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First album was very good. Second album was brilliant. Third album starts very well with the brilliant Moving, but the rest of the album quite a letdown. Quality went back up with some of Gaz's solo albums, especially Matador & World's Strongest Man.
Went to see them at the Ali Pally literally days before lockdown in 2020. Didnt realise they had gone from a three to a four piece band.
I should Coco came out when I was in Sixth Form, have some great memories attached to that album. Wern't they like teenagers still when that hit? Crazily good album, still their best in my opinion.
watched a lot of Glasto last year on TV and Supergrass were fantastic ... 100% live, making it look easy. And it was funny hearing Danny Goffey drop the F Bomb on live tv (and then getting told off... :) )in the post gig interview .
shame they put them on pretty much at the start of everything... :(
The first ‘proper’ band I saw, at Leicester De Montfort, May 97. Got right down the front, was only 16. Not sure kids nowadays have that privilege or freedom that we had. And you just watched and enjoyed it in the moment. No fricken phones recording it all.
I have it in my head that Steven Spielberg saw the video for “Have a fag - put it out” What’s that song called? We’re alright ? Anyway Speilberg saw it early doors, got in touch with them and said come to the States and I will give your own TV show and make you the next Monkees. And they said, “Nah your’re alright mate” Classy if true.
Wasn’t massively into Brit Pop but I remember hearing ‘Caught by the Fuzz’ and thinking that band’s got something.
I have it in my head that Steven Spielberg saw the video for “Have a fag - put it out” What’s that song called? We’re alright ? Anyway Speilberg saw it early doors, got in touch with them and said come to the States and I will give your own TV show and make you the next Monkees. And they said, “Nah your’re alright mate” Classy if true.
Wasn’t massively into Brit Pop but I remember hearing ‘Caught by the Fuzz’ and thinking that band’s got something.
Daniel. That story is true. Until some such time where it’s a load of bollocks.
Supergrass, Dodgy and The Lightning Seeds are all I take out of the britopop shenanigans. Bar a few singles like Great Things.
Thirty flipping years ago though. And f uck all has happened since. Ed f ucking Sheeran? Sweet arse bags.
Daniel. That story is true. Until some such time where it’s a load of bollocks.
Supergrass, Dodgy and The Lightning Seeds are all I take out of the britopop shenanigans. Bar a few singles like Great Things.
Thirty flipping years ago though. And f uck all has happened since. Ed f ucking Sheeran? Sweet arse bags.
The Lightning Seeds? Fkn Ada! Couldn’t stand them. Would literally make me dive across a room like Gordon Banks in the 1970 World Cup to either turn the dial on the radio over or switch the cnts off. Then MOTD (back when I watched it) decides to make one of their god awful twee slop by numbers songs the background music every fking 10 minutes. Pap of the highest papness. Pap and bilge for the masses.
The Lightning Seeds? Fkn Ada! Couldn’t stand them. Would literally make me dive across a room like Gordon Banks in the 1970 World Cup to either turn the dial on the radio over or switch the cnts off. Then MOTD (back when I watched it) decides to make one of their god awful twee slop by numbers songs the background music every fking 10 minutes. Pap of the highest papness. Pap and bilge for the masses.
That one’s not bad I’ll give you that. Mainly thanks to Terry Hall. Still, Broudie does his best to smother the song in a varnish of blandness so Pedestrian the song is in danger of barely making it across the road before the lights change.
That one’s not bad I’ll give you that. Mainly thanks to Terry Hall. Still, Broudie does his best to smother the song in a varnish of blandness so Pedestrian the song is in danger of barely making it across the road before the lights change.
Yeah, it was a co-write. And yes, Ian Broudies vocals get in my tits too. Way too weedy sometimes. And the cover of You Showed Me is a terror, but when they were good:
Yeah, it was a co-write. And yes, Ian Broudies vocals get in my tits too. Way too weedy sometimes. And the cover of You Showed Me is a terror, but when they were good:
Give me that over Radiofookincobblers
I found Radiobonce generally a bit dirgey but every now and then they soared. And they soared on their own terms. This one’s a bit later but for me has the spirit of Mark Hollis init
Loved Supergrass, very much the sound tracks of my youth along with Shed Seven, Blur and the whole Brit Pop thing. Being 19/20 in 1996 I was lucky enough to be at the right age at the right time. Ibiza in 94 and 96.
Like QPR being good, I didn't appreciate my youth until it had gone. Damn you only ever moving forward arrow of time.
Never got any of the britpop nonsense, anaemic, jangly, suburban bollocks. Whereas Amy Winehouse was a real talent from that era. Always been more britfunk myself, or the British jazz scene now with Ezra Collective etc.
Went to see them at the Ali Pally literally days before lockdown in 2020. Didnt realise they had gone from a three to a four piece band.
I should Coco came out when I was in Sixth Form, have some great memories attached to that album. Wern't they like teenagers still when that hit? Crazily good album, still their best in my opinion.
I was at that one too Toast - was strange to think back on it a few months later during lockdown.
Also saw Gaz Coombes in Tunbridge Wells the summer before. Nice small venue and my mate decided we needed to be right at the front. Low stage so we're basically standing right in front of him with our beers beside his monitor. At one point Gaz forgot the words near the start of Moving - looks down at me clearly wanting a bit of help but neither of us had sung it in years so I was no use - told him just do Late in the Day instead.
Funnily enough they're playing this summer in a park in Walton on Thames for some reason. The Coral, Sleeper and Happy Mondays also on the bill. Anyway I like Supergrass and its just down the road from me so I'm going. Gotta be better than watching the he hoops get bummed in the gob away at Southampton.
Funnily enough they're playing this summer in a park in Walton on Thames for some reason. The Coral, Sleeper and Happy Mondays also on the bill. Anyway I like Supergrass and its just down the road from me so I'm going. Gotta be better than watching the he hoops get bummed in the gob away at Southampton.
Funnily enough they're playing this summer in a park in Walton on Thames for some reason. The Coral, Sleeper and Happy Mondays also on the bill. Anyway I like Supergrass and its just down the road from me so I'm going. Gotta be better than watching the he hoops get bummed in the gob away at Southampton.
Just up the road from me in West Molesey. I might go.
Went to see them at the Ali Pally literally days before lockdown in 2020. Didnt realise they had gone from a three to a four piece band.
I should Coco came out when I was in Sixth Form, have some great memories attached to that album. Wern't they like teenagers still when that hit? Crazily good album, still their best in my opinion.
I should imagine that fourth band member is Rob Coombes - Gaz' brother - on keyboards. He was a session and touring musician and songwriter and arranger with the band from the outset, becoming a permanent member in 2002.
The way the band can switch from one mood to another mid-song, like in "Moving" and "Late in the day," is pure genius .
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Never got any of the britpop nonsense, anaemic, jangly, suburban bollocks. Whereas Amy Winehouse was a real talent from that era. Always been more britfunk myself, or the British jazz scene now with Ezra Collective etc.
Shout out for Yussef Dayes too while we’re at it (just to be clear, I know eff all about Supergrass)!
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