WHEN HE worked at the box office of the capital’s ULU 30 years ago, Suede drummer Simon Gilbert always kept tickets back from the choicer gigs to sell to touts. “When [Suede] do shows, they’re still the same touts as before,” he says. “They don’t recognise me now, but I know exactly what they look like.”
The former toilet cleaner from Stratford-Upon-Avon has a talent for observation and recall. As a young punk, he was thrilled by Ray Stevenson’s 1978 scrapbook The Sex Pistols File. “That book fascinated me,” he says, “and, always in the back of my head, I wanted to do exactly the same if I ever got into a band.”
Consequently, his new pictorial documentary So Young is a deeply immersive trip back to the Suede world of 1991-93,…
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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021