Love is Dead
For a long time, I had been a fan of Suede and the frontman Brett
Anderson. Suede was never too popular in the US, probably because
they were just too British and too fey. Perhaps Americans prefer
their rock stars to be alpha males and super masculine. Suede
disbanded in 2003.
I went to 2 of their concerts many years ago, second of which I
managed to squeeze up to the 3rd or so row in the mosh pit. That was
a fantastic outdoors concert. The performance was electric and they
sounded very good live (far better than the previous concert I
attended). Brett Anderson also has a very charismatic style in both
the glam rock bits and the slow ballad parts. He used to like
swinging his microphone (no wireless mics for him!), which seems
somewhat dangerous to his bandmates.
Recently he has become more mellow. Sadly, he doesn't do the swinging
mic thing anymore.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23359629-details/gigReview.do?reviewId=23417647
I guess even rock stars must grow up. This is his first solo single
from about a year ago.
