Suede Live in Hong Kong
Mark Tjhung
AsiaWorld Expo, Thursday August 11
Hong Kong loves Suede. En masse, we love the dark Britpoppers like we adore few other bands, more, perhaps, than perennial Britpop leaders Oasis and Blur, and well ahead of the likes of Pulp. This frenzied and almost unparalleled reverence was on show on Thursday night as the Brett Anderson-led outfit returned to Hong Kong since 2007, armed with a heavy swag of all the Suede favourites.
Sadly, The Drowners – the group’s first single from the amazing self-titled breakout album – was absent. But it was one of the few hits omitted from a night that largely lived up to its billing – a Greatest Hits gig, where the ageing rockers merely stood and delivered faithful renditions of their best-loved tunes. From 1992’s Metal Mickey to 2002’s Obsessions – with Animal Nitrate, Trash, Beautiful Ones and Saturday Night, et al, all making an appearance – the gig spanned the entire five-album life of the band, with each song greeted by the crowd’s untiring shrieks of excitement.
Like the crowd, Brett Anderson, even at the ripe age of 43, was also indefatigable. He flitted lightly across the stage, climbed upon multiple amps, thrust the mic into the crowd, threatened occasionally to stage dive, and more than occasionally summoned the frenzied crowd into a huge chorus singalong. They duly obliged. That’s not always easy in Hong Kong – but for the Suede-faithful Anderson, it seems, has that magic – and timeless – touch.
Setlist
She
Trash
Filmstar
Animal Nitrate
To the Birds
By the Sea
We are the Pigs
Flashboy
Can’t Get Enough
Everything Flow
Obsessions
So Young
Metal Mickey
Wild Ones
New Generation
Beautiful Ones
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She’s in Fashion
Saturday Night
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