Fallowing an unsuccessful collaboration by owning previous All About Eve singer Julianne Regan, Butler formed the duo McAlmont and Butler with David McAlmont, a soul singer with the 3-octave range. It freed 2 singles, Yes & Your family Run, prior to stock split acrimoniously. An album, A Healthy of McAlmont & Butler, was discharged when a split. Butler briefly joined The Verve in 1997 after their guitarist, Nick McCabe, temporarily left the band. He went in to release 2 albums under his have title, Humans Move In & Friends & Lovers, prior to making higher by using McAlmont for another McAlmont & Butler album, Bring it Back, & 2 singles, Falling & Bring it Back.

Since so Butler has healed his rift sustaining previous Suede singer Brett Anderson, forming a recently band, the Tears. A Tears freed their extremely awaited debut LP, Here Come The Tears, produced by Butler, inside June 2005. Singles include Refugees, which reached #9 in the UK charts, & Lovers.

Inside between his have projects he has played in & produced records by Sparks, Edwyn Collins, Aimee Mann, Neneh Cherry, Tim Booth (formerly of James), the Manic Street Preachers, Eddi Reader, Hopper, Roy Orbison, Bert Jansch and The Libertines. He created the sountrack to the 1997 film The James Gang & played on the soundtrack of Velvet Goldmine, alongside Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. He has played swallow The Cranberries, Paul Weller and Teenage Fanclub.

Butler list previous Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr as his major inspiration. More likely influences include guitar player Peter Green, George Harrison and Steve Howe and producer Phil Spector. He is typically in comparison Neil Young, although Young's rough-edged, stripped down healthy can hardly exist as extra different to Butler's in an elaborate way layered, "Wall of Sound" arrangements: Creation Records boss Alan McGee, promoting Butler's first solo album, utilized Young for instance of the previous sideman with success moving to centre-stage.

Selected discography

1993 - Suede - Suede (Mercury Music Prize winner) singles: The Drowners, Metal Mickey, Animal Nitrate, So Young 1994 - Suede - Dog Man Star singles: We are the Pigs, The Wild Ones, New Generation 1995 - McAlmont and Butler - The Healthy of McAlmont & Butler singles: Yes, Smart shoppers Do 1997 - Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies (collection of Suede B-Sides) 1998 - Bernard Butler - People Move On singles: Stay, Non Alone, The Vary of Heart 1999 - Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers singles: Friends & Lovers, That you Must Last On 2002 - McAlmont and Butler - Bring it Back singles: Falling, Bring it Back 2005 - The Tears - Here Come The Tears singles: Refugees, Lovers