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The tour begins in Glasgow at the OVO Arena and will head to Leeds and then Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena. They will spend two nights in Cardiff at the Utilita Arena before playing the O2 Arena in London. They’ll wrap up the run with nights in Birmingham, Nottingham and Bournemouth. 

In a review of their joint UK run in 2024, Clash said, “As it transpires, one of the few allies Suede can count on in British music are Manic Street Preachers. Literate, devoutly non-laddish indie rock, the pair are honorary members of the awkward squad, influencing the mainstream while facing antithetically against it. Hence this tour: Manic Street Preachers and Suede on the bill, swapping positions dependent on who the ‘home team’ – the headliner – is deemed to be that night.”

The band’s parallels has been reflected not only in their sound but also in similar moments in their careers. James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers spoke about this to NME ahead of the band’s 2022 North American run. He recalled the 1994 European tour with Suede, “I vividly remember those gigs because Richey [Edwards, now missing guitarist] was coming back from what you might call his emotional event and was insisting that he wanted to come on the road.” He spoke to the ways band had to adjust, saying “we were treading softly with Richey at some points,” But found commonalities in this with their tour mates: “Suede had lost Bernard Butler as their guitarist and were going through the transition of Richard Oakes coming into the band.” Commenting on both their careers as well as their performance, Bradfield said “[Suede] kind of share the same path as us. They’ve been through a few things and they’re still here.” 

In February 2025, Manic Street Preachers released their 15^th studio album, ‘Critical Thinking.’ It peaked at Number 2 on the UK Official Album charts and received 4 out of 5 stars from The Guardian, The Times and NME. 

Suede released their tenth studio album, ‘Antidepressants’ in September 2025. It also peaked at Number 2 on the UK Official Album charts, nodding again to the parallels in Suede and Manic’s careers. The album received a 9/10 from Line of Best Fit and an 8/10 from Clash. 

Tickets go on sale at 9:30am BST Friday May 1. Find access to those here. 

Let’s not forget Suede’s competition, Blur, Oasis and Pulp to name just a few rivals in the ‘Britpop’ era of British music. However, Suede often fall an unsung hero in conversation about the champions of the 90s, despite it being them who very well started the entire ‘Britpop’ movement.

At a time when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains were drowning others out with their grunge and heavy raw musical prowess, it was Suede who dug their heels in and offered a glamorous, romanticised alternative.

Suede’s debut album won a Mercury Prize for their 1993 self-titled debut album. Mind you this is a feat neither Pulp, Oasis or blur ever achieved.

After the release of their tenth studio album ‘Antidepressants’ , Anderson has claimed that in the present day, Suede stand at the top of the podium when it comes to vital music making. To be fair to him, it does seem the band are set to walk the walk. The Official Charts have announced they are on course for a first number one in 26 years.

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“I’m really proud of the kind of position we seem to have found ourselves in, in the musical landscape. I don’t think there’s any other band of our generation that are still making records as vital as the records we’re making.”

We currently live in a Music space where Oasis are dominating the headlines by simply belting out their bangers from the past, though this is a rather special tour, Suede have always been set on rolling with the punches and making music in the present.

“We can talk about the 90s, but I’ve not got anything interesting left to say about it,”

“It doesn’t interest me that much. The last thing I ever wanted Suede to be was a nostalgia act. I’ve always felt like we’re out on our own. I felt like we were out on our own in ‘92, when no one wanted to sing about British life, and we were the only people doing it. I think we survived and now we’re out on our own.”

The one thing Suede may not have on the three headed dog of ‘Britpop’ is longevity. Suede’s flame doesn’t seem to burn as bright as it used to, especially compared with Cocker and the Gallaghers.

Suede’s upcoming tour is definitely one for the people as they take to intimate venues across the country. The band will begin their travels in early 2026 as they take their new record on the road.

Tickets can be found here and the dates are as follows:

• January 30: Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall
• January 31: Portsmouth, Portsmouth Guildhall
• February 2: Bristol, Bristol Beacon
• February 3: Guildford, G Live
• February 5: Edinburgh, Usher Hall
• February 6: Liverpool, Mountford Hall
• February 7: York, Barbican
• February 9: Lincoln, The Engine Shed
• February 10: Norwich, The LCR, UEA
• February 11: Cambridge, Corn Exchange
• February 13: Sheffield, Octagon Centre
• February 14: Newcastle, O2 City Hall
• February 16: Coventry, HMV Empire
• February 17: Bath, Bath Forum
• February 19: Nottingham, Rock City
• February 20: Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion
• February 21: Brighton, Brighton Centre

The British icons 10th studio album is set to hit the shelves on September 5 and will be their first release since 2022’s ‘Autofiction’. The album has already been previewed with four singles – the title track ‘Antidepressants’, ‘Disintegrate’, ‘Trance State’, and ‘Dancing With The Europeans’ – which hint at the band moving towards a more frentic, post-punk direction compared to their usual ‘art-rock’ sound.

