Gaz Coombes has spoken about how “nervous” he was about reuniting Supergrass following the success of his solo albums.
Coombes has launched 4 solo albums, the latest of which, ‘Flip The Automotive Round’, was launched simply final month. His second solo file, ‘Matador’, was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2015.
In an interview with Traditional Pop, Coombes stated that he was “anxious” that reuniting Supergrass in 2019 can be seen as a “backward step”.
“Having bought right into a circulation and the final two albums having achieved so properly, it appeared a bit odd, like a backward step,” he stated. “However then I used to be assured that I may function each issues collectively and plainly I did, as a result of I used to be clearly penning this file primarily through the reunion so I really feel like I made greatest use of each issues.”
Supergrass initially break up up in 2010, citing artistic variations, however Coombes has now stated that he left the band as a result of it was now not making him comfortable. “I didn’t depart Supergrass to go solo. I left as a result of I wasn’t having fun with it, and it wasn’t making me comfortable. So I wanted to get myself comfortable. I realised that simply because I wasn’t within the band didn’t imply I used to be going to cease.”
Coombes launched his solo debut, ‘Right here Comes The Bombs’, in 2012. Talking in regards to the file, he stated: “It was transitional, there was positively a hangover from Supergrass.”
Supergrass launched a dwell album, ‘Stay On Different Planets’, in 2020, to rejoice their twenty fifth anniversary and lift increase cash for grassroots venues affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. They later carried out on the Taylor Hawkins tribute live performance at Wembley Stadium in September, after which Coombes confirmed on his social media that it could be the band’s final present of their reunion.
Coombes commented on the potential of one other reunion in a current interview with NME. “Reunions can’t go on without end and so they’ve bought to have some kind of lifespan. It was at all times gonna be that yr, we had been gonna do every thing in 2020,” he stated.
“However due to what occurred with the pandemic, clearly it bought unfold out into two and a half, nearly three years which is fairly loopy. But it surely’s cool that it resulted in a manner the place we may positively take a look at the potential of different reveals down the road if it feels proper and if everybody’s in the fitting place.”