When Suede step out onto the stage for this summer’s big Heritage Live outdoor show at Audley End, they’ll have 10,000 adoring fans roaring their approval before them. With smash hits such as Trash, Beautiful Ones and Saturday Night, plus classic tracks from nine hit albums including three that reached No 1 on the setlist, Suede’s Saffron Walden show promises to be a spectacular night. But it wasn’t always like that – in their early days there were often more people on stage than there were in the audience! And, as he looked ahead to the big Audley End show on Thursday, August 1 that also features Johnny Marr and Nadine Shah, Suede’s bass player Mat Osman revealed it was those difficult early shows that helped them become the award-winning, multi-million-selling band they are today.
“I think people forget that we’d gone three or four years being completely ignored,” said Mat as he looked back on the group’s formative years. “We were completely out of step with the times. We spent a long time playing pubs to four or five people.
We regularly did gigs where we outnumbered the audience. But the thing about that was that it gave us a chance to learn and improve - lots of bands don’t get that. Read more: The Essex railway experience where you can learn to drive a train Read more: Well-loved Dick Turpin pub on A127 to shut its doors for good next month “We made our mistakes in private, or as near to it as you could be with five people in the audience.
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