People always say: ‘How do you find the time to do both?’ But I don’t start work until nine at night – the rest of the day I’m sitting in the hotel or in places like this. “Touring is absolutely brilliant for writing.
The Ghost Theatre, he explains, was partly written on the road. Osman is imposingly tall and the room is comically small, but this is the world that he knows his home for the next 90 minutes. We meet in the wings of Bristol’s O2 Academy, at the tail end of Suede’s latest UK tour. And if they play the role well enough, who’s to say it’s not true? They might perform the role of a rock star, an office worker, a van driver, a writer. Everybody performs, whether they’re on stage or not.
It’s a book about performance, he says, because the subject fascinates him. Now he has written it, too, in the form of a novel about star-crossed child actors in Elizabethan London. Osman has experienced this at first hand as the bassist in Suede, the group he co-founded in the late 80s with his schoolfriend Brett Anderson.
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