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Supergrass, Busted and more. Find out more below.The annual event is due to take place from June 19 to 22 at Seaclose Park, and back in September it was confirmed that Justin Timberlake, Sting and Stereophonics would be joining as headliners.Other artists included in the initial announcement were Faithless, Example, The Script, Clean Bandit, James, Paul Heaton, Olly Murs, The Lottery Winners, The Lathums, Alison Moyet and Dean Lewis.Sting is set to kick off festivities on Friday night (20) as part of his ‘STING 3.0’ world tour, with Stereophonics topping the bill on Saturday (21), before Timberlake closes the festival on Sunday night (22).Now, even more artists have been added to the bill, including Jess Glynne, who is set to perform her numerous chart-toppers including ‘Rather Be’ and ‘My Love’ at the site.

Blur‘s Alex James has announced plans for a Britpop Classical concert at this year’s Big Feastival. Check out info and footage of what to expect below.The bash which combines live music with food attractions, is due to take place at James’ Cotswolds farm near Kingham, Oxfordshire, from August 22-24.Much like the Ministry Of Sound Classical concerts, which reimagine classic dance tracks with an orchestra and guest singers, the musician and cheesemaker will lead a Britpop classical set, with a live band alongside a full orchestra, on the closing night (August 24) at his three day festival.Announcing the concert at a special launch party at the LVLS in Hackney last night (April 3), James confirmed the show will feature the London Concert Orchestra and a band featuring two guitarists, two keyboardists, four singers and a number of special guests singing anthems by the likes of Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass and many more.He said: “Last summer we had Ministry Of Sound Classical headline and it literally fucking blew me away.

Supergrass have shared details of a new US tour, celebrating the 30th anniversary of ‘I Should Coco’. Find the details below, as well as a new Kelly Clarkson cover of their classic track ‘Alright’.The new announcement comes following Gaz Coombes and co.

Wilderness Festival has announced the line-up for its 2025 edition – you can check it out below.The event is set to take place at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire between July 31 and August 3. Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT next Wednesday (February 5) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.Headlining this year’s instalment will be Basement Jaxx, Supergrass and Wet Leg, who are all followed on the bill by AURORA, Air and Orbital.Other acts to feature on the line-up poster include Jalen Ngonda, Annie Mac, Hinds, Bear’s Den, Mary In The Junkyard, Bootleg Beatles, Die Twice and Mista Trick Collective.Festivalgoers will also be able to enjoy numerous talks and participate in a range of arts including “avant-garde workshops with artists and master craftspeople” as well as “mass participatory high jinx at the hands of an ensemble of weird and wonderful ringleaders”.Additionally, the event has “pioneered the concept of fine dining in a field and remains unparalleled for the scope and ambition of its food programming”.This features a long table banquet and three headline chefs making their Wilderness debut at the intimate lakeside restaurant The Chef’s Table: Andy Beynon, Anna Haugh (Masterchef: The Professionals) and Josh Overington.More names for Wilderness Festival 2025 are due to be announced “soon”.

Pete Doherty has opened up about the time he lied about supporting Supergrass on tour and his bandmate pretending to be in Radiohead.The Libertines frontman recently sat down with NME as the most recent guest of our In Conversation series and took a moment to discuss the band’s massive Gunnersbury Park show that is happening on Saturday August 9 (visit here for tickets and more information).The likes of Lambrini Girls, Hak Baker and Supergrass will be joining the ‘Time For Heroes’ group as special guests. After being asked if having Gaz Coombes and co as an opening act feels surreal and heavy, Doherty said: “Yes.

Supergrass have extended their upcoming ‘I Should Coco’ tour, adding two new UK shows to the schedule. Find ticket details below.It comes as the band announced their return with a series of 30th anniversary UK tour dates in September – just days after teasing a comeback with fans.The original tour announcement included live dates in Glasgow, Nottingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds throughout May, ahead of three shows at the Roundhouse in London.

Supergrass have announced details of a ‘I Should Coco’ anniversary show at Ludlow Castle, taking place in 2025. Find ticket details below.The gig will take place at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire on July 25, and see Gaz Coombes and co.

