Vocalist Brett Anderson and bass player Mat Osman arrived in London as students in 1989 from the Sussex satellite town of Haywards Heath. They formed a trio with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, who was also studying at University College, London.
After deciding that neither Anderson nor Frischmann had the skill to be a lead guitarist, the group placed an advert in NME, which turned up Bernard Butler, and the foursome, wearing old suits from Oxfam, played their first show with a drum machine at the Sausage Machine Club in Hampstead, London.
When Suede placed an advert for a drummer, to the group's surprise, it was answered by the former Smiths stickman, Mike Joyce. Though he eventually turned down the job, Joyce stayed long enough to record and produce two songs with the group - "Be My God" and "Art," which were released as a single on RML Records. Joyce explained to Filter: "They had a guitarist that sounded more like Johnny Marr than Johnny Marr did, a singer that sang falsetto and a bassist that sounded a bit like Andy Rourke, so to put me in the band wouldn't do them any favors. They needed to be a success in their own right, so we all decided that they should keep looking."
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