Suede and Derek Jarman, Clapham Grand, July 12, 1993

Now this is a treat (though not particularly great quality).

In the summer of 1993, I produced and promoted a one-off concert by Suede with Derek Jarman supplying the backdrop films. Along with concert collaborators David Lewis, Andy Crabb and James Mackay, we cut this little memoir from the available footage (just 2 camcorders). Special thanks to Jason Collier for operating one of the cameras and running the edit.

I always rather liked it - and having found a VHS of some of the highlights, I thought I'd digitise it and upload it.

Enjoy.

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Music

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• Suede
• Derek Jarman
• Concert
• Clapham Grand

[chekybeetle]

does anyone know where i can find the full version of this show????

this show is amazing! but i think there are some songs missing in this video, my insatiable one, she's not dead, still life etc.

I saw couple of videos of this show and they are all from a website of korean fan club, but i couldnt read korean,

anyone knows where i can find a full version of this show? any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[MikeChristie]

@chekybeetle Still Life is featured in this video. There were a couple of songs with Siouxie Sioux and Chrissie Hynde that we weren't allowed to film (so they're missing). Doubt you find much more complete film than this but u never know...

[FA8T]

That can't surely be a dedication to Derek Jarman at the end, he died in 1994. Unless i got it wrong. xx

[MikeChristie]

Derek watched the concert from the balcony. His pre-show speech is on my account as a separate clip. It's a good memory. x

[FA8T]

Yes just watched it; he was such a sweet loving man. I watched his famous face 2 face interview when i was about 15 and was utterly transfixed. He always held such heavy opinions so beautifully lightly. That was what made him so memorably wonderful. xxx

[MikeChristie]

That's a very astute observation.

I was privileged to know him for the last 4 years of his life.

x

[RingleaderOfTheLeos]

Wow, a great document! Waited to see THIS for aaaages so now finally!! Thanks very much Mike, I mean it. The very first Suede era was tremendously evocative and powerful....amazing version of High Rising here..."stom making me older, start making me new"....sigh!

[luqas99]

I can't express how good this is... Derek Jarman's art and Suede's - intelligent, brave, inspired, unique, it's got to be the most avante-garde concert ever, and I don't care about the video quality, this is the GREATEST live show I've ever seen, it's just incredible! Some of favourite ever songs, and I think I know where they got 'Dog Man Star' from now. Thanks again for preserving this, MikeChristie, I won't ever get tired of watching it.

[bentswoodboy76]

Thanks for sharing this this. It was pretty amazing.

[sadysady65]

I was a suede fan living in london at this time. How could i have missed this?? I was exactly the sort of pretentious bohemian type who would have wet myself at the combination of suede and derek jarman! And i was just down the road in brixton. Oh well - at least it was captured on video and i can see some of the magic. The version of high rising here is absolutely achingly beautiful.

[gazk116]

just posted the pretenders cover :)

[luqas99]

@guybf Wet dream

[thetattytruth]

because it looks ridiculous?

[musicalsimsy]

She's called Avy, from the band Sharkboy who were signed to the same label as Suede.

[qarapalida]

this is cathartic