 'The Wild Ones' and 'Trash'.
18th november, 2009
Brett and Angie Pollock have played today a session at Absolute Radio. The chosen songs were 'The Hunted', 'Ashes Of Us' and 'Hymn'. The first two will be aired on Thursday 26th November and all three tracks will go on Absolute Radio website later.
11th november, 2009
Brett will be a guest on 6 Music show 'Roundtable' tomorrow (12h november) from 6pm (UK time). He will be discussing the week's single releases.
Next wednesday (18th november) Brett and keyboardist Angie Pollock will be recording an interview and a session for Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show on Absolute Radio. The show will be aired on tuesday 24th november from 5pm (UK time).
6th november, 2009
A couple of interesting interviews with Brett Anderson:
- The Quietus.
- Bang Showbiz News Agency.
6th november, 2009
Brett Anderson has announced the full European tour for January-February 2010.
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London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, UK |
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Utrecht Tivoli, The Netherlands |
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Cologne Luxor, Germany |
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Hamburg Knust, Germany |
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Stockholm Nalen, Sweden |
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Oslo Parkteatret, Norway |
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Copenhagen Pumpehuset, Denmark |
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Berlin Lido, Germany |
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Munich Atomic Cafe, Germany |
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Milan Musicdrome, Italy |
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Paris Divan Du Monde, France |
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Antwerp Trix, Belgium |
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Manchester Academy 3, UK |
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Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, UK |
January Southamerican dates in Brazil and Argentina will be announced soon.
2nd november, 2008
Today, Brett Anderson's third solo album 'Slow attack' is released on CD. Bonus track 'Forest Lullaby' is only available digitally on I-tunes.
01. Hymn
02. Wheatfields
03. The Hunted
04. Frozen Roads
05. Summer
06. Pretty Widows
07. The Swans
08. Ashes Of Us
09. Scarecrows And Lilacs
10. Julian's Eyes
11. Leave Me Sleeping
12. Forest Lullaby
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30th october, 2009
There's an interesting interview with Brett Anderson on British newspaper The Independent. You can read it here.
The Independent is offering readers eight free Brett Anderson songs to download, including four tracks from the new album, ‘Slow Attack', (”Hymn”, “The Hunted”, “Ashes of Us”, “Frozen Roads”). You can hear/download them here.
30th october, 2009
Brett Anderson has announced three dates in the UK in January-February 2010.
European and Southamerican dates will be announced soon.
'Slow Attack' is now digitally available via iTunes (with an exclusive bonus track "Forest Lullaby") in some european countries. Itunes UK will have the album available on sunday.
28th october, 2009
Brett Anderson and his band played last night (october 27th) a show at The Tabernacle in London.
Firstly they played ten of the eleven songs from 'Slow Attack': 'Hymn', 'Wheatfields', 'The Hunted', 'Frozen Roads', 'Leave me Sleeping', 'Scarecrows And Lilacs', 'Summer', 'Ashes Of Us', 'Julian's Eyes' and 'The Swans'', then three songs from Wilderness ('A Different Place', 'The Empress' and 'Chinese Whispers') with just him on piano and Amy Langley on cello and then back with the full band three songs from his first album ('To the Winter', 'Love is Dead' and 'Song For My Father') and an encore with 'Funeral Mantra' and 'Back To You'. No Suede songs were played and Leo Abrahams appeared to play guitar on 'Scarecrows And Lilacs'.
(Thanks to sunshine)
Line up for the show:
- Brett Anderson - vocals, guitar and piano;
- Jim Dare - guitar;
- Sebastian Sternberg - drums;
- Amy Langley - cello;
- Didz Hammond - bass;
- Angie Pollock - piano;
- Leo Abrahams - guitar on 'Scarecrows & Lilacs'.
27th october, 2009
Brett and his band played last night (october 26th) an intimate rehearsal in front of 40 lucky fans at The Joint Rehearsal Studios in London. They played all the songs from 'Slow Attack' except 'Pretty Widows'.
This was the setlist (thanks to sunshine):
'Hymn', 'Wheatfields', 'The Hunted', 'Frozen Roads', 'Leave Me Sleeping', 'Scarecrows And Lilacs', 'Summer', 'Ashes Of Us', 'Julian's Eyes', 'The Swans'.
24th october, 2009
Brett will be joining Richard Bacon for a live interview on BBC 6 Music on wednesday 28th at 15:00 (UK time).
He also will join Janice Long for another interview on BBC Radio 2 on tuesday 3rd November at 00:00 (UK time).
24th october, 2009
On Saturday 31st October, British newspaper The Independent will be offering online readers the chance to download eight Brett Anderson tracks, including four songs from 'Slow Attack'. First single 'The Hunted' can now be heard at The Independent site.
21st october, 2009
Brett's new album 'Slow Attack' will be available through I-tunes on 30th October with exclusive bonus track 'Forest Lullaby'.
16th october, 2009
Brett Anderson's promo video of new single 'The Hunted' is now online on Youtube. The song was premiered yesterday at Andrew Collins 'The Roundtable' on BBC 6 Music.
