The Tears

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Refugees 02:52 Tools
Lovers 04:04 Tools
Autograph 03:34 Tools
Imperfection 04:45 Tools
Co-star 04:04 Tools
Two Creatures 03:57 Tools
The Ghost Of You 05:01 Tools
Brave New Century 03:44 Tools
Beautiful Pain 03:48 Tools
Fallen Idol 00:00 Tools
Apollo 13 05:14 Tools
The Asylum 00:00 Tools
A Love As Strong As Death 00:00 Tools
Feels Like Monday 00:00 Tools
Branded 00:00 Tools
The Primitive 00:00 Tools
Low-Life 00:00 Tools
Song For The Migrant Worker 00:00 Tools
Southern Rain 00:00 Tools
Because You're Worthless 00:00 Tools
Break Away 00:00 Tools
Weatherman 00:00 Tools
Fallen Idol (Bernard Butler Mix) 00:00 Tools
2 Creatures 00:00 Tools
Until The Day I Die 00:00 Tools
Berlin 00:00 Tools
People Through My Glasses 00:00 Tools
Refugees (2005) 00:00 Tools
rat race 00:00 Tools
Brave new Country 00:00 Tools
europe after the rain 00:00 Tools
Lovers - 7" Version 00:00 Tools
Don't Care About Nothin' 00:00 Tools
The Tears 00:00 Tools
Because You're Worthless - 7" Version 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Refugees 00:00 Tools
Imperfections 00:00 Tools
The Living Dead 00:00 Tools
I Know It's Hard 00:00 Tools
She Ain't Right 00:00 Tools
read all about it 00:00 Tools
Miss Queen 00:00 Tools
Refugees Video 00:00 Tools
The Living Dead - Glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Every Tuesday 00:00 Tools
Good Luck My Love 00:00 Tools
Autograph (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Blew My Baby Away 00:00 Tools
Fast Cars 00:00 Tools
Don't Care About Nothing 00:00 Tools
Worst Lie 00:00 Tools
Refugees (live) 00:00 Tools
Lovers (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
The Lovers 00:00 Tools
Death In Texas 00:00 Tools
Never Alone 00:00 Tools
Can't Sleep 00:00 Tools
because you´re worthless 00:00 Tools
Song For The Migrent Worker 00:00 Tools
refugees (single version) 00:00 Tools
Another Girl 00:00 Tools
Stato Immobile 00:00 Tools
Here Come The Tears 00:00 Tools
Refugees (Live At Heaven) 00:00 Tools
02 autograph 00:00 Tools
Don't Care About Nothin 00:00 Tools
Apollo13 00:00 Tools
The Ghost Of You (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
You're All Talk 00:00 Tools
Berlin (live) 00:00 Tools
13 - A Love As Strong As Death 00:00 Tools
12 apollo 13 00:00 Tools
The Living Dead (Glastonbury 2005) 00:00 Tools
12 - Apollo 13 00:00 Tools
04 Imperfection 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Lovers 00:00 Tools
Lovers (Extended Drums Edit) 00:00 Tools
10 Beautiful Pain 00:00 Tools
08 fallen idol 00:00 Tools
11 The Asylum 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
europe after the rain - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
06 Two Creatures 00:00 Tools
10 - Beautiful Pain 00:00 Tools
11 - The Asylum 00:00 Tools
Song For The Migrant Worker p 00:00 Tools
Because You're Worthless prev 00:00 Tools
The ghost of you (acoustic-Live Tent Oxegen 2005) 00:00 Tools
05 The Ghost Of You 00:00 Tools
13 A Love As Strong As Death 00:00 Tools
Europe After The Rain (live) 00:00 Tools
09 brave new century 00:00 Tools
03 Co-Star 00:00 Tools
Ça Plane Pour Moi 00:00 Tools
beautiful pain - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Refuges 00:00 Tools
TheTears-AutographBBC2 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Autograph 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Refugees (2005) 00:00 Tools
brave new century - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
southern rain - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
autograph - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Lowlife preview 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Imperfection 00:00 Tools
J.Ross interview 00:00 Tools
Southern Rain [b-side Refugees CD1] 00:00 Tools
Co 00:00 Tools
Autograph (live) 00:00 Tools
Lovers (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Southern Rain (Janice Long Session) 00:00 Tools
Two Creatures - Glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Imperfection - Glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
The Asylum - Glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Apollo 13 - Glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
The Ghost Of You - Glastonbury 2005 (Peel Stage) 00:00 Tools
Apollo 13 (live) 00:00 Tools
The Primitive preview 00:00 Tools
The primitives 00:00 Tools
Feels Like Monday [b-side Refugees CD2] 00:00 Tools
Autograph (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
The Gost Of You 00:00 Tools
Beatiful Pain 00:00 Tools
refugees - glastonbury 2005 00:00 Tools
Refugees (Janice Long session) 00:00 Tools
Refugee 00:00 Tools
Autograph (Janice Long session) 00:00 Tools
What You're Doing to Me 00:00 Tools
Live at Rock Werchter (Day 3) 02-07-2005 00:00 Tools
Loves 00:00 Tools
The Tears - Brave New Century 00:00 Tools
Mark Radcliffe talks to Brett and Bernard 00:00 Tools
