Its funny. Last night I watched BBC at the Proms on BBC4 because Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and John Grant were singing versions of Scott Walker with a full orchestra. The music was cinematic and sad and reminded me of the best of Morricone and had all the drama of Suede's recent Night Thoughts album. I'm very tempted to buy five Scott Walker cds as a package deal on Amazon as they are great value. Each song tells a story and reminded me of great songs like Late Night Maudlin Street.
From the books I've read it looks like it all went down the drain for Suede after Bernard's father died and the rest of the band expected Bernard to carry on straight away as if nothing had happened. He was in mourning while surrounded by a band intent on enjoying themselves constantly. The final straw was the interview he did for a guitar magazine where he said Brett was unbearably slow and couldn't play any instruments. They've buried the hatchet since then and formed The Tears but their album was a disappointment. Perhaps that should be a lesson to us all to stop hoping for any reunion between Marr and Moz, because the output from that could be disappointing considering the weight of expectation.
