PROFILE

Things About Brett

Name

Brett Lewis Anderson

Born

Haywards Heath, England

Birth date

29 September 1967

Education

Primary school: Lindfield Primary

Secondart school: Oathall Secondary

Alevel: Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry (C, C, C), studied at Haywards Heath Sixth Form College

University: Manchester University (major in Country Planning) → University College London (major in Architecture)

Achievements

Suede

The Tears

Eating habits

Vegetarian

Allergy to mushrooms

Like spicy food

First record bought

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush / Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols

(Resource from an interview in 1993 / thetears.org so I don't know which one is correct…)

First gig

New Order, Brighton, early 80's

Favourite artists

Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol

Influenced by

David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Smiths, The Fall, Scott Walker

Favourite film

Performance

Favourite book

1984

Favourite authors

Michel Foucault, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Michel Houllebecq

Songs he wish he had written

Across the Universe by The Beatles, NYC by Interpol

…and more…