As One: Remaking Suede

An up close, intimate and candid biography of the band during their remarkable second act.

This year will mark thirty-three years since Suede released their debut eponymous album and sixteen since their glorious and unexpected comeback in 2010.

Their two most recent albums - Autofiction in 2022 and Antidepressants in 2025 - both reached number two in the UK charts.

Based on exclusive and extensive interviews with the band, their family and friends, As One is an intimate and candid biography of one of the UK’s biggest band’s during the unlikely second act of a career that spans four decades. It is a book that studies the band from close up and afar, written by award-winning author Rodge Glass, who has been granted unprecedented access to the members at home, on stage, backstage, in the studio, rehearsing and promoting over the past three years. 

Suede have achieved what few reunited bands manage: continuing to create vital, career-best music while remaining one of the most electrifying live acts of their generation. As One is the first in-depth exploration of 21st Century Suede, offering illuminating portraits of both the five individuals and the band unit to reveal how
they’ve managed it.

The book documents Suede’s evolution from breakup to renewal, charting their reunion, five subsequent albums, and the enduring connection between band, music and audience over sixteen transformative years.

It is an honest, long-term interrogation of what it is really like to be in Suede. The book asks difficult questions about how great bands survive and thrive over time, many years after their first flush of success. How do you build back up from nothing? How do you reconnect with your audience, while avoiding simply rehashing old ideas? How do relationships in a band change with time? How do you remake Suede?

Rodge Glass is the award-winning author of eight books including three novels, a graphic novel, a collection of short stories and a hugely acclaimed biography – Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography, which won winner of Somerset Maugham Award for Non-Fiction. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, where he is the Convener of the MLitt in Creative Writing.

He has been a fan of Suede since he was fourteen years old, when their 1992 magazine covers became his wallpaper, early photo shoots peppering his bedroom walls. He recorded Suede songs off the radio when he was supposed to be doing homework. He listened to live recordings on tape until the tapes died. In the three decades since, he’s seen the band live in their heyday and at multiple celebratory, post-reunion shows.