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Suede bassist. Author - The Ghost Theatre out now via Bloomsbury. Producer/composer. Didz at Quietus for musical stuff, Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath for books

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Joined November 2008
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3 years
Just a cat napping in a model village
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Acapella group doing Windows noises
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Day of the Dead drone show in Mexico
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4 years
Card game between the tallest, fattest and shortest men in Europe, 1913
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I’m more than OK with this
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Longest possible road-walk
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2 years
Autotuned husky (sound on, obvs)
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2 years
The plaques left on nuclear waste sites have to use non-technical language in case meanings are forgotten. Making them absolutely terrifying
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3 years
Jurassic Park scene with the dinosaur replaced by a cat
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1 year
Aw man. RIP Andy Rourke. A total one-off - a rare bassist whose sound you could recognise straight away. I remember so clearly playing that Barbarism break over and over, trying to learn the riff, and marvelling at this steely funk driving the track along. (pic - K Cummins)
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6 years
Tried on a scent I really liked at Joseph. When I asked the assitants if it was meant for men or women they exchenged looks, and then one said, 'I'd say it's multi-use.' Just got home and checked it online. It's a room spray.
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3 years
Artist Tyree Callahan replaced typewriter keys with colour pads to create a painting keyboard
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4 years
London tube map viewed from a plane
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8 years
Amazing stat in The Times. Of the 30 fastest 100 metres, 21 are by runners who've tested positive for drugs. The other 9? All Usain Bolt
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3 years
The three ages of a band, via cabbie conversations 1 - “Suede? Oh yeah, my daughter likes you” 2 - “Saw you guys at the Kilburn National back in the day” 3 - “Suede? Oh yeah, my dad likes you”
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6 years
I feel this Chinese poster for UK holidays may be slightly overselling the possibility of Nessie sightings.
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10 months
Please think about bunging my brother a couple of quid on publication day. I don’t want to have to support him when he’s older
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10 months
#TheLastDevilToDie is finally out TODAY! Please support amazing local bookshops if you can. Can't wait for you all to read it!
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2 years
Best goal ever?
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4 years
Just found out how alligators look under the surface of the water and they seem a little less scary
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6 years
Finally, like my peers Maya Angelou and Winston Churchill, I've been immortalised on a tube station whiteboard
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6 years
Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence." Mark said "Like who?" Skinner asked "Well, like Suede." There was a perfectly timed beat. "Never heard of them."
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6 years
You think you’re a jaded man of the world, that there are no wonders left to experience .. and then you see a man eating a mince pie between two pieces of buttered bread
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6 years
I do love a martini. Drink neat gin from the bottle and you’re an alcoholic. Stick it in a glass with an olive and suddenly you’re Noel Coward.
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6 years
I have a Mark E Smith story actually. Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck. (1)
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4 years
Every men’s website/magazine vastly overestimates how interested in watches I am
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1 year
Just heard ⁦ @Squeezeofficial ⁩ ‘s Up The Junction on the radio. Has there ever been a better short story in song form? I know Waterloo Sunset is the capital’s unofficial anthem but I think this might be the quintessential London song
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7 years
Cannot. Stop. Watching. This.
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Olağanüstü bir Performans..
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6 months
Never thought about this. The actors’ view from Cheers (TY to @rickhornby for the pic)
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6 years
Woke to the realisation that if I were to pop my clogs today then the headline - if indeed there were one - would be "'Pointless' brother dead at 51".
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1 year
So sad to hear of Steve Mackey’s passing. Wonderful musician and producer, and a true gentleman
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6 years
Is there any record that has a bigger discrepancy between the quality of the artwork and the quality of the music than this?
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1 year
You probably won’t have heard of him but my younger brother writes a bit too. Here, give him a go…
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Richard Osman
1 year
Delighted to announce the title of the new Thursday Murder Club novel is... 'THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE' Out on Sept 14th, and it's a cracker! You can pre-order it here, if that's the sort of thing you enjoy.
