GAZ COOMBES

Ex-Supergrass frontman comes to Germany again Live in Cologne in November 2023 With Supergrass, main songwriter and frontman Gaz Coombes experienced worldwide stardom, placing five of the six Supergrass albums in the British Top 10, winning major awards such as the Igor Novello Award as well as numerous BRIT, Q and NME Awards - and at times living the life of a true rock star, with all the pros and cons. Since the demise of Supergrass in 2010, Coombes has proven with each new release that he is undoubtedly one of Britain's finest and most versatile songwriters. More than ever, this is true for his fourth solo album "Turn The Car Around" released on January 13, with which he already toured Europe in the spring. Now he comes to Germany again in the fall and plays an exclusive concert in Cologne on November 1, 2023. It was absolutely without alternative that Gaz Coombes would dedicate his life to music. His father, a great jazz aficionado, raised him and his three brothers in the almost constant presence of music, and got all four sons to learn the piano as children. While the three brothers remained faithful to keyboard instruments to this day, Gaz switched to guitar after a few years. At the age of 14, things really took off: his first own band. His first record contract with the Supergrass forerunner The Jennifers had to be signed by his mother, because he was not yet 18 years old. In 1993 Supergrass was founded. The very first album, "I Should Coco," landed at the top of the UK charts in 1995 and also placed high in the charts in Scandinavia, Australia and even Japan. It was the beginning of a remarkable world career, during which Supergrass released five more fantastic albums and delivered 13 Top 30 hits for the British charts. At the work of their seventh, still unfinished album "Release the Drones", the band broke up due to too much creative differences. After 17 years, Supergrass announced their breakup in 2010. After the Supergrass end, Coombes returned to the art and craft of sublimely composed, mature songs. After the death of his mother in 2005, he moved with his wife and two children to his childhood home in Oxford and set up his own recording studio. It was in this place that his solo debut "Here Come The Bombs", released in 2012, was born. He himself wrote and produced the entire record, recorded almost all the instruments and distributed it through his own label Hot Fruit. With the two following solo albums "Matador" (2015) and "World's Strongest Man" (2018), both beloved by critics and fans alike, he gradually opened up again to collaborations with other musicians, while continuing to focus on the perfectly composed song. With the album "Turn The Car Around" released earlier this year, Gaz Coombes has fully returned to band music: It is the first solo album he recorded entirely with his seven-piece live band, which has been a permanent fixture for many years. And it shows a maturity and sovereign elegance in composition and arrangement that more than does justice to the 46-year-old, who has been a full-blooded musician for over three decades now. Gaz Coombes has fully emancipated himself as an artist from Supergrass - so much so that, since 2019, he has even felt like playing rousing reunion shows with his ex-band again and again. -