12th october, 2009
Although it's not official yet, seems like 'The Hunted' is going to be a single off 'Slow Attack' as amazon.co.uk is going to sell it from 22nd November only as a digital download. The single has its own artwork and includes the non album track 'With You Within You'. |
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11th october, 2009
Brett Anderson has invited 20 fans through a competition to watch a full band rehearsal on the 26th October at The Joint Rehearsal Studios near King Cross in London.
There's a new Brett Anderson official online store opened through townsendrecords.
Amazon.co.uk are previewing 30 secs. clips of all the 'Slow Attack' songs.
9th october, 2009
Brett Anderson played last night (8 october) a short gig at the Jack Daniel's birthday party in London. Brett played six songs ('To the Winter', 'Back To You', 'The Wild Ones', 'Killing Of A Flash Boy', 'Everything Will Flow' and 'Trash') backed by 'The New Silver Cornet Band', a band of veteran US musicians. Jon McClure (of Reverend and The Makers) and Carl Barat (of the Libertines) were also on the bill and Brett and them played together at the end of the gig a cover of The Velvet Underground's 'Venus In Furs'
2nd october, 2009
A video of Brett Anderson performing a new song called 'Leave Me Sleeping' is now available on YouTube.
25th september, 2009
Full interview with Brett Anderson is now online on 'www.brettanderson.co.uk'.
There's another interview with Brett on 'www.tourdates.co.uk'
...and a video interview on the Jack Daniel's Set
18th september, 2009
'Slow Attack', the third Brett Anderson solo album will be released on November 2nd.
A video with some preview clips of the album are already online on Youtube. Songs featured are 'Hymn', 'The Hunted', 'Summer', 'Ashes Of Us' and 'The Swans'.
11th september, 2009
Now it's online the first part of an interesting interview with Brett Anderson on 'www.brettanderson.co.uk'.
8th september, 2009
Brett will be playing a full band show at The Tabernacle in London on 27th October introducing the songs from his new album 'Slow Attack'.
4th september, 2009
A video of Brett Anderson performing a cover version of Prince's 'When Doves Cry' is now available on YouTube.
Update: this video has been removed from youtube due licence issues with Prince's publishers.
24th august, 2009
Brett will be performing a DJ set at
Club Feeling Gloomy in Islington, London
on
Saturday 19th September 10pm
21st august, 2009
A video of Brett Anderson performing the new song 'Ashes Of Us' is now available on YouTube
7th august, 2009
A video of Brett Anderson performing the new song 'Frozen Roads' is now available on YouTube
Brett Anderson alongside other artists like Carl Barat and John McClure will be playing at Jack Daniel's Birthday JD Set, taking place at London's Village Underground on Thursday 8th October
2nd august, 2009
Brett Anderson has posted some thoughts about the forthcoming release of his third solo album 'Slow Attack' on his official forum
31th july, 2009
Brett Anderson's third solo album 'Slow Attack' will be released in October. The album artwork has been created by Brett and Paul Khera and this is the tracklist:
01. Hymn
02. Wheatfields
03. The Hunted
04. Frozen Roads
05. Summer
06. Pretty Widows
07. The Swans
08. Ashes Of Us
09. Scarecrows And Lilacs
10. Julian's Eyes
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From next friday (aug. 7) there will be regular fortnightly performances of new songs by Brett available on his youtube channel.
17th june, 2009
This was Brett's setlist at last night's show at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile:
'Funeral Mantra', 'Wheatfields', 'The Hunted', 'Back To You', 'To The Winter', 'Love Is Dead', 'By The Sea', 'Everything Will Flow', 'The Empress', 'The 2 of Us', 'The Asphalt World', 'Killing Of A Flashboy', 'She', 'Filmstar', 'Can’t Get Enough', 'Trash', 'Beautiful Ones', 'The Wild Ones', 'So Young', 'Saturday Night'.
16th june, 2009
Brett finally arrived to Chile and the show will be today at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago at 21:30.
13th june, 2009
Brett's scheduled gig for yesterday (june 12) in Chile was cancelled as Brett and his crew couldn't leave Lima due to immigration issues.
Brett and the promoters are trying to re-arrange a new date for the show but no further info has been revealed yet.
12th june, 2009
Brett Anderson played an electric show last night (june 11) in Lima, Perú. This was his first show in South America ever and was a big success. The show included two new songs called: 'Wheatfields' and 'The Hunted'. This was the setlist (thanks to KidChico):
'Funeral Mantra', 'Wheatfields', 'The Hunted', 'Back To You', 'To The Winter', 'Love Is Dead', 'By The Sea', 'Everything Will Flow', 'The Empress', 'The 2 of Us', 'The Asphalt World', 'Killing Of A Flashboy', 'She', 'Filmstar', 'Can’t Get Enough', 'Trash', 'Beautiful Ones', 'The Wild Ones', 'So Young', 'Saturday Night'.
