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Scottish Sun
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Supergrass roll back years with blistering Barrowlands performance on Glasgow leg of anniversary tour
Read on to find out how the 90s legends fared on the first of two nights Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) It's been 30 years since Supergrass released their debut album. But - to look at the energy of the band and the Glasgow crowd - it doesn't feel like it. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Supergrass' Gaz Coombes enjoying the moment at the Barrowlands Credit: Getty 4 Mick Quinn of Supergrass Credit: Getty Most here in the Barrowlands would rather not think about the passage of time, I'm sure. But thankfully, as the band launches into the first song off the album, one fan steps forward to remind us. "Put your phones away, it was the 1990s", she yells at people videoing the band. Supergrass is touring I Should Coco, where the public first became acquainted with the three lads from Oxford. On the first of two nights in Glasgow, the band rips through I'd Like To Know before going straight into the classic cautionary coming of age track Caught By The Fuzz. For anyone who had a misspent youth falling foul of the police and parents it hits close to home - not for me