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Supergrass: In It For The Money (Parlophone)
Review and Interview by Max Bell, MOJO, May 1997
IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT SUPERGRASS will ever scale the wails of hype built around those British bands whose media inflated self-importance exceeds their artistic merit. ...
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Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, August 2005
Combes brothers Gaz and Rob ruminate on their then-current album Road to Rouen, their fraternal relationships, the stresses within the band, and a whole lot more.
File format: mp3; file size: 50.9mb, interview length: 53' 04" sound quality: ****
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Britpop: Modern Life Is... Brilliant!
Overview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 7 January 1995
It was the year grunge died, the year of jungle... arses. It was the year that BRITISH POP found its feet again, and what's more, ...
Gene, Supergrass: Astoria, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 4 February 1995
THE NINE O'CLOCK SNOOZE ...
Supergrass: More Cock Than Doodle-Do
Interview by David Bennun, Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 February 1995
Oxford's SUPERGRASS put the POP! into apoplexy and inject hyper-charged glam into the Nineties Brit guitar thrill. Plus! Their second single — and first hit ...
Supergrass, The Bluetones: Caught By The Buzz
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 March 1995
Have you heard the new Maker motto? They're On The Cover On Tuesday, They're In The Chart On Sunday! First Portishead, then Sleeper, and now ...
Lycanthropissed-up!: Supergrass: I Should Coco (Parlophone)
Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 13 May 1995
A scary rock 'n' roll wolfchild who roams the streets, high on drugs and booze, in search of whatever cheap thrills the night has to ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 17 June 1995
From four-track bedroom demos to finished masters. SUPERGRASS' debut LP, I Should Coco, has been guided by the hand of producer SAM WILLIAMS. TOM DOYLE ...
Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, July 1995
Now trespassing in the charts, three princes of rascal rock… ...
Review by David Quantick, MOJO, July 1995
I Should Coco begins with one bloke muttering "know wot I mean?", another shouting "ONE TWO FREE FAW!" and an almighty shower of drumming. It ...
Hey Hey We're The Cheeky Monkeys: Supergrass
Profile and Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, October 1995
IN SPINAL TAP, that penetrating cinema verité dissection of the music industry, various scenes are offered as examples of the rampant absurdity of the rock'n'roll ...
Profile and Interview by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1995
IT'S A GLORIOUS SUMMER DAY in Oxford, city of dreaming spires in the heart of England. Three young tykes laugh and joke with each other ...
Supergrass: Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 24 February 1996
Almost exactly a year ago, when The Maker put them on the cover for the first time, SUPERGRASS were pop's likeliest lads, cheeky young upstarts ...
Bald truth, hairy moments — Supergrass: Apollo Theatre, Oxford
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 February 1996
Supergrass were named best new band at last week's Brit awards — but why? Noisy they may be, but subtle they're not. Caroline Sullivan went ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Select, March 1996
A STANDARD semi-detached on Oxford's fashionably downbeat Cowley Road appears an unlikely HQ for the UK's "hottest new band" (copyright the typically finger-not-on-the-pulse Today newspaper) ...
Supergrass: Interrogation Terrorists
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 2 March 1996
Last week, we gave you The Return of SUPERGRASS. This week, we open psycho-bible The Book of Questions and fling some brain-frazzling enquiries at The ...
Supergrass: It's alright to get serious, lads
Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 4 April 1997
David Sinclair discovers a new heavyweight image being brewed by that ebullient trio Supergrass. ...
Supergrass: In It For The Money
Review by David Cavanagh, Q, May 1997
THE TOP 5 SINGLE 'Going Out,' released in February 1996, made it resoundingly clear that Supergrass are much more than a three-man Britpop Playstation. While ...
Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, May 1997
TWO YEARS AFTER RIDING THEIR CHOPPERS TO NUMBER ONE, BRITPOP'S BOY WONDERS ARE BACK WITH A 'DIFFICULT' SECOND ALBUM ABOUT POWER, CORRUPTION AND POST-ADOLESCENT ANXIETY. ...
Supergrass: In It for the Money (Capitol) ***½
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 1 May 1997
SCALING A learning curve that would do the dons of their hometown university proud, Supergrass, from Oxford, England, have graduated from rambunctious adolescence to credible ...
Supergrass: Town & Country Club, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 May 1997
Just Alright on the night ...
Supergrass: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997
LIFE'S A SNITCH? ...
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, July 1997
GAZ COOMBES inadvertently summed the whole thing up himself earlier this year. Speaking of his newly-shedded hair, the Supergrass singer professed his absolute astonishment at ...
Oasis, Supergrass: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 3 January 1998
DURACELL-ING THEMSELVES SHORT? ...
Supergrass: Supergrass (Parlophone)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Daily Telegraph, September 1999
WE HEAR AN awful lot about how Oxford is still the gateway to eminence in thrusting new young Britain, but what about Wheatley Park Comprehensive? ...
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 18 September 1999
CALL IT PRE-MILLENNIAL psychosis, call it nervous exhaustion or call it self-pity, but you can count the pop people who haven't battled some kind of ...
Supergrass: Supergrass (Parlophone)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
Third album from the scampish Oxford trio ...
Supergrass: "It Felt Really Smart to be Doing it Again"
Report and Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 22 December 1999
A BLINDING THIRD ALBUM. A WORLD TOUR. COLLABORATIONS WITH THE MUPPETS AND ALI G. ALL IN A YEARS WORK FOR SUPERGRASS, AS GAZ COOMBES TELLS ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2001
IF IT WASN'T quite the summer garden party it should have been, Radiohead's big homecoming bash at Oxford's South Park was mostly (or at least ...
Supergrass: Life On Other Planets (Parlophone)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, September 2002
After a three year pause, here’s their fourth album, produced by Tony Hoffer (Air, Beck) and largely recorded at Chris Difford’s Sussex studios. Released on ...
Supergrass: Watching the 'Grass grow
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 24 April 2004
A decade in the music business hasn't hurt Supergrass. In fact, they're quite happy with their status as Britain's fifth favourite band, finds Ian Gittins. ...
Review by Everett True, Plan B, August 2005
NICE TITLE. (It references the fourth Ramones album, where Tommy added both acoustic guitar and solos, a pin-perfect mixture of the NYC band's minimal and ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, August 2005
WHILE RECORDING their fifth album in a converted barn in Rouen, Normandy, may have given Supergrass an opportunity too good to miss for the title's ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 17 August 2005
GAZ COOMBES HAS HAD AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX ever since 'Alright' was an enormous pop hit ten years ago; he's spent the intervening decade trying to ...
Review and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
ANOTHER HIGH quality crop. ...
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, April 2008
Britpop alumni enter their Berlin period. Sort of. ...
Supergrass: Brixton Academy, London SW9
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 11 June 2010
EVEN FANS WHO FOLLOWED Supergrass over the years would have to agree that the group, best known for their early Britpop-era hits such as 'Alright' ...
see also Gaz Coombes
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