As Suede conclude their triumphant Southbank Takeover, here’s Brett Anderson, Bernard Butler, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert and producer Ed Buller remembering the creation of their debut single, “The Drowners”. Brett Anderson (vocals): Me and Bernard were starting to click as songwriters when we wrote “The Drowners”. We would cancel rehearsals until we had a brilliant song – then we’d go to rehearsal with one song and play it for four hours. We really didn’t mean anything. Anderson: It’s a very sensual sort of song, isn’t it, “The Drowners”?