The Libertines have announced a huge London show for 2025 alongside special guests Supergrass and more. Find all the details below.Announced today (November 4), the homecoming show is set to take place at London’s Gunnersbury Park on Saturday, 9 August 2025.The concert will see The Libertines joined by Supergrass, as well as Soft Play, Hak Baker and Lambrini Girls.

Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes has spoken to NME about the band’s upcoming UK tour to celebrate 30 years of their seminal debut ‘I Should Coco’, along with other Britpop reunions, the dynamic ticket pricing controversy, and plans for the future.Last week saw the Oxford band announce details of a UK tour for May 2025, playing their 1995 album in full for the first time. Cockney rhyming slang for “I should think so”, ‘I Should Coco’ was released when Coombes was just 19-years-old, and his bandmates drummer Danny Goffey and bassist Mick Quinn not much older.It featured the huge singles ‘Alright’ and ‘Caught By The Fuzz’, peaked at Number One in the charts, sold over a million sales worldwide, and became the biggest-selling debut album from Parlophone Records since The Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’.“Well, I should bloody coco!” Coombes told NME, looking ahead to the shows. “It’s cool, man.

Supergrass have announced their return with details of a 30th anniversary UK tour celebrating seminal album ‘I Should Coco’.The band announced this morning (September 16) that they’ll be celebrating 20 years of their debut album with a run of shows in May 2025, taking place in Glasgow, Nottingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds, before a show at the Roundhouse in London.They’ll be playing ‘I Should Coco’ in full, before an encore with some of their biggest hits. Bassist Mick Quinn said: “15 May 2025 marks 30 years since ‘I Should Coco’.

Supergrass are teasing an upcoming announcement with fans, according to a new post.The British band, fronted by Gaz Coombes, shared a cryptic new post across their social media channels this morning (September 13), suggesting to fans that a new announcement is on the way.Posted at 9am BST, the post simply shared artwork of the band’s logo in red, alongside next Monday’s date, September 16. In the caption, the band simply wrote: “Sign up now”, alongside a link to their website’s homepage.Upon clicking the link, the page prompts fans to sign up for future updates, and asks them to input both their email address and the country they live in.

Danny Dyer joined Robbie Williams on stage at BST Hyde Park yesterday (July 6) for a version of Blur’s ‘Parklife’ – watch the footage below.The unlikely pairing came together midway through Williams’ set at the British Summer Time show on Saturday, the lone UK festival appearance for the ‘Rock DJ’ singer in 2024.“It’s the double act you didn’t know you needed in your life!” exclaimed Williams as the song began.Dyer took up the cockney spoken-words parts of the 1994 song, first made famous by Phil Daniels, with Robbie taking the place of Damon Albarn and the pair being backed by the Coldstream Guards.

Danny Dyer joined Robbie Williams on stage at BST Hyde Park yesterday (July 6) for a version of Blur’s ‘Parklife’ – watch the footage below.The unlikely pairing came together midway through Williams’ set at the British Summer Time show on Saturday, the lone UK festival appearance for the ‘Rock DJ’ singer in 2024.“It’s the double act you didn’t know you needed in your life!” exclaimed Williams as the song began.Dyer took up the cockney spoken-words parts of the 1994 song, first made famous by Phil Daniels, with Robbie taking the place of Damon Albarn and the pair being backed by the Coldstream Guards.

Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes has released a live version of one of his singles, featuring a choir involving people impacted by homelessness.Released on Tuesday (July 11), the singer joined forces with The Choir With No Name to record a live version of his single ‘Long Live The Strange’ — taken from his latest solo album ‘Turn The Car Around’.Formed in 2008, the choir is a UK Charity which provides a safe singing community for those affected by homelessness, and offers support for those who face marginalisation because of their living circumstances.The opportunity to collaborate arose when Coombes made a stop in Birmingham for his 2023 UK tour, and the choir were invited to join him and his band at The Mill in Digbeth pre-gig to record a unique live version of the single.“It was such a pleasure to meet and spend time with the brilliant folks from The Choir With No Name,” said the singer, discussing the collaboration. “There was a lot of love in the room that afternoon and their energy and joyous performance elevated the track even higher.