The ‘Animal Nitrate’ rockers will kick off their 2026 tour on January 30 in Folkestone before heading to Portsmouth, Liverpool, Cambridge and more. Keep reading to see every tour date and see if the Britpop legends are heading near you.

Tickets will go on sale at 9am on Friday August 29, and you’ll be able to buy tickets from here.

Frontman Brett Anderson recently spoke to NME about the inspiration behind the band’s latest single, ‘Dancing With The Europeans, being “a gig we did a couple of years ago in Spain” as well as opening up about the power of playing live music.

In the interview, Anderson said: “Playing live is all about confidence – or the illusion of confidence, which is the same thing. People don’t want to see a stumbling, apologetic performer – they want to see someone who seems to command a sense of magic.

“It’s a quasi-religious thing. The lead singer is the high priest and the audience are the acolytes. That sounds hierarchical, but you’re all after the same thing. You’re all after the sense of connection: you’re doing something that’s bigger than any individual. We have it in politics, we have it in sport, and we have it in music as well.” 

Anderson continued, highlighting the importance of connection: “When it goes well with Suede, I do feel like there’s a real magic in the room. I’ve learned to get better at manufacturing that magic, I love getting up close to the audience physically. I love touching them, getting that feedback, diving in there. I love the messy drama of playing gigs.”

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The full dates for Suede’s 2026 UK tour are as follows: 

January

30 – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall

31 – Portsmouth, Guildhall

February

02 – Bristol, Beacon

03 – Guildford, G Live

05 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall

06 – Liverpool, Uni Mountford Hall

07 – York, Barbican

09 – Lincoln, The Engine Shed

10 – Norwich, The LRC, UEA

11 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange

13 – Sheffield, Octagon

14 – Newcastle, 02 City Hall

16 – Coventry, HMV Empire

17 – Bath, Forum

19 – Nottingham, Rock City

20 – Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

21 – Brighton, Centre

Head here to find tickets for the tour. ‘Antidepressants’, Suede’s 10th studio album, will be released on September 5 and is available for pre-order from here.

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‘Antidepressants’ is Suede’s 10th album, and their first since 2022’s ‘Autofiction’, recorded with producer Ed Buller, who’s been working with the band since the early ‘90s. It’s set to be a dark and moody record, exploring how detached the modern world can be.  

Lead singer Brett Anderson shares in a statement: “If ‘Autofiction’ was our punk record, ‘Antidepressants’ is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called ‘Antidepressants’. This is broken music for broken people.” 

Their new single ‘Disintegrate’ perfectly encapsulates this idea, with gritty black-and-white visuals of the band’s performance, intercut with clips of decaying plants.  

In addition, Suede have announced ‘Suede Takeover’, a four-night concert series spread across London’s Southbank Centre. The first two concerts will be held at the Royal Festival Hall, the third — a “unique and unamplified experience”, will be an off-mic performance at the Purcell Room, and their final show will be their first full orchestral headliner, held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.  

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The full tracklist for ‘Antidepressants’ is as follows: 

1) Disintegrate 

2) Dancing With The Europeans 

3) Antidepressants 

4) Sweet Kid 

5) The Sound And The Summer 

6) Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star 

7) Broken Music For Broken People 

8) Trance State 

9) Criminal Ways 

10) June Rain 

11) Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment 

‘Antidepressants’ drops on 5 September and ‘Suede Takeover’ runs from 13-19 September. You can pre-order ‘Antidepressants’ here. 

The new song and album moves away from their typical rock genre, and embraces a new, experimental, post-punk style, performed in sprechgesang mode. It contains their true Suede traits, but introduces a new option and genre for the Britpop band. Fans captured the performance of the unreleased song, which you can watch below.

Their performance of ‘Antidepressants’ has been extremely well received by fans, with listeners taking to X to express their excitement for the band’s new sound alongside their eagerness for the release.

Dear X, Suede’s new song Antidepressants! I like it!

