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3 unusual facts about supergrass


Bond Offshore Helicopters

The company also provides VIP charter services, and in the past have flown Tony Blair, Razorlight and Supergrass to various locations.

Dancing Stage Universe

The soundtrack for this release features licensed music by The Prodigy, All Saints & Supergrass, including new and classic tracks from Konami.

Here Come the Bombs

Here Come the Bombs is the debut solo album of former Supergrass front man Gaz Coombes, who performed all of the instruments on the album.


Adictos Al Ruido Versión UK

Most of the interviews take place at pubs or venues of Liverpool, but also there are a few interviews that have been recorded in Manchester (with The Buzzcocks, The Vaccines and I Am Kloot), Sheffield (Supergrass), London (Los Updates), Paris (Paris Combo) and Granada (Niños Mutantes).

Amber Sainsbury

Notable supporters of the charity include the bands Coldplay and Supergrass, actors Josh Hartnett and David Walliams and supermodel and photographer Helena Christensen.

Andrew Montgomery

In 1996 The band was signed to the record label Nude, who were well known at the time as the record label for the bands Suede, The Jennifers (later Supergrass) and Black Box Recorder.

Fighting with Wire

They played at Belfast City Hall on New Year's Eve with Supergrass and The Pigeon Detectives

Jericho Tavern

In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was an important part of the music scene which spawned Ride, Radiohead and Supergrass.

Norman Skelhorn

In 1972, Skelhorn gave bank robber Bertie Smalls, Britain's first true supergrass, immunity from prosecution in light of the amounts and detail of his Queen's evidence.

Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry

He also presided over the supergrass trial in 1983 where Kevin McGrady, a former IRA member, gave evidence which led to the conviction of seven out of ten defendants.

Shirehorses

Other parodies include "I Want a Roll with It" (spoofing "Roll with It" by Oasis), "Feel Like Shite" ("Alright" by Supergrass), and "Country Spouse" ("Country House" by Blur).

The Minutes

The band have toured extensively in Ireland and the UK with the likes of Albert Hammond Jnr The Strokes, The Pigeon Detectives, The Von Bondies, Supergrass and Flogging Molly forging their reputation along the way as a must see act for the future.

Thomas D'Arcy

They played in nightclubs they were not yet old enough to get into (due to the legal drinking age in Ontario being 19) and turned their love of bands like Weezer, Supergrass, Buzzcocks and Television into a power pop sound all their own.

Tony Lundy

Throughout the 1970s, the supergrass was a feared tool that the police had begun using which is generally considered to have begun with Bertie Smalls, who, faced with a hefty prison sentence for his part in leading his gang of armed robbers, the 'Wembley Mob', decided to turn 'Queen's Evidence' against his fellow thieves which resulted in them receiving heavy prison sentences whilst Smalls was granted immunity from prosecution.

University of Wales, Newport

As well as weekly social events and club nights, the union organises Freshers' Fortnight, Freshers' Fayre, Re: Freshers Week, RAG (Raising and Giving Week) and the May Ball which has previously had headline acts including Supergrass, Girls Aloud, Electric Six, Scouting for Girls, The Zutons and Feeder.


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