Dope might be, but Suede was not illegal in Singapore. So from Japan to South-East-Asia, Suede has been popular in countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, China and so on.
This cover comes from a free magazine e!culture in English, which brings clubbing news from Singapore. The inside article is an interview with Simon, who would later go and live in Thailand. It is just before the release of Singles, which had an accompanying VCD-release in Singapore. Simon is still talking about a next album that would be much darker than ANM, but that never materialized.
