Suede debuted a new song dedicated to their loyal fanbase at a show in Portsmouth last night – watch ‘Tribe’ below.
The band are currently on the road on a UK headline tour supporting their 10th studio album ‘Antidepressants’, which was released in September, and on Saturday (January 31), they made a stop at Portsmouth’s Guildhall, where they played the new song for the first time.
Frontman Brett Anderson introduced ‘Tribe’ by telling the crowd, “We’re going to play a brand new song you don’t know”, before saying it was a song for “the insatiable ones, the wild ones, the beautiful ones”, in reference to three of the band’s classic songs. “You are my tribe!” he concluded.
The urgent track is built around a trademark shimmering guitar line from Richard Oakes, with Anderson declaring, “You are my tribe, I am your saint”. Check out fan-captured footage here:
Suede played:
‘Disintegrate’
‘Dancing With The Europeans’
‘Antidepressants’
‘Trash’
‘Animal Nitrate’
‘The Drowners’
‘Personality Disorder’
‘By The Sea’
‘Filmstar’
‘Outsiders’
‘It Starts And Ends With You’
‘Tribe’
‘June Rain’
‘She Still Leads Me On’
‘Shadow Self’
‘Trance State’
‘Life Is Golden’
‘So Young’
‘Metal Mickey’
‘Beautiful Ones’
‘The Only Way I Can Love You’
‘Saturday Night’
The NME Godlike Genius recipients’ tour continues throughout February, and is set to conclude at the Brighton Centre on February 21. Find any remaining tickets here.
Suede’s remaining ‘Antidepressants’ tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
02 – Bristol, Beacon
03 – Guildford, G Live
05 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
06 – Liverpool, Un Mountford Hall
07 – York, Barbican
09 – Lincoln, The Engine Shed
10 – Norwich, The LRC, UEA
11 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
13 – Sheffield, Octagon
14 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall
16 – Coventry, HMV Empire
17 – Bath, Forum
19 – Nottingham, Rock City
20 – Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
21 – Brighton, Centre
Ahead of the release of ‘Antidepressants’ last year, Anderson spoke to NME, and declared, “I don’t think there’s any other band of our generation that are still making records as vital as the records we’re making”.
“I don’t think there’s any other band that look at making records as something other than a souvenir for a tour or something like that. I feel that we’re still making exciting music, pushing our sound and not just stuck as a self-parody. I never wanted to be the kind of band that rests on their laurels,” he said.
On how the band manage to keep pushing forward, he added: “We can talk about [the ’90s], but I’ve not got anything interesting left to say about it. It doesn’t interest me that much. The last thing I ever wanted Suede to be was a nostalgia act. I’ve always felt like we’re out on our own. I felt like we were out on our own in ‘92, when no one wanted to sing about British life, and we were the only people doing it. I think we survived and now we’re out on our own.
“The zeitgeist shifts and moves around. Sometimes we resonate with that and sometimes we’re diametrically opposed to the zeitgeist, but we just carry on doing our own thing.”
The band played the new album in full at London’s Southbank Centre in August, the first night of their takeover of the arts complex.
