America was not our playground

This is a funny one. Okay, Suede never broke America. And they never returned after CU. So one continent they weren't really liked. So US magazines covers can be counted on one hand, with one finger sticking out… as far as I know.

The headline here on NY music magazine The Big Takeover is "Don't weep for Bernard's guitar'. It's a rare pic with a strange scenery. And Richard is looking like Kurt Cobain!

The inside article is the first part of an interview with Brett and Simon. They are not over the split with Bernard yet. "You just can't work like that with three people who would die for the fucking band and one person who … was trying to destroy it."

Well, looking back a bit hard on Bernard, as a reunited Suede is playing most of his songs again.

By the Mediterranean sea

Although the mediterranean loved them as well. From the same HM period, this is a cover from Greece. The magazine is called Pop and Rock, which looks funny in Greek writing. I'm as clueless about what the inside article is telling. It has some band pictures, probably taken at a press conference.

This is one of the rare covers as well which has Brett in a live setting.

Tervetuloa Suedeakvaarion!

And from Asia back to Europe. Suede were huge as well in Scandinavia, and it is still their favourite region to play gigs.

This cover comes from Finland, when Head Music was released. All in Finnish, so I'm clueless about what they are saying, though the article is copyright Select, the long and gone UK monthly. The 5 page inside article has pictures from the CU period as well.

In Finnish grammar they seem to be writing SUEDEN, so who knows what 'historia on SUEDEN puolella' might mean.

Suede not illegal in Singapore

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.

Poster boys

So this is the cover of the Japanese tour program, and one of the inside pics of Brett with that legendary fringe.







No wonder the Japanese girls went wild.

Live in Tokyo

I don't know if the first nationwide or European tours of Suede had their own tour program. If anyone knows about it, contact me.

Anyway, the Japanese made their own. Printed on heavy paper, it has all the famous pictures of the best new band in Britain. The last picture has the band with a cat on Brett's lap. Don't know if it's Fluffington.

The Japanese tour had six dates in five cities. It was from here on that they won the hearts of the whole of the Far-East.

New generation

The DMS tour program has those great pics of the band with Richard looking very young and handsome. With all the members in suits and black clothes. Though Bernard had gone, they look into the camera as if they are gonna conquer the world. Indeed, DMS sounded as if they were ready for world domination, though the world was not entirely ready for that.

From Spain to Camber Sands

Yes, the run of gigs of the CU tour was unbelievable. They kept on touring and touring… the UK, Europe, Japan, the Far-East, the US, Canada, and back again.

The most simple of tour programs, it has all the official CU pics, band member profiles and a discography.

Give me Head, give me Head Music instead

The HM campaign ran all over 1999, bringing Suede to Europe and the Far-East again. No US dates this time round.

This is by far the best styled tour program of their career, with a very clear lay-out.

Suede touring again!

To celebrate the incredible news that Suede has reunited and is touring again shortly, I'm looking back at the official tour programs of the band. This comes from the ANM tour. The format is very similar to the HM tour program. One of Brett's finer quotes about the band. It has a short band history, the covers of all albums and singles until 2002, band member profiles and all tour dates, running from April 2002 till February 2003.