Despite looking and sounding nothing like them, Britpop/alternative rock heroes Suede have previously been mistaken for 70s hitmakers Slade, of Merry Xmas Everybody and Cum on Feel the Noize fame. Both great bands, of course, but musically very different. I took a friend to see Suede at the Cambridge Corn Exchange last year and she was expecting to see Slade, while the band’s bass player, Mat Osman, speaking to the Cambridge Independent via a Zoom video call from his home, recounts another time the quintet were mistaken for Noddy Holder and co. “I can remember once we were crossing the border …