Suede played an incredible and magical gig in Porto Coliseum last Friday!
The gig was very intense, a lot of rock songs in the beginning without stops between the songs. Brett was with the devil inside him and almost didn't rested for a minute. He was always in the first row, close to the grids (where I took a photo with him) and he went a lot of time to the middle of the crowd during The Drowners and Can't Get Enough. The public was hysterical and really happy with Brett's performance, actually I think that this was the best public I saw in Suede shows! In the break for the encore, we kept singing the "La La La" from Beautiful Ones until the band returned, which was a nice surprise for them and made Brett do a beautiful and silly dance with his legs. The singer told also nice things about Portugal, about Portuguese people and about our Coliseum. It is special for someone that lived almost all of his life in Porto to hear this things.
For me, the highpoint of the night was when they played This Time! If I'm not wrong, it was only the third ever they played this song and it is one of my favourites. It is so romantic and nostalgic song, I remember to listen to it repeatedly when I bought Sci-Fi Lullabies a lot of years ago. One of the best collaborations of Richard Oakes and Brett Anderson and, as I said, stands as one of my favourites with Trash, Filmstar, Beautiful Ones and Europe Is Our Playground.
The Living Dead was a very special moment too, Brett looked like an actor, performing a very sensitive and sad scene.
The classics were always powerful and the public enjoyed them as it was the first time they ever listened to it.
She's In Fashion is back to the setlist and in an acoustic version. Very suave and elegant!
The new songs sound great too, I'm glad they played Snowblind, pure rock n' roll!
It was a pity that they left out Barriers but I'm glad they didn't forget For The Strangers and Sabotage!
Resuming the concert in one sentence, it was the best live performance I ever saw in my life!
Check here This Time!
Setlist:
Still Life
Snowblind
It Starts and Ends With You
Trash
Animal Nitrate
Filmstar
Sometimes I Feel I'll Float Away
Sabotage
The Drowners
Can't Get Enough
This Time
The Wild Ones
The Living Dead
For the Strangers
So Young
Metal Mickey
Beautiful Ones
She's in Fashion
New Generation
