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Suede’s Attitude, Singles tour, £1000 tickets on ebay, the official biography and John Hurt is Brett Anderson.Suede will be releasing their 20th single entitled Attitude, on 6th October 2003 as a taster for their long-awaited greatest hits album, "Singles" which follows on 20th October. They’ve also announced details of their Singles tour in December. The band’s run at the ICA at the end of this month sold out in 2 hours flat and a pair of tickets for the Dogmanstar night recently sold on ebay for £1000. The more reasonably-priced tour looks like this:

December 7th Glasgow Academy
December 8th Manchester Academy
December 9th Bristol Academy
December 11th Birmingham Academy
December 12th Brixton Academy



Probably the most insanely catchy and modern Suede single so far, Attitude, is available on two separate CDs and a DVD single, which in keeping with the greatest hits, celebrate Suede's past, present and future. CD1 features Attitude produced by Jim Abbiss plus two other brand new songs: Golden Gun which was talked about as a potential single in its own right, and Oxygen, a typical heart-stopping Suede ballad with a modern twist. A CD extra herein will feature the Attitude video.

“Most of the new material is more aggressive and less song based than A New Morning," said Brett on the band's official website recently. "We've been spending a lot of time working on tracks that sound nothing like traditional Suede. There's a kind of electronic reggae thing called ‘Attitude’ and an insane metallic robot march called Golden Gun. I needed to write something as soulful as A New Morning at the time but now that’s out of my system and it’s time to release the beast.”

CD2 features newest Suede member Alex Lee's original demo of Attituderecorded at his home studio, Shabby Road, and is closer to the live version people may have heard at Glastonbury. In addition are two classic outtakes from the Suede archives: Just A Girl and Heroin. Just A Girl is one of Brett's oldest songs and pre-dates Suede. This gorgeous Brett-Richard duet comes from a session in late ‘94 where it was intended as possible b-side to New Generation but aborted due to a snapped string at a crucial moment. If you listen carefully you can just make out Richard saying “oh shit!” But as Brett adds, “That was going really well.” Heroin was recorded in late ‘99 as a potential b-side to Can't Get Enough but unreleased until now due to it being too close to the bone.

The DVD single features the regular Attitude plus two very different versions of previously released Suede tracks from the vaults: We’re So Disco and Head Music. The former song dates back to Suede’s earliest years. This version was recorded during the Coming Up sessions and was in the running for inclusion on the album until the band decided it didn’t fit the euphoric rush of the record. It was subsequently abandoned and then totally reworked as the dubbed up W.S.D. The Head Music here is the Arthur Baker mix. When Brett came up with the title track for Suede's 1999 album, legendary New York producer Arthur Baker was approached with a view to doing a remix for the potential lead-off single. In the end the song was redone in a more traditional fashion and remained an album track, but Arthur Baker's version gives a fascinating glimpse of what might have been. The DVD will also feature a director’s cut version of the Attitude video.

The video for Attitude was shot be Lindy Heymann who filmed Suede’s first two singles The Drowners and Metal Mickey. Heymann has just completed her first feature film entitled ShowBoy and her interpretation of Attitude features the legendary John Hurt as an old-time music-hall era version of Brett himself.



This Autumn also see the release of Suede: Love & Poison, The Authorised Biography, a biography of the band that, according to author David Barnett makes “No One Here Gets Out Alive seem like Enid Blyton.” It is published in hardback at £17.99 by Andre Deutsch on November 3rd 2003.

Get A Little Bit Tacky: Attitude is released on Sony on October 6th
Phill Savidge 0208 3480373/07887 584 242
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