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Suede Star Attacks Revival Trend(ie Blur)

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BBC report......

Bernard Butler, former guitarist with indie heroes Suede, has attacked the current trend of 1990s bands embarking on high-profile reunions.

He said: "There's an awful lot of Britpop reunions going on at the moment and I find it embarrassing personally.

"I think it's got no relevance to what's going on at the moment."

Blur and The Verve are the biggest Britpop bands to have made comebacks. Butler is now a producer, working with acts like Duffy and Black Kids.

He was speaking after receiving the Music Producers' Guild Award for producer of the year, which also doubles as the Brit Award for best producer.

Asked whether he had received any offers to get his old band back together, he told BBC News: "I've never had an offer to do anything as Suede.

Blur, one of the biggest bands of the 1990s, are now back together

"I'm obsessively opposed to nostalgia. I hate the idea of it. It doesn't work. And it doesn't interest with me at all.

"What's important is not what I did last week, it's what I'm going to do next week. I made great records - I love them. My kids play them now. But that's for them and everyone else."

Of the raft of current reunions, he said: "I know it's good fun and everything and sure, you can't deny someone a good night out but personally I just feel uncomfortable with nostalgia.

"If I could dedicate six months of my life to one thing, would it be somebody who's doing something that's interesting and totally new, or something that reflects something I did 15 years ago?

"You couldn't possibly be a human being and be motivated by that."

Butler did reunite with Suede singer Brett Anderson in 2004 - but under the guise of a new band, The Tears. They folded after just one album.

Suede were one of the most adored Britpop bands, effectively kicking off the scene when they made it big in 1992 with indie anthems like Metal Mickey, Animal Nitrate and Stay Together.

The Verve, led by Richard Ashcroft, buried the hatchet last year to headline festivals including Glastonbury and V, and release a warmly-received comeback album Forth.

Blur, meanwhile, will play a string of major shows this summer and are heavily tipped to top the bill at this year's Glastonbury.

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Why is Bernard Butler so against nostalgia? There are bands and artists (The Rolling Stones spring to mind) who've been performing the same/similar sets for years. They've been doing so because people are willing to pay large amounts of money to see them and because their fans demand it. I never saw Blur live the first time around and cannot wait to get my first opportunity to watch them at Glastonbury.

And whilst Butler might have gone on to success in production, his own musical projects didn't really take off. As a solo artist he was crap, The Tears were Suede-light and although i liked what he did with David McAlmont they never achieved anything big.

Contrast this with Blur. Coxon became a pretty successful artist in his own right. And Albarn has been behind some brilliant and innovative (as well as highly successful) projects. Mali Music was brilliant, Gorillaz are enormously successful and The Good The Bad & The Queen were highly regarded. Although performing old songs in the summer, if Blur do go on to produce anything new it'll almost certainly be cutting edge and contemporary.

Butler has stick his sour grapes up his arse.

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i think the reunion would be cool, i was never a huge fan but i would certainly watch them if they really are going to be at Glasto this year.

i liked a few Suede tracks back in the day, again i was never a huge fan.

Bernard Butler might be singing a different tune if his producing career had never taken off

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Again with the "relative today" comments from Butler, what the hell does it mean, i know we all have discussed it in loads of posts but bloody hell, i would have thought as an "artist", he would appreciate all types of music, and styles etc, rrrrrrrraaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

I wasnt a suede fan though, so they were never relative to me :lol:

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