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(2004 – 2006)

Many have wondered how two performers as volatile as Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson who had at one time nurtured such hatred for one another, were reunited after all this time. Anderson describes getting together with former bandmate Butler as such, “We went out for a drunken night. I’d called him and we went out for a curry and got drunk. Then the next day he came over with these tracks and that was that”. Though Butler and Anderson had not spoken since the days of Suede, Anderson claimed getting back in gear with Butler was not difficult. The band decided on being named after a line from a Philip Larkin poem, “Femmes Damnées”, which ends with the line: “The only sound heard is the sound of tears”.

Anderson also had this to say about the renewed partnership with Bernard Butler: “For years and years after Bernard left Suede it was me running the show, but now the stakes are raised. I feel like we are duelling with each other, in some kind of friendly competition. When we were at our best it was always like that, each trying to better each other.”

The band played their first ever live show on December 14, 2004 at the Oxford Zodiac. Things went as expected for the “new” band, and most new songs were received well by those attending the first set of shows. When asked during a concert by a fan to play the famous Suede song, The Drowners, Anderson replied saying, “Did somebody say they want us to play The Drowners? They came to the wrong gig”.
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