Line up for the show:
Brett - vocals, guitar and piano;
Jim Dare - guitar and backing vocals;
Sebastian Sternberg - drums;
Didz - bass (ex Dirty Pretty Things).
1st june, 2009
There's a brief interview with Brett on this month's Q Magazine (thaks to 2-J):
According to Brett, "I approached Leo Abrahams because I liked his solo records and because he had done a lot of interesting soundtrack work. I had a vague idea that the album should have a cinematic, less song-based feel but I think the original idea has mutated and become something else together. Some songs are strange and meandering, some are simple and miniature and most have quite complex arrangements inspired by the work of Mark Hollis".
Song titles include "The Swans", "Pretty Windows" and "Scarecrows and Lillacs.
7th may, 2009
Brett Anderson announcement on his official forum:
"The album is finished and the title is Slow Attack. As yet unsequenced and un-mixed ,it will probably contain up to 12 completely new tracks mainly written by Leo (Abrahams) and myself. Heavily featuring woodwind, it is fuller, stranger and more complex than the last two solo albums and influenced by Leo's command of atmospherics and his classical training. The decision to use woodwind as a primary colour on our palette of sound was inspired by the work of Mark Hollis, an artist whose constant devellopment and distorsion of the pop model we both found fascinating. However, don't expect the record to sound like Talk Talk or anything else for that matter... we have carved these influences into our own shape and the outcome is a record which to me sounds like nothing i have ever done before. It goes without saying that i am immensely proud of this body of work and extremely excited for the world to hear it.
I anticipate that it will be released in autumn this year but you'll forgive me if at this stage i cannot be more specific. Of course live shows will follow, the format of which i have yet to decide. One thing is certain though, they will be different from those on the Wilderness tour."
22nd april, 2009
Brett Anderson & Leo Abrahams are entering the studio today to record the new album.
Leo Abrahams has posted this on his website:
"The Brett Anderson project has been coming along well. During the writing process we’ve managed to get quite a bit of the recording done too. There’s an integrity to the the feeling of very early performances that can be hard to recapture. In some cases we’ll be able to use the first time I played the song, and the first vocal. There are lots of classical arrangements, which I still prefer to do on paper than on computer. Somehow it makes me consider each player more, as well as encouraging a more detailed use of dynamics. Copying out all the individual parts is a bit of a chore, but it’s also strangely meditative and satisfying."
16th april, 2009
Brett Anderson has announced two full electric shows in South America for June. The two lucky cities are Lima (Perú) and Santiago (Chile). It's also confirmed that no other Suede members will be in the line up.
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Discoteca Vocé, Lima, Perú |
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Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile |
11th february, 2009
Brett has revealed at his official forum he's working with musician/producer Leo Abrahams on the next record:
"We have written a whole bundle of stuff already and the chemistry seems to be fizzing away nicely. what does it sound like?.. well nothing like Wilderness, or like the first record for that matter... I guess if there's one musical theme that unites the songs it's a sense of atmosphere. Leo has a worked a lot on film soundtracks and it was that kind of mood that i was hoping to evoke when i approached him to work with me. the sound is forming slowly and shaping up to be a lot fuller than the last record but nevertheless laced with moments of stillness and calm .we are using less piano and strings and more woodwind and guitar.there are meandering instrumental passages and musical places i wouldn't normally be able to visit if i was working completely on my own.i suppose lyrically the songs are less romantic and more veiled than the last couple of records. i've been thinking a lot about that Francis Bacon quote about it being the artist's job to deepen the mystery. this time i want to hint at things rather than exhaustively detail them, create fragmants for people to guess at.
i would love to release the record this year and that is my vague plan but it at the moment all i can say is that it will be finished when it's ready."
20th january, 2009
'The London Sessions', a 20 track compilation on limited double vinyl (1000 numbered copies) chosen by the fans (16 tracks) and Brett Anderson himself (4 tracks, one to each side of the vinyl) from Brett's trilogy of London concerts released by concertlive.co.uk, will start to be delivered from 9th February. Here's the final tracklist:
Side A:
To The Winter (Shepherds Bush Empire)
The Living Dead (Union Chapel)
By The Sea (Shepherds Bush Empire)
My Insatiable One / Clowns / It was a Very Good Year (QEH)
The 2 Of Us (Union Chapel)
Side B:
High Rising (Union Chapel)
The Asphalt World (Union Chapel)
The Power (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Back To You (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Song For My Father (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Side C:
Next Life (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
The Big Time (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Everything Will Flow (Union Chapel)
He's Gone (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Ebony (Union Chapel)
Side D:
Love Is Dead (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Europe Is Our Playground/The Big Time (Union Chapel)
Beautiful Ones (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Infinite Kiss (Shepherds Bush Empire)
Still Life (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
2nd january, 2009
Brett has left a message at the official forum telling that 2008 has been a wonderful year for him but now "it's time to turn the page and look for another path". He's working on the idea that the next album will not be under his name and wants to release an album every year.The way he recorded 'Wilderness' (almost live and just in a few days) was so inspiring for him and wants to continue working this way.