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4 years
It’s Buddy Holly’s birthday today. He seems like a figure from another age but if he were alive today he’d be younger than Woody Allen, Judi Dench and the Dalai Lama
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4 years
Kudos to the person who has gone through hundreds of Brian Eno tracks on YouTube just to comment 'Eno's what he's doing' under each one
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7 years
In my childhood visions of the future, one in which my bro could send a pic of a nun who looks like him to 500K phones, didnt really feature
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7 years
Here you go. A Nun who looks exactly like me...
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6 years
Location for today’s shoot. I love this band dearly but sometimes I do wonder what it would have been like to be in Duran Duran
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4 years
There are few things that deserve an actual WTF but here's one...
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1 year
If you’ve ever wondered how many people it takes to put on a Suede show, here’s all the lads…
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5 years
RIP Keith Flint. We played a LOT of festivals with them in the 90s and i always loved the moment when this quiet, chatty guy from backstage stepped out onto the stage and just transformed into this kind of monstrous ringmaster.
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6 years
Cutting the record at Abbey Road, so it seems like good time to look at those Tripadvisor reviews of the zebra crossing outside
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4 years
Phew. I need a lie down. That was fantastic. Thanks to @Tim_Burgess and @ed_buller but most of all you lot. I loved hearing what the songs/shows meant to you. Be safe.
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8 years
Live interactive map of world radio stations (via @JoshJoshJones ). Just listening to a Ukrainian English lesson.
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1 year
Someone just liked this pic from a decade ago. Still my favourite Suede T-shirt ever
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4 years
Wild Ones. I always feel like this song belongs to you lot more than us. It's the one song that lives out there in other people lives
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1 year
This was 13 years ago today. The reformed Suede is now officially a moody teenager
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5 years
Kudos to Radiohead for turning this hack into something worthwhile. Have at it kids.
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6 years
This is the longest straight-line walk you can take without hitting an ocean.
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4 years
Last picture of Laurel and Hardy together
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2 years
One of my favourite things about this tour is getting to watch the @Manics from side of stage every night. Stupendously, relentlessly great. Thank you to James, Nicky, Sean and Wayne for everything
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Autofiction straight in at number two in the UK charts is our biggest record since 1999. Thank you everyone who bought or streamed it this week, it means a lot. (Of course as soon as the Sunday Times book chart comes out @richardosman will steal my thunder)
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3 years
Sea otter getting her temperature checked
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2 years
First truck stop of the US tour. Not too shabby
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1 year
At Swedish immigration, the border guy says, ‘Bass player, huh? Pick or fingers?’ Me: ‘Pick, at the moment’ Him: ‘Right, I’m not letting you in then”
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4 years
Lovely tribute to Florian Schneider on the finish line of today's stage of the Tour De France
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3 years
Man, if my brother breaks the US before I do then I’m disowning him
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3 years
A piece in the ACTUAL @nytimes . For the record, I believe that what Britain really wants is a cup of tea and an early night.
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2 years
Just realised that I have 20K followers now. So if every one of them got 50 friends to follow me I’d still have 200,000 fewer than @richardosman
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7 years
When automated programme descriptions go bad....
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7 years
Amen
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2 years
Couple on date next to me. Food and drinks arrive. He asks if she takes milk in her coffee and when she says yes, gallantly pours it for her. Readers, it was her salad dressing.
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Joni Mitchell and David Hockney. Love love love this.
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Suede comic by ⁦ @The_Ren1981
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Hammersmith Odeon sign caught mid-change last night
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1 year
Very unfortunate advert placement in today’s Aberdeen Live Suede review
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5 years
Delighted to be able to announce that my debut novel, The Ruins, will be published by the good people at @RepeaterBooks next year.
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3 years
I’ve no idea why someone would fake up The National doing the Frasier theme but I’m glad they did
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2 years
At Heathrow. If only there was some way of knowing whether I should leave my bag unattended or not.
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6 years
Eleven months until we're living in Blade Runner world.
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Where, for you, is the absolute centre of London? Not necessarily geographically but where you feel truly in the middle of things? For me I think it's Bar Italia.
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Lovely hamper of Welsh produce: a gift from the @Manics waiting at our St David’s Hall dressing room. Cheese and whisky night in the van home, I think
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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they didn’t stop to think if they SHOULD”
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2 years
Damn. Terry Hall. Growing up he was that rarest of things -a pop star who was recognisably from your world. You could imagine him on the bus, smart-arsing at the back of class, in the pub. An inspiration, RIP
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My brother, @richardosman with a no 1 bestseller in the States and my niece @rubyosman_ explaining Chinese foreign policy in Time magazine. I’m only going to get one line in the family Christmas letter, aren’t I?
