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FFS - september 1 2015:
We had a little chat with Stuart Maconie on BBC Radio 6 Music last week. Here's Ron practising his photobombing skills.
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FFS - september 1 2015:
We had a little chat with Stuart Maconie on BBC Radio 6 Music last week. Here's Ron practising his photobombing skills.
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project an
Lewisohn trying to worm his way back in. He still seems to be a pin-up for men of a certain age.
Damon & Graham at the Marquee (in Charing Cross Road) chatting to Stuart Maconie 1991 photo by Polly Birkbeck [X]
JOMP BPC - 29th June - Freebie
This is an unusual book in the Hag household in that it's a physical book that Mr Hag bought and read and has now passed to me. He goes for audiobooks almost 100% of the time - other than technical books about cameras/photography, I can only think of one other physical book Mr Hag has bought in the last 5 years.
Anyway, I've enjoyed other Stuart Maconie books I've read though it's been the best part of a decade since I last read one, so we'll see. The other factor for me though is that I really like Stuart Maconie's accent - he's from Lancashire and that's my favourite of the north west English accents, and I see he reads the audiobook of this, so that's actually a more tempting option for me.
Stuart Maconie is joined by Ewan Mitchell, Jon Holmes, Julia Fordham and Kym Marsh.
Ewan Mitchell (Aemond Targaryen) was one of the guests on the BBC Radio 4 show Loose Ends.
If you're impatient, Ewan gets introduced around 19:10 and his segment continues up to 26:10.
Really lovely interview of Ron and Russell by Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie before the 6 Music Festival 24/03/2017. Particularly enjoy the teasing of Mark and Stuart for trying to sing along to This Town... immediately before the interview. They always seem to enjoy being interviewed on this show.
The new Suede journal, which has been compiled by drummer Simon Gilbert, documents his arrival in the band in 1991 through to 1993.
Suede to release new photo-journal, ‘So Young: Suede 1991-1993’
The new book will arrive in October
By Elizabeth Aubrey, 31st August 2021.
Suede are set to release a new photojournal called So Young: Suede 1991-1993.
The journal, which has been compiled by drummer Simon Gilbert, documents his arrival in the band in 1991 through to 1993, when the group’s self titled debut album reached number one.
Released on October 8, the book is a “rich collection of previously unseen archive photography” which “captures Suede at every moment of their formative years”, according to a press release.
Speaking about the project, Gilbert said: “So Young is the book that’s been in my head for over thirty years. When I was getting into music I was more interested in seeing bands away from the bright lights of Top of the Pops. Photos of the Pistols in the pub or The Clash at a checkpoint in Belfast fascinated me, and filled me with visions of what it was actually like to be in a band.
“When the opportunity was handed to me to do just that in 1991, I made sure we were armed with cameras to catch all the tiny details of life on the road, in the studio and beyond.
“Being in lockdown gave me the time to get the book together. Reading through my diaries and finding corresponding photos has been a wonderful experience, taking me right back.”
The book also contains a foreword from Stuart Maconie. Speaking about the book, he added: “The diaries and pictures and text in this book are a powerful, even pungent snapshot of the early Suede.
“You can taste the fizzy lager and the roll ups, smell the pub toilets and sweat, later to become champagne and sushi, expensive hotel toiletries and on one memorable occasion in Japan, margaritas.”
Meanwhile, the band have rescheduled the 25th anniversary tour of ‘Coming Up’ to November due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
The band had been due to hit the road next month to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their third album, with the dates originally having been set for October 2020.
The UK stops on the tour will now take place in November, with all previously purchased tickets valid for the new dates.
From the latest Waitrose Weekend magazine. The Rev Army. Gulp.