— childchild (@childchild) June 23, 2024

The five piece were headlining the Big Top Stage on the Saturday of this year’s festival, and attracted a huge crowd, alongside stirring anticipation for the band’s new album and era. This year’s festival held a star studded lineup, with performances throughout the day from Pet Shop Boys, Blossoms, and Keane. The Sunday lineup does not disappoint either, with sets from the iconic rock band Greenday, alongside Simple Minds and Zara Larsson.

Suede’s new album will be their first since ‘Autofiction’, however in the past two years they have released deluxe editions of albums such as ‘Autofiction’, which included the loved but unreleased song ‘The Sadness In You, The Sadness In Me’, and ‘Bloodsports’, which was released earlier this year and included eight new songs, such as ‘Nothing Can Stop Us’, ‘No Holding Back’, and ‘What Violet Says’. However, fans are still being left in anticipation as the band has not yet confirmed when the new album will be released, and ‘Antidepressants’ is yet to reach any streaming platforms. So far, there is very little information known about their new album apart from the fact that it is “much more experimental”, which Mat Osman, Suede’s bassist, told NME in 2022.

There is hope for more information and new music as the band embark on their co-headline UK and Ireland tour with the Manic Street Preachers. The two iconic 90s rock bands are travelling to Cardiff, Manchester, London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Margate, and Dublin, and you can find any remaining tickets for their tour here. Following the tour, Suede will then perform at Heritage Live on August 1st. This huge outdoor show in Essex will see performances from Suede, Johnny Marr from The Smiths, and Nadine Shah, you can find tickets here.

Since reforming after a performance for the Teenage Cancer Trust Foundation in 2010, after being broken up since 2003, the band have seen lots of popularity, as fans loved ‘Bloodsports’, their first album after reforming, and loved ‘Nightsports’ even more, which is unsurprising considering Bowie labelled them as a future “institution” that deserved recognition from the Royal Family.

The two bands toured together across the United States last year and are preparing to do two shows together again in Japan, this upcoming winter. The bands are replicating a 1993 European Tour they both did together in a similar manner.

On the evidence of previous tours, when both Manic Street Preachers and Suede head towards the UK and Ireland in June and July of next year, each band will play around 75 minutes, alternating who plays last night by night. A breakdown on who is playing last can be found below.

Talking to BBC Breakfast about the tour earlier this morning (October 6^th), Manic Street Preachers bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire, said: “We’ve both got a dedicated fanbase, but we do share a gene pool and a rabid denomination of fans, it’s because we never belonged to anything apart from ourselves. We were never part of grunge, we never part of Britpop. And we just looked better than anyone back then anyway.”

Suede frontman, Brett Anderson added: “It’s really inspiring to have a band that you love playing with you. It’s like a friendly competition.”

The frontman for Manic Street Preachers, James Dean Bradfield spoke of the two bands before heading to tour the United States last year as he said: “A lot of bands were quite short on glamour at that point. They shared the same DNA with us of trading on an underground customised glamour. They had these dystopian, J.G. Ballard landscapes in a lot of the songs, so along those lines we definitely fitted. We were both quite visceral live bands too. Brett is one loud motherfucker on stage! They kind of share the same path as us. They’ve been through a few things and they’re still here.”

Suede are currently gearing up for a selection of UK headline shows in early December, to promote and support their album Autofiction, which came out last year.  Manic Street Preachers are currently recording a follow up to 2021’s The Ultra Vivid Lament, whilst bassist and lyricist Nick Wire has just released he’s second solo album, Intimism, earlier this year in July.

Tour dates:

28/06/2024 – Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod – Llangollen, Wales*
02/07 – Trinity College Dublin – Dublin, Republic of Ireland**
05/07 – Cardiff Castle – Cardiff, Wales*
10/07 – Edinburgh Castle – Edinburgh, Scotland*
12/07 – Castlefield Bowl – Manchester, England*
13/07 – Millenium Square – Leeds, England**
18/07 – Alexandra Palace Park – London, England**

Manic Street Preachers closing the show – *
Suede closing the show – **

The band’s bass player Mat Osman has also provided a statement concerning Autofiction: A Short Film, “With the Autofiction short film we didn’t want to make a normal performance video – instead we wanted to make a short film that overlapped at a The London Suede gig, with the band as just a minor part of the film, rather than at the centre. MrMr then came up with the idea of taking a crossroad in a couple’s life and playing with it in odd ways – moving backwards and forwards in time, seeing it through different sets of eyes, seeing their hopes and fears and memories all jumbled up too. Autofiction: A Short Film takes some of the themes of the album: youth and ageing, love and loss, fear and joy – sees them play out in the story of Chris and Hannah.”