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1 year
My DMs are 90% other bass players talking about doing exactly the same thing with Barbarism Begins At Home. Love the idea that the day after Meat Is Murder came out there were hundreds of us, headphones on, dropping the needle over and over, saying 'fucking HELL, Andy'
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6 years
‘Elf’ is the millennials’ ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
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3 years
Just working with someone who didn’t know Suede really, and she was guessing who did what in the band. She reckoned I was the bass player so I asked what gave it away. “I dunno, you seemed most like a tree.”
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Just remembered that Suede were once in a studio that had been closed down for a week because Gary Glitter's wig-glue had gummed up all the plumbing.
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1 year
One of my favourite Suede pics ever
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29 years ago today, on 12th January 1994, Simon Gilbert from @suedehq addressed the House of Commons about lowering the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16. 🖤 With Stephen Fry and Pat Clements.
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4 years
Delighted that @ed_buller , producer of five Suede albums, will be joining us for @Tim_Burgess ‘s Dog Man Star #timstwitterlisteningparty tomorrow
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4 years
If you begin "Apollo 13" at 9:17pm ET tonight, Tom Hanks will utter the infamous, "Houston, we have a problem" line *exactly* 50 years after Jim Lovell said it for real - 10:08pm, on April 13, 1970
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4 years
Little Richard and Florian Schnieder gone in a week. The touch-paper for the whole damn 20th Century
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5 years
Now the real identity of the Coming Up third man can be revealed. (via @SuaveDavid )
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The rest of the world: The ‘fun size’ is the last word in Snickers miniaturisation Japan: Hold my beer… #riderwatch Tokyo
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British train companies - THIS is a good reason for a delay (and it was only a 5-min one)
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My hairdresser telling me that I have 'a lovely skull' seems like quite a back-handed compliment.
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4 years
That rarest of things, a picture where I look a shortarse, in today’s Sunday Times’ Relative Values
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6 years
I demand to know why I'm not featured on the Suede card of Britpop Top Trumps #itsafix #headswillroll
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5 years
brb - just moving all the Suede records at Amoeba from the L rack to the S rack, as god intended.
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Zoom in on this parrot. It’s worth it, I promise
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1 year
You shouldn’t need any excuse to listen to @StuartMaconie and @themarkrad on their wonderful @BBC6Music weekend morning show, but from 8am this morning they’ll be playing tracks from our debut on the occasion of its 30th anniversary
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He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently. (2)
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Simon and I, Edinburgh B&B, 1992ish. Love this pic
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I’m in a pub in Norwich called The Murderers. It has pics of famous killers and methods of execution on the walls. On one table a guy is shouting into his mobile BABES I JUST BOUGHT A LOAD OF VIAGRA AND I DON’T EVEN NEED IT, and at the other they’re playing D&D. My kinda town.
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4 years
Brett is as obsessed with cars as only a non-driver can be. Genuinely the worst sense of direction of any human being I've ever met
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6 years
Tragic news that my old friend Brett's lifetime has ended at just 51. #itsnoage #goodinnings
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5 years
Still laughing at the elderly guy on the flight to Zagreb who didn’t seem to grasp the concept of a festival. As we were getting off the plane he called after us: “Hope you win.”
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A Phd dissertation on women in early rock 'n' roll has been turned into this HUGE site. You will lose hours in this.
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8 months
The @Manics on absolutely blistering form in Taipei tonight. Come see them (and us) in Tokyo on Sat and Sun
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2 years
Go on, help a struggling writer out…
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Richard Osman
2 years
'The Bullet That Missed' is finally in the shops tomorrow! The gang are all back, and I hope you love it and it brings great cheer.
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🇺🇸 US news 🇺🇸 For the first time in 25 years Suede are touring the US, with our friends, the mighty @manics And I’ll be back around June 27 2023 when the good people at @overlookpress release my second novel, The Ghost Theatre in the States. Can’t wait.
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