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Neil Codling comes from a rather wealthy family. He was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, the beautiful town of Shakespeare. He was going to Bridgetown J and I on his elementary years, continued on to King Edward V School on his high school years. On October 1992 he moved to Hull, majoring English and Drama in university. He graduated three years later with 2:1 (which means he's very good). He didn't see his cousin Simon Gilbert a lot in his childhood, only on Christmas.
His entrance to Suede often being taken cynically by public due to his handsome look. He got in the band after he hung around their studio so much... at that time he was living nearby the studio in London. He came to borrow a suit from Simon and just sort of stayed, recalled Brett about him. He never got the suit, though. Neil is an occasional model and he often got thrown by his bandmates to smile sweetly and look handsome for magazines while they're off doing something else.
Neil is the best cricket player in the band, and also the best smoker. He often found in hotel lobbies early in the morning, smoking and snapping couldn't sleep. He can juggle oranges, not more than 3 at a time, and he would like to fence. Neil often does brown-rice diet and fasts. He recommended the brown-rice diet to Brett during the process of recording Coming Up. In fact he looked pale one evening during one of his fasts, and he came up the next morning with Starcrazy. He contributes his vocals on a marvellous b-side Digging A Hole, which he wrote by himself.
Neil has a dreadful on-line bookstore habit. He would order obscure fiction, medical, philosophical books -- anything he could get his hands on, and later he'd get their manager pay for them because he doesn't have a credit card!
Full name: Neil John Codling |
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