AWARDS SHORTLIST: MONSTAS: Best Song of 2025

It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2025? Over the next month we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2025.

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GIG REVIEW: Suede at Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre

By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: *****

WHEN? Tuesday 26 August, tour runs through 21 February 2026

Setlist: Disintegrate; Dancing With The Europeans; Antidepressants; Sweet Kid; The Sound And The Summer; Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star; Broken Music For Broken People; Criminal Ways; Trance State; June Rain; Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment

Snowblind; She Still Leads Me On; Personality Disorder; Shadow Self; No Tomorrow; Tides; Turn Off Your Brain And Yell; The Only Way That I Can Love You; It Starts And Ends With You; Outsiders

This is not supposed to happen.

  • Read on for reasons including how this was not the gig we expected or wanted
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Dancing With The Europeans by Suede (August 2025)

WORTH A LOOK?: *****

Frontman Brett Anderson explains the idea for the song came from an exhilarating show in Spain where there was a great connection with the audience despite the personal low the singer was experiencing away from the gig.

  • Read on for reasons including how to see Suede live in London this summer
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