The 2010 decision to disband
Supergrass, whose first album I Should Coco was the fastest-selling debut on the Parlophone label since The Beatles' Please Please Me in 1963, wasn't one any of the four-piece (Gaz's brother Rob joined officially in 2002) took lightly.
I'm still having a Gaz! Music
According to British media reports,
Supergrass had been working on a seventh album in 2009, and it is not clear whether any of the new material will be released.
British band Supergrass announces split
In 2008,
Supergrass also went through an acrimonious split from EMI.
Now Rats what I call music.. Scotland's top music writer
Supergrass remain a tight live unit and their anthemic hits are delivered as impressively as ever.
culture: review
Supergrass was the group that members of the new wave of Indie bands, including Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys, were listening to in their bedrooms as teenagers while dreaming of escape.
interview: They're still alright; Laura Davis meets the Supergrass drummer whose band is still going strong, more than a decade after Britpop
Supergrass still leads with Gaz Coombes's overdriven guitars, perhaps the only distraction--and admittedly a personal quibble about how some bands ought to shape their sound--to this superb collection of headlong pop concoctions, which, like our last look at them In It for the Money (No.
Supergrass, "Evening of the Day", Life on Other Planets
And whilst I have definitely wound down,
Supergrass seem to have lost none of their trademark verve or energy.
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They have already interviewed a potential witness to the Kieran Keane murder with a view to making him a
supergrass.
4 million price tag for Gardai informers
As Gaz suggests, people are often suspicious of artists trying to forge a new career for themselves after the kind of success that
Supergrass enjoyed in the 90s.
Gaz not letting the Grass grow under his feet; The Big interview
SUPERGRASS split in 2010 after 17 years together but singer Gaz Coombes hasn't said goodbye.
We burned candle too much.. I freaked out; MUSIC & THEATRE; Supergrass frontman on paranoid days of heady pop fame and how he's relaxed and happy in solo career
No doubt the biggest is Supfront man GAZ COOMBES whheads to the Georgian TheatrSunday night for an incrediblintimate gig as part of his UK After six successful albums
Supergrass (including the nuone debut I Should Coco), GaCoombes is back with his tremendous debut solo album Come The Bombs.
Gaz's intimate gig at the Geo orgian; Gig of the wee ek: Gaz Coombes
WITH their effervescent 1995 single Alright,
Supergrass perfectly captured in three short, spiky minutes the zeitgeist of Britpop.
Gaz Coombes at The Gate Arts and Community Centre, Cardiff, April 18; PREVIEW
Q When you, Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey disbanded
Supergrass in 2010 did you ever contemplate leaving music altogether and getting, for want of a better phrase, a "proper job"?
'I still think I'm as driven - the drive to make great music doesn't change' They were among the most beloved and enduring of the Britpop bands, yet after 17 years and more than five million record sales Supergrass finally split up. Now its former frontman turned solo star Gaz Coombes talks about how it feels to go it alone
THE year saw the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad immersed in an investigation with a robbery '
supergrass'.
Squad focused on supergrass
The figures come just weeks after detectives used a drug-dealing
supergrass in an effort to convict feared Tyneside hardman John Henry Sayers for masterminding a jury nobbling plot.
Massive payouts to informants revealed; Figures reveal pounds 500,000 paid out for information