S1E50: Gaz Coombes
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Guy and Gary are joined by musician, songwriter and founder of Supergrass, Gaz Coombes.
Gaz has been making music since he was a lad and started Supergrass in 1993. They exploded in the mid 90’s with Britpop anthems like ‘Alright’, ‘Caught By The Fuzz’ and ‘Sun Hits the Sky’.
Gaz has also enjoyed a successful solo career with albums like ‘Matador’.
In this episode Gaz talks to Guy and Gary about his early introduction to music, the huge hits of the 1990’s and how Steven Spielberg almost made a TV show about the band!
‘In It For The Money’ is out now remastered and expanded, plus is available on vinyl for the very first time! Supergrass play the Isle of Wight Festival in September.
This episode of Rockonteurs was recorded before the passing of Charlie Watts.
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| 0:29.8 | This week's episode of Rock Onters was recorded before the passing of Charlie Watts. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey Guy, so we both went to see shows this week? |
| 0:40.0 | We did. Well, yes, I went to the Foodie Festival because outline my son's |
| 0:45.2 | duo were playing, but you went to a proper show. I'm not saying that wasn't a proper show, but |
| 0:51.0 | yeah, I went to see Sheik, Nyle Rogers, play at Hampton Court in that beautiful courtyard there. |
| 0:57.0 | It was weird to be back in the crowd again. I mean, they were amazing and everyone was up dancing. |
| 1:01.0 | It was absolutely fantastic show. People sort of felt liberated, but it did feel a little like should we be doing this but there were all COVID checks and stuff that had to be done before. |
| 1:12.3 | I went to a sort of birthday thing last week and sort of everyone |
| 1:16.2 | packed everyone there has now come down with COVID. Luckily I've tested negative. |
| 1:19.5 | Really? Yeah, there's going to be a lot of that. But it was it was just nice to hear some music and they're such a incredible band and hit after hit. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, I would have loved to come. Yeah, my invite only accents to my wife, not my not my male wife. |
| 1:37.6 | So Gaz Kumes, supergrass. Supergrass, I'm really looking forward to this. |
| 1:42.0 | Amazing band that sort of started from, I mean they were like children and just sort of came out fully formed and just hit it running, didn't they? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, there's some rumor that Spielberg wanted to make a sort of monkeys series with them. I'm not sure how true that is. |
| 1:56.5 | They fit that profile didn't they? I mean that all the fun cheekiness |
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