Mat Osman
@matosman.bsky.social
Suede bassist. Author - The Ghost Theatre out now via Bloomsbury. Producer/composer. Didz at Quietus for musical stuff, Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath for books
If you get a chance to see the Patti Smith 50th anniversary of Horses show just go. Absolutely magical night: no light show, no backdrop, no stacks of amps, just five phenomenal musicians and one of the greatest records of all time
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If you get a chance to see the Patti Smith 50th anniversary of Horses show just go. Absolutely magical night: no light show, no backdrop, no stacks of amps, just five phenomenal musicians and one of the greatest records of all time
September 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Proud that AM Heath are part of the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction. Created in honour of one of the greatest writers, this award supports unpublished and unagented writers in the UK. Entries at hilarymantelprize.com
#HilaryMantelPrize #LiteraryPrize #EmergingWriters
#HilaryMantelPrize #LiteraryPrize #EmergingWriters
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Proud that AM Heath are part of the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction. Created in honour of one of the greatest writers, this award supports unpublished and unagented writers in the UK. Entries at hilarymantelprize.com
#HilaryMantelPrize #LiteraryPrize #EmergingWriters
#HilaryMantelPrize #LiteraryPrize #EmergingWriters
Five nights, four venues, 65 different songs (dating from 1986 to 2025) and one orchestra. Thank you to everyone who came to the Suede Southbank Takeover, to the tireless South Bank staff, and to Charles Hazelwood and his fabulous Paraorchestra
(pix Bex Walton, Izumi Kumazawa & Jo Whitfield)
(pix Bex Walton, Izumi Kumazawa & Jo Whitfield)
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Five nights, four venues, 65 different songs (dating from 1986 to 2025) and one orchestra. Thank you to everyone who came to the Suede Southbank Takeover, to the tireless South Bank staff, and to Charles Hazelwood and his fabulous Paraorchestra
(pix Bex Walton, Izumi Kumazawa & Jo Whitfield)
(pix Bex Walton, Izumi Kumazawa & Jo Whitfield)
So happy to be able to announce that the fabulous team at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social will be bringing you my third novel, We Are Starting Our Descent, in 2027. Lots more news to come
September 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
So happy to be able to announce that the fabulous team at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social will be bringing you my third novel, We Are Starting Our Descent, in 2027. Lots more news to come
Not sure if I posted these at the time. Fantastic pencil sketches of the soundcheck, gig and set-up of our Ally Pally gig by acclaimed artist (and friend) @lachlangoudieart . He’s kindly gifting me one of them; which should I choose?
September 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Not sure if I posted these at the time. Fantastic pencil sketches of the soundcheck, gig and set-up of our Ally Pally gig by acclaimed artist (and friend) @lachlangoudieart . He’s kindly gifting me one of them; which should I choose?
Crew band setting up for tonight’s @bbcradio2.bsky.social session
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Crew band setting up for tonight’s @bbcradio2.bsky.social session
Devastated to hear that Eamon Downes has died. He was a friend long before we worked together and he was always the most positive, life-loving, funny, kind and gentle person. Sending so much love to his (many, many) friends and the family he adored
July 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Devastated to hear that Eamon Downes has died. He was a friend long before we worked together and he was always the most positive, life-loving, funny, kind and gentle person. Sending so much love to his (many, many) friends and the family he adored
What’s this? The front cover of an actual, physical magazine, full of great writing and smart photos? What a time to be alive….
July 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What’s this? The front cover of an actual, physical magazine, full of great writing and smart photos? What a time to be alive….
For anyone who doesn’t believe that the Japanese have perfected modern life, I give you… the hash brown baguette
June 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
For anyone who doesn’t believe that the Japanese have perfected modern life, I give you… the hash brown baguette
Cover of a YT Music Suede bootleg. I can’t even tell which one is supposed to be me.
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Cover of a YT Music Suede bootleg. I can’t even tell which one is supposed to be me.
Really shouldn’t have taken all seven goes to get today’s Wordle
May 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Really shouldn’t have taken all seven goes to get today’s Wordle
New album, Antidepressants out in September. New single and video, Disintegrate, out now. And we take over the Southbank for a series of gigs in the Autumn.
www.suede.co.uk
www.suede.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
New album, Antidepressants out in September. New single and video, Disintegrate, out now. And we take over the Southbank for a series of gigs in the Autumn.
www.suede.co.uk
www.suede.co.uk
From 4pm today. New music. New shows
May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From 4pm today. New music. New shows
We’ve discussed it, as a band, and determined that Sound Affects is the best Jam album
March 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
We’ve discussed it, as a band, and determined that Sound Affects is the best Jam album
Sorry, one more from last night from the festival organisers (who say 175,000 people turned up)
March 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Sorry, one more from last night from the festival organisers (who say 175,000 people turned up)
100,000 Chileans can’t be wrong. Thank you to the Concepcion Rec festival for a spectacular show yesterday
March 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
100,000 Chileans can’t be wrong. Thank you to the Concepcion Rec festival for a spectacular show yesterday
Five-person Jacuzzi actually in the dressing room last night. The ball’s in your court, UK venues
Santiago #riderwatch
Santiago #riderwatch
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Five-person Jacuzzi actually in the dressing room last night. The ball’s in your court, UK venues
Santiago #riderwatch
Santiago #riderwatch
For a total jazz tyro like myself this was great. James Kaplan’s three way biography of the men behind Kind of Blue. Impossible to read without breaking off to listen to the records that led to it
March 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
For a total jazz tyro like myself this was great. James Kaplan’s three way biography of the men behind Kind of Blue. Impossible to read without breaking off to listen to the records that led to it
I know it’s possibly the least controversial take of all time but Marquee Moon is really a perfect record, isn’t it? Just a glorious little world of its own.
January 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I know it’s possibly the least controversial take of all time but Marquee Moon is really a perfect record, isn’t it? Just a glorious little world of its own.
So inventive and inspiring: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown is a really clever examination of Asian-American representation written as a screenplay. Much more fun than it sounds (and the associated TV show is very different but equally good)
January 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So inventive and inspiring: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown is a really clever examination of Asian-American representation written as a screenplay. Much more fun than it sounds (and the associated TV show is very different but equally good)
Recommended by my brother and just spectacularly good. So full of little human details bringing all the protagonists to life
January 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Recommended by my brother and just spectacularly good. So full of little human details bringing all the protagonists to life
Truly odd book by a Japanese master. Nominally about a vast underground bunker in a converted quarry, it soon veers off into a comedy of manners full of scatalogical beetles, Benny-Hill-style arse-slapping and oversized toilets
January 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Truly odd book by a Japanese master. Nominally about a vast underground bunker in a converted quarry, it soon veers off into a comedy of manners full of scatalogical beetles, Benny-Hill-style arse-slapping and oversized toilets