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Many have wondered how two performers as volatile as Bernard Butler and Brett Anderson who had at one time nurtured such hatred for one another, were reunited after all this time. Anderson describes getting together with former bandmate Butler as such, "We went out for a drunken night. I'd called him and we went out for a curry and got drunk. Then the next day he came over with these tracks and that was that". Though Butler and Anderson had not spoken since the days of Suede, Anderson claimed getting back in gear with Butler was not difficult. The band decided on being named after a line from a Philip Larkin poem, "Femmes Damnées", which ends with the line: "The only sound heard is the sound of tears". Anderson also had this to say about the renewed partnership with Bernard Butler: “For years and years after Bernard left Suede it was me running the show, but now the stakes are raised. I feel like we are duelling with each other, in some kind of friendly competition. When we were at our best it was always like that, each trying to better each other.” The band played their first ever live show on December 14, 2004 at the Oxford Zodiac. Things went as expected for the "new" band, and most new songs were received well by those attending the first set of shows. When asked during a concert by a fan to play the famous Suede song, The Drowners, Anderson replied saying, "Did somebody say they want us to play The Drowners? They came to the wrong gig". Apart from relatively minor reviews of the first clutch of live shows, The Tears first press, a review of Refugees, interview with Anderson and a poster(!)was in The Sun on 15 April. The next major article was by Alex Petridis in The Guardian, which ended on an extremely optimistic note: "the pair seem artistically reinvigorated by each other's company. Anderson talks excitedly of Tears songs like the ballad Asylum, inspired by his father's struggle with depression, as having moved away from "Suede cliches or Brett Anderson cliches ... it's not, you know, opiated fop territory". There's even a hint of the old provocative flash and arrogance when talk turns to the future: Here Comes the Tears feels like a debut. It will be massively bettered. On this at least there's no hint of disagreement. "This album's like rocking the boat a bit. There's been a few splashes," nods Butler. "Next time, I want to get rid of the sails and see what happens." From the start, Anderson and Butler were very insistent that the band would not be playing any songs by Suede. Things would change over time, however, as the band ended up playing a b-side of Suede's titled The Living Dead to an enthusiastic reception, during an encore for their show at the Sheffield Leadmill in April. On April 25, 2005, the band's first single, Refugees, was released. The single was very much a success and jumped into the top ten singles chart at number nine. The band's debut album, Here Come The Tears followed on June 6, 2005. It was released to stellar reviews that helped solidify the duo's comeback, yet it failed to crack the top 10. In late June, the band played a set at the John Peel stage at the Glastonbury Festival. The second single from the debut album, entitled Lovers, was released on June 27. Though a significantly lower charting than the previous single, it still managed a decent spot in the top 25. More than a month later, singer Anderson announced that he would release his long awaited solo album in between the touring and the release of the band's follow up album. After playing a few festivals and international gigs, the band announced a European tour with dates in October and November. However, to the disappointment of many fans, they later cancelled the tour in favour of beginning work on their second album. Shortly after, the band were dropped from their label most likely due to insufficient touring or low sales. In late April of 2006, Anderson posted a message on the band's message board announcing the band were on temporary hiatus because "no one ever wanted this thing to get caught up within the drudgery of the whole tour/record/tour cycle anyway". In addition, he announced that he had completed his debut solo album and that it would see light in early 2007, hinting that the second Tears record would most likely come after that, if at all. By the end of August 2006, their website and forum are officially closed, leaving dimmer hope for the future of the band. In September of 2006 Butler posted on his website: ".....actually tears are the same as ever....i guess coming from the suede trajectory it would look odd to make a record and not stick to the brand name plugging away endlessly at one thing....but if you take my shocking career line over 12 years its just par for the course....im on top of the world working constantly on terrific records from 1990's the mescalitas on offs, and soon we will be making the Duffy record .... yes i always loved more than i thought" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.