AUTOFICTION: A Short Film, as premiered by @AnOtherMagazine, is available now: https://t.co/gip266KmrB

The film features Suede’s singles ‘She Still Leads Me On’ and ’15 Again’ from upcoming record AUTOFICTION. pic.twitter.com/q8ZchRxkbL

— Suede HQ (@suedeHQ) August 17, 2022

Although the group have held a long relationship with visual collaborations, Autofiction: A Short Film is their first foray into the short feature format. Since the early years of their historic career, The London’s Suede have linked the mediums of audio and visual in creative ways. In 1993, the group made a concert film with Derek Jarman which featured their set at London’s Clapham Grand.

 In 2015 the band released the feature Night Thoughts, showing the band’s live debut of their seventh studio album Night Thoughts. The feature’s footage also included the accompanying silent film which was directed by Roger Sargent. The film sired great critical success, at the time of release The Telegraph asked “Have Suede reinvented the album?”

The film’s audio partner Autofiction will mark the band’s ninth studio album and is set to be released on 16th September 2022 via BMG. The album was recorded at North London’s Konk studios and sees the band team up with long-time partner Ed Buller. Buller and The London Suede first worked together on the band’s debut single “The Downers”. Speaking on the album Brett Anderson has stated, “Autofiction is our punk record, No whistles and bells. Just the five of us in a room with all the glitches and fuck-ups revealed; the band themselves exposed in all their primal mess. Autofiction has a natural freshness, it’s where we want to be”

’15 Again’, premiered by @steve_lamacq on @BBC6Music, is out now for your listening pleasure.

This is the second single from Suede’s upcoming record AUTOFICTION. Listen and pre-order at https://t.co/cegJ0stYVH.

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— Suede HQ (@suedeHQ) August 3, 2022

The London Suede premiered the album’s first single “She Still Leads Me On” during a live show in Brussels this Spring. The track quickly became a huge hit and has been included in playlists compiled by BBC Radio2 and 6 Music. The single acquired rave reviews, The Sunday Times Culture described the track as “classic Suede” and CLASH said, “so tight, so inter-connected, and so innately physical”. The group then dropped the album’s second single “15 Again”, the track was premiered during Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music show. The album has already been named “a superb new album” by The Times and has been tipped as “a superb new album” by The Times and “so moving, the punk ferocity protecting a deeply vulnerable core” by Mojo Magazine.

The London Suede are set to embark on tour in support of Autofiction, the series of live shows are scheduled for September and October 2022. Alongside a string of intimate shows at venues such as London’s Electric Ballroom, the group will also perform live and hold signing appearances in various record shops.

The London Suede Record Shop Tour

15/09/2022 – Banquet Records – Kingston (Live Performance)
16/09 – Rough Trade East – Shoreditch (Live Performance)
17/09 – Crash Records/Brudenell Social Club – Leeds (Live Performance)
18/09 – Rough Trade/Fleece – Bristol (Live Performance)
19/09 – HMV – Liverpool (Signing and Q&A)
19/09 – HMV – Manchester (Signing)
20/09 – Bear Tree Records – Sheffield (Signing)
20/09 – Rough Trade – Nottingham (Signing)
21/09 – Truck Records – Oxford (Signing)
21/09 – Fopp – Cambridge (Signing)
22/09 – Vinilo – Southampton (Singing)

The London Suede UK Tour

05/10/2022 – Electric Ballroom – London
06/10 – Electric Ballroom – London

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Click here to pre-order Autofiction.

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Suede in a live context, at the moment anyway, consists of long-term (arguably founding) members Brett Anderson, Mat Osman, and Simon Gilbert on vocals, bass, and drums respectively – with Richard Oakes and Neil Codling filling out the sound with guitars, backing vocals, and keys since well into the 2000’s. This has been the band’s line-up since their comeback album Bloodsports in 2013. If the critical and commercial reception of the band in this orientation is anything to go by, then Suede may be onto yet another success in an era that has almost forgotten about Britpop.

AUTOFICTION, the upcoming album from Suede featuring lead single ‘She Still Leads Me On’, is available to pre-order now from https://t.co/3DTE4GKm6z. pic.twitter.com/JmxeIZv2xl

— Suede HQ (@suedeHQ) May 23, 2022

While the ’90s in the UK were pretty much dominated by the cool new thing that was Britpop, the longevity of the genre was really to be desired. The guitar-driven attitude worked well for the 90’s but then the boisterous nature was seemingly dropped for something sleeker and more approachable in the 2000’s. Oasis forgot how to write good music in 1997 (I will stand by the fact that Be Here Now is an underrated gem), and Blur took the Britpop sound somewhere completely different after the whole Parklife debacle finished, you could argue that Jarvis Cocker kept the sound going for a while but anything he did outside of Pulp definitely went down a more spoken word route… not really Britpop is it. But Suede have survived. They may not have achieved the same great heights as some more common household names, but all of their output since 2013 has been solid. Respectable even, in a time when they could have been very easily forgotten.

