News : Suede describe themselves as "anti-nostalgia"

Suede describes themselves as an "anti-nostalgia band."

The Animal Nitrate hitmakers, who first came together in 1989 before taking a break in 2003 and reuniting in 2010, are proud of their forward-looking approach. Frontman Brett Anderson believes they are the only Britpop-era group that refuses to get stuck in the past.

He told The Sun newspaper: "We're the anti-nostalgia band.

“If you want a headline, there you go. That’s what we are. That’s the way I think of Suede.

“It’s the way I separate us from our so-called peers.

“Our creative momentum is all about what we’re doing now — and what we’re going to do next...

“I really feel we’re the only band of our generation that isn’t going through the motions.”

Even so, the 57-year-old singer explained he has "no problem with the past" and still embraces Suede’s older catalogue when performing live.

He said, “I have no problem with the past. When you’re at a festival, it’s suicide just to play the new stuff. You’ve got to pick your weapons.

“There are still absolutely brilliant moments when we play songs from the Nineties, but, for us, it’s all about the future."

With the release of their new album Antidepressants, Brett hopes he and his bandmates will keep pushing boundaries in the years ahead.

He said: "We’re still evolving.

“I hope we make some of the best and most challenging music we’ve ever made.

“That is always the goal.”

The Trash singer explained that his songwriting often revolves around “simple human emotions” such as love, loss, pain, and desire, drawing heavily on his personal experiences.

He said, “My family is such a generator of songs for me. You won’t find me doing songs about farming in Kenya like some leftfield band.

“When you’re young, you find them when your girlfriend leaves you or you see some woman on a train that you fancy.

“When you’re older, passions aren’t so fleeting. I’m obsessed with my family and the relationships within my family.”

Brett also admitted the band’s internal relationships have shifted since the early years, with Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes, and Neil Codling becoming “more business-oriented.” However, they still share a close bond.

He said, “When Mat and I first met, we became very close friends and hung out a lot.

“[But] you spend so much downtime with them, sitting around in hotels and airports, that you’re not going to socialize with them as well.

“I love the guys in my band in a very different way from my family or my friends.

“We’ve been together for such a long time that we have many complex in-jokes.

“We’ll sit and chatter away. If there’s a stranger present, they won’t know what the f*** we’re talking about because we’ll probably be referencing something that happened in 1998.”