Suede remember their first gigs: “For the first three years, we just weren’t very good”

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Suede have reflected on their first gigs together as a band, recalling how: “For the first three years, we just weren’t very good.”In the latest instalment of NME’s Firsts video series, frontman Brett Anderson and bassist Mat Osman looked back at the first gigs they ever played.“When I was first in a band with Mat, we were in a band called Geoff and it was me and Matt and this guy called Gareth Perry.

We got a gig at Clair Hall which was in Haywards Heath and you [Mat] couldn’t make it so it was literally me and Gareth and it was just terrible,” recounted Anderson.He continued: “I had this really really tricky 12-string that the action was really high, I couldn’t really play it.

It must have sounded like such shit, but that was the first gig I ever did. It was kind of embarrassing.”Anderson then shed light on the early days of Suede, looking back at their first show and how bad they were.“The first Suede gig which was in like 1990 or something in the White Horse, inevitably these first gigs you’re rubbish but I think there’s something quite lovely about that you know?,” shared the band’s frontman.“There’s something quite lovely about not being able to do it and overcoming that kind of thing and being resilient.”He continued: “For the first three years, we just weren’t very good and that ended up being quite a strength because I think bands that aren’t very good aren’t able to ape the current trendy genre and if we had been better musicians, we would have sort of ended up sounding like some kind of baggy band or something.”A post shared by Suede (@suedehq)“We couldn’t do that so we sort of learned to become us didn’t we?