Suede played an intimate gig in the round at the Southbank Centre’s Clore Ballroom last night, launching both their new record, Antidepressants, and their run of gigs at the London arts institution.
Brett Anderson, as ever, had sweated through a white shirt within a couple of songs, greeting the crowd with a cheery “hello Bermondsey”. After the band had rattled through the new album, Anderson announced that “we are the anti-nostalgia band, otherwise known as Suede”, before the group played an encore of tracks selected solely from records released after their reformation in 2010.
They’ve previously described Antidepressants as their “post-punk” record, standing in contrast to previous LP Autofiction’s punk-inspired, more direct sound, but on last night’s evidence it’s perhaps more fair to say that it’s a post-punk record if you consider the records made by Wire and The Fall after the year 2000 – fairly dense and heavy. One song seems to share a riff with the great ‘Fall Sound’ from Fall Heads Roll. Suede’s setlist from the Clore Ballroom can be seen below and further details about their forthcoming Southbank Centre gigs are available here.
Setlist: Suede at Southbank Centre, August 26, 2025
‘Disintegrate’
‘Dancing With The Europeans’
‘Antidepressants’
‘Sweet Kid’
‘The Sound And The Summer’
‘Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star’
‘Broken Music For Broken People’
‘Trance State’
‘Criminal Ways’
‘Trance State’
‘June Rain’
‘Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment’
– encore –
‘Snowblind’
‘She Still Leads Me On’
‘Personality Disorder’
‘Shadow Self’
‘No Tomorrow’
‘Tides’
‘Turn Off Your Brain And Yell’
‘The Only Way I Can Love You’
‘It Starts And Ends With You’
‘Outsiders’
