Spot on. Saw brett on skavlan and he was so stoic, Pride and put together. Soft spoken and intelligence. The fact that he is a married man with a family has enhanched the mature personality i saw in him in the britpop era. He says night thoughts are inspirered by the dark sids of being a parent. Cant wait to get my copy. Loved that he said cheers(so british) to the scans when the went on stage to play. Damon is great too, but maybe trying to hard to be "hip" in a sense. I perfer brett much more than stuck up Bernard butler
i dont really like damons music at all except modern life and a few songs here and there but i always read an interview because hes good at them and has interesting things to say about music in general. i own no blur records or goriilaz records and dont really care to. as for the dark side of being a parent that i can now more visibly feel than ever as my son julian, named for the less than zero character and not after his own son which i later realized was a bit cringy when i was listening to julians eyes. i didnt want people to think that he was named after his son. uugh but anyway hes a neat guy and i think we do have commonalities to our personalities and social status though mine was probably a bit scarier rather than sad but i also think that many of these imagined qualities are not good for anyone. i dont really get on with his idea of mystique vs transparency though etc etc. as for butler well i love that man and again we share some negative qualities that might make me more sympathetic to him. im also a very intense person whom some have trouble being around as i also have some rigid ideas and am not as flexible as i could be. the seriousness you get from not being listened to or not being taken very seriously by those you find to lazy and worthless in the first place is a big one i think. i have kind of a weird relationship with the band as i knew nothing about them before i herd them music after they broke up. a similar artists option was offered when i was listening to a new moz album and there debut came up as a listening option so i chose. i guess what im saying is that many seem to make a lot about the mystique of the image or if they were "seedy" etc didnt even register so it kind of makes it harder for me to connect to suede fans sometimes. they think of the songs as some fantasy of a world they dont live in and dressed up as fans to play the part and adopt the ideas, this is not a negative as i did this with moz and many others myself, but to me it was just that the songs were already singing my life which was strange to me. for example i love a new morning to death and didnt get the lack of cred it got for not being "dark" (god i hate that description) as that wasnt what attracted me to the band but a certain segment surely was. a new morning to me felt very suede as i know what its like to be at the low point of that situation as well. it seemed very suede to me
did you like any of the solo albums. the debut is about half great half bland. some songs were just so good but some of the others left feeling nothing. wilderness i love though is has problems with repeating tracks and being short so i dont think people feel its an album proper but rather like an extended ep though not enough to be a lp i guess. i think slow attack is my fav but i also really like many of the songs on black rainbows which i always wonder if it was a response to radioheads in rainbows whcih has a neat meaning when you look it up. i really liked the song the exiles which im assuming given bretts love of films is based on the movie with some perha[s personal overtones. love the lyrics though.
the exiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mRGYilUe4
the words:
"You're playing with matches
Got paper cuts from paper planes
An endless majesty
Within the pattern of the rain.
Your hatred is weakness
Your carelessness is no mistake
There's no stupidity
Within the chances that you take
And it feels like endless nights
And it feels like jealous rage
Setting all the clothes alight
I am burning, I'm still learning
All our houses have been shut
All our races have been played
Setting fire to paper planes
I am burning, I'm still learning
You show me the exiles
With paper cups and paper plates
There's endless majesty
Within the chances that they take
And it feels like endless nights
And it feels like jealous rage
Setting all the clothes alight
I am burning, I'm still learning
All our houses have been shut
All our races have been played
Setting fire to paper planes
I am burning, I'm still learning
I'm still learning
Setting fire to paper planes
I am burning, I am burning
I'm still learning
I'm still learning"
just excellent though i think the first few times i think i heard all our horses have been shot/all our races have been played