Danny Goffey has announced details of his third solo album ‘Bryan Moone’s DiscoPunk’ and an accompanying limited edition book. Check out the first single from the record ‘Everybody’s On Drugs’ below, alongside our chat with the Supergrass drummer and indie star.‘Bryan Moone’s DiscoPunk’ follows Goffey’s 2018 album ‘Schtick’ and was recorded after the end of the first coronavirus-enforced lockdown in 2020, with contributions from Goffey’s Supergrass bandmate Gaz Coombes, as well as Ed Harcourt and Louis Eliot.“Me and Simon [Byrt, producer], who I’ve worked with on my other two albums, we were really gagging for it,” Goffey said.

Supergrass have announced a special reissue of their self-titled third studio album.Released back in 1999, the original record contains the singles ‘Moving’, ‘Pumping On Your Stereo’ and ‘Mary’. It landed at Number Three in the official UK albums chart.Today (August 10) the Oxford band have shared details of a remastered and expanded version of ‘Supergrass’ (AKA ‘The X-Ray Album’) which will come out on September 16 via BMG (pre-order/pre-save here).Per a press release, the 2xCD and 2xLP editions will include a full remaster of the original tracks, sourced and re-produced by the group and their original long-standing record producer John Cornfield.They’ll also boast studio outtakes, previously-unreleased demos, B-sides, rare live tracks and exclusive 2022 remixes, as well as two re-imagined singles by John Leckie and Mick Quinn, and two remixed deep cuts by Mick Quinn and John Cornfield.We are excited to announce our classic 1999 album 'Supergrass' remastered.

Gaz Coombes has released a new track today (June 7) called ‘Sonny The Strong’. Listen to it below.The Supergrass frontman wrote the song about a semi-fictinalized British boxer in post-World War II Britain.“This track was always going to have a biographical story arc to it,” Coombes said of his latest song. “For me it was just a case of finding the inspiration.

Supergrass have appeared on American television for the first time in nearly 16 years, going on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week to perform ‘Richard III’.The performance, which aired Monday night (May 23), was the band’s first on Kimmel’s show. They had last appeared on a late-night US talk show in 2006, when they played on Last Call with Carson Daly.

Gaz Coombes has spoken about taking Valium on a flight with The Cure‘s Robert Smith, who was his hero growing up.The Supergrass frontman and soloist in his own name was being quizzed in NME‘s Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! feature recently when he recalled hanging out with Smith while on a flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.When NME asked Coombes (who formerly covered The Cure songs in his old band, The Jennifers) what it felt like to learn that Smith regarded him as a younger version of himself, he answered: “It means loads, man! He was on a bedroom wall when I was 10/11-years-old.”Coombes continued: “Seven years later, I’m sat next to [Smith] on a flight to Rio.

Supergrass have postponed all of their remaining December shows due to the “uncertainty” caused by a rise of Omicron cases in the UK.READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Supergrass’ Gaz CoombesThe band were set to play their first hometown show in 12 years on December 18 at the O2 Academy Oxford, followed by a gig in Glasgow and a headline show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. All three shows will be rescheduled for next year.Announcing the postponement on Twitter, Supergrass wrote: “Folks, we’re so sorry but we’re going to have to postpone our December shows.

The Libertines have announced a series of UK dates celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Up The Bracket’.The band, who are already in the middle of their ‘Giddy Up A Ding-Dong Tour’, have announced three huge outdoor shows in Manchester, Hatfield and Cardiff along with an indoor show in Edinburgh.The shows will kick off at Castlefield Bowl on July 1 before moving on to Hatfield House on July 22, Cardiff Bute Park on August 5 and Edinburgh O2 Academy on August 8.Support will come from Supergrass at Hatfield House, while Sports Team will support the band’s dates in Manchester and Cardiff. Tickets for the gigs go on sale this Friday (December 3) at 9am.