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Supergrass

April 2023

  • Gaz Coombes.

    Honest playlist
    ‘Freak Scene made me want to be in a band’: Gaz Coombes’s honest playlist

    The singer and Supergrass frontman has a soft spot for 1-D and a certain naff Bowie-Jagger duet. But what do he – and Skid Row – like to sing at karaoke?

January 2023

  • GAZ COOMBES

    Gaz Coombes: Turn the Car Around review – genial English rocker’s best album in 20 years

    The former Supergrass frontman’s gorgeous, heartfelt new songs are intoxicating

December 2022

  • Grace Dent and her guest Gaz Coombes

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S4 E8: Gaz Coombes, musician

    This week knocking on Grace’s door is actual rockstar, and lead singer of Supergrass, Gaz Coombes. Gaz has sold millions of records around the world, both from his days in Britpop superstars Supergrass, and his critically acclaimed solo work. He joins Grace to chat about his days overseeing The Harvester’s coveted salad bar, late-night cheese boards, and as he prepares to release his fourth solo album, the meals that stand out from his days touring the world. And, as ever, the comfort foods that have seen him through it all.

November 2022

  • Blur on the hotel roof in Stockholm Sweden for the launch of Metro magazine,The Saturday Times, August 1997

    From Blur to big beat! The 90s and beyond – in pictures

    Featuring Frankie Knuckles, Geri Halliwell and Goldie, a new book focuses on the icons and pioneers of the 90s and 00s music scene

September 2022

  • The Foo Fighters looking grave on stage at Wembley Stadium

    Taylor Hawkins tribute concert review – stars unite to honour the late Foo Fighters drummer

    An eclectic lineup of musicians makes this a curious bombardment of music – but Dave Grohl, his voice cracking with emotion, is the real star of the show

July 2021

  • ‘Vitality and charm’ ... Griff performs at Latitude 2021.

    Latitude festival review: a hyper-real return to glitter, beer and British musical brilliance

    The first full-capacity festival since the pandemic began hosted a series of artists – Sons of Kemet and Self Esteem among them – that show how vibrant the UK’s scene still is
  • Clockwise from left ... Gaz Coombes, a Mega Drive controller, Jason Pierce of Spacemen 3 and Monty Python.

    Teenage kicks
    Gaz Coombes: ‘It felt good that life was speeding up’

    As Supergrass return to festival stages, their frontman remembers his younger days, from the majesty of Spacemen 3 to love letters via mixtapes
  • The band Pleasant Valley Children in front of the Duchess of York

    ‘Our sound man had Kurt Cobain against the wall’: iconic Leeds gig pub ‘reopens’

    Nirvana, Blur and Coldplay all played early shows at the Duchess of York. Twenty-one years after it closed, a new pop-up version calls attention to the plight of today’s small venues

April 2020

  • Jonathon Cartwright in his bedroom

    Postcards from the pandemic
    'I felt deeply apologetic': how one man's bucket-list trip put a community at risk of Covid-19

    Jonathon Cartwright caught coronavirus on a whirlwind visit from Australia to London to see a band. He’s recovered – but still feels guilty

February 2020

  • Supergrass in 2020, left to right: Danny Goffey, Gaz Coombes, Mickey Quinn, Rob Coombes

    Supergrass: ‘We’ve always been about manic energy’

  • Teeth nice and clean ... Gaz Coombes of Supergrass.

    Supergrass review – joyous return for one of the UK's greatest singles bands

September 2018

  • Franz Ferdinand at Festival No 6.

    Festival No 6 review – au revoir to an eccentric, magical gem

    The last Festival No 6 ‘for now’ has awkward cultural copyists, but is saved by Franz Ferdinand, The The and Anna Calvi

March 2016

  • Frankie Lymon, centre, and the Teenagers in 1955.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best teen pop singers

    After 19-year-old Lorde’s Bowie tribute at the Brits, we look at other notable young performers

November 2015

  • Supergrass in 1995

    How we made
    Supergrass: how we made I Should Coco

    Gaz Coombes: ‘Spielberg wanted us to do a TV series, but we wanted to make it through our music, not our sideburns’

May 2015

  • Danny Goffey

    Soundtrack of my life
    Danny Goffey: soundtrack of my life

    The Supergrass co-founder – now leading Vangoffey – on Dexys Midnight Runners, Inspiral Carpets and Pink Floyd

February 2015

  • Gaz Coombes

    30 minutes with …
    Gaz Coombes: ‘Britpop was overblown – there were only a few decent bands’

    The former Supergrass man talks sideburns, stealing his daughter’s musical ideas and why he’s a secret cage fighter

January 2015

  • Gaz Coombes

    Gaz Coombes: Matador review – thrillingly on the edge of hysteria

    The former Supergrass singer puts his powerful pop voice to good use in this diverse, confessional album, writes Jon Dennis

October 2014

  • Supergrass

    Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood hires Supergrass to cover Inherent Vice track

    Guitarist enlists two-thirds of fellow Oxford group to rewire Spooks, Radiohead’s ‘pixies/surf pastiche’ from 2006, which will feature in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film

June 2014

  • Gruff Rhys

    Glastonbury dos and don'ts: 'Do anything except drive a van on acid'

    From not wearing transparent plastic trousers to avoiding getting stuck in the toilets, musicians offer advice gained from years of festival experience

April 2014

  • Jericho Tavern Oxford

    Gig venue guide
    The gig venue guide: The Jericho Tavern, Oxford

    Welcome to the venue that hosted Radiohead's first-ever show, and has become a staple of the touring circuit (with good beers, too)
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