When speaking of the new album in a press release, Anderson explained, “Autofiction is our punk record. No whistles and bells. Just the five of us in a room with all the glitches and fuck-ups revealed; the band themselves exposed in all their primal mess… Autofiction has a natural freshness, it’s where we want to be.”

Announcing via Twitter, the band said: “As you probably have been expecting, we are messaging today to let you know that Suede’s Coming Up tour dates will have to be postponed once more. For info about the Coming Up shows on mainland Europe, please watch this space. We hope to be able to announce more information about those dates – and more fun Coming Up stuff – in the not-too-distant future. Stay safe! – Suede HQ.”

The tour was originally set to take place last summer, but postponed until 2021 since coronavirus restrictions would not permit large music concerts from taking place at the time. In the wake of last year’s decision, the band uploaded a number of concert videos to Youtube, including memorable concerts at Sheffield’s Leadmill in 1993, London’s Roundhouse in 1996 and the Royal Albert Hall in 2010.

When postponed to 2021, the band recognised the new tour dates would coincide with the 25th anniversary of the ‘Coming Up’ album release. “The good news is that the postponement means that (a) we can add a couple of shows that we couldn’t fit in before, and (b) they’ll now take place exactly 25 years from Coming Up’s release – much more numerically satisfying,” they added. Suede last released music in 2018 with their eighth studio album ‘The Blue Hour’ to largely favourable reviews. “While there’s a comforting familiarity that comes with all things Suede, it’s wonderfully shrouded on ‘The Blue Hour’ by a very new, romantic and alluring strangeness,” Andrew Trendell said of the album for NME. “These are not hits to shake your bits to. Nor will these beats shake your meat. Rest assured, Suede remain the beautiful ones, but are just looking for beauty in ever more curious places.”

Last week Boris Johnson announced Britain’s roadmap out of lockdown, outlining steps towards a complete removal of all social restrictions on June 21st. Since the New Year, several acts have postponed their touring dates, while others – such as The Who and the 1975 – have cancelled planned tours altogether.

Suede’s updated touring schedule is as follows:

13/04/2021 – Cirque Royal – Brussels
14/04 – Tempodrom – Berlin
16/04 – TivoliVredenberg Ronda – Utrecht
17/04 – La Salle Pleyel – Paris
26/04 – Falconer – Copenhagen
27/04 – Annexet – Stockholm
03/11 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh
06/11 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
09/11 – O2 Academy – Leeds
10/11 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
11/11 – Alexandra Palace – London

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Davies and Butler have drip-fed fans three singles from the new record over recent months: the piano-led ballad The Breakdown; Texas-esque pop rock number Ten Good Reasons; and the jangly, guitar-driven Sabotage (Looks So Easy) which feels reminiscent of early 90s Suede. The latter came with an innovative, lockdown-inspired video.

While it was recorded in just fifteen days, the record has been four years in the making. Butler told Louder Sound he’d even feared the album might not see the light of the day: “I’d got used to the idea that the record might never emerge. Occasionally, I’d listen to it on my headphones if I was on the bus or something, I always had the same thought, ‘I wish I could go to a record shop and buy this‘.”

Glynneath-born Davies is no stranger to a collaboration, having teamed up with compatriots Manic Street Preachers for the sweet duet Dylan & Catilin in 2018, and appeared on Simple Minds’ 2018 album Walk Between Worlds. Davies, who last week delighted fans with a synth-drenched rendition of the Chris Isaak classic Wicked Game, outlined her and Butler’s no-nonsense approach to song-writing and recording on her Instagram recently: “I’d like to think we naturally slid into a Morrissey/Marr style dynamic without ever really talking about it. Like much of how it was made, we just got on and did it without procrastination. Some days we were so prolific we would knock out 2 or 3 finished songs. That’s a rare thing in this industry.”

The Suede veteran has dedicated the new album to Mako Sakamoto, his former bandmate in The Tears. Butler, who has previously described Sakamoto as “my friend, musical partner and hero“, posted an emotional tribute on his Instagram account this week.

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