Gaz Coombes | Mike Beeston

Born Gareth Michael in Oxford on 8 March 1976
He is a Musician, producer, and singer-songwriter
His father was a food scientist, who enjoyed playing jazz piano,and his mother was an English teacher
At 9 he played classical piano then gradually moved on to an interest in playing guitar
At school he found himself being picked on for being ‘girly’
He first entered the music world at age 14 as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers. The band undertook a nationwide tour before he was even fifteen
He was under 18 when they signed a recording contract and so had to have his mum sign the contract for him.
He later got a job at the local Harvester and would take Jennifers demos and play them over the restaurant’s PA system before it opened. This led to him meeting Mick Quinn, a co-worker who played bass guitar. With Danny Goffey they began to practice at Quinn’s house, and they formed Supergrass.
The band released their first single “Caught by the Fuzz” on small independent record label, Backbeat records, on a limited run of 500.
The band released six studio albums in their 17 years together, each of them entering the UK top 20
He received offers from Vogue and Calvin Klein to model for them in their ad campaigns and magazine publications
He also turned down an offer from Steven Spielberg to make a Monkees-style TV show of the band
In 2010, he and the rest of Supergrass announced that the band was to split after seventeen years. Musical differences were cited as the reason.
Their seventh album Release the Drones remains unfinished and unreleased.
In 2014 he recorded a cover version of The Kinks’ song “This Time Tomorrow” for a television advertisement for the UK department store, John Lewis
Supergrass released six studio albums, three extended plays, two compilation albums, 26 singles and 24 music videos.
His hits include: “Alright”, “Richard III”, “Sun Hits the Sky”, “Pumping on Your Stereo” and “The Girl Who Fell to Earth”

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