Liven up, you're the home of rock!

We had a nightmare finding a babysitter on Saturday evening. My partner and I were off out to see Brett Anderson, formerly of Suede, and The Tears. Everyone and their dog were busy that night, but thankfully the in-laws helped out in the end. I say thankfully, but at the time it didn’t seem that way as I really am not a fan of Brett Anderson.

Once upon a time I was at the Reading festival and Suede was headlining one of the nights. My friend really wanted to go to see U2 at Wembley Stadium. I didn’t like U2 either, but they were the worse of two evils, and my friend was paying.

I was dragged kicking and screaming to see The Tears with my partner, surprisingly, I actually thought they were quite good, but I’ve heard some of the new Brett Anderson solo album and it’s failed to grow on me, so I’m it was with great trepidation that I headed out to the Wulfrun Hall.
 
We get to the venue just in time for Brett to take the stage. When we saw The Tears, he was very stationary, but this time round the first thing I noticed was that the posing was back. This was proper Freddie Mercury posing. Between tracks he kept urging us to liven up, after all, we’re from the home of rock right?

Right.

Which is why no one was to keen on dreary ballad after dreary ballad, which is unfortunately what was being peddled over the first 30 mins of the gig. After this though, the set transmogrified from bland, to blasting. Belting out Suede track after  Suede track, followed with some stuff from The Tears, followed by more Suede stuff. There was an acoustic interlude, which worked (they so rarely do), then finally ‘Beautiful Ones’ which came across as if it were being played by a souped up hardcore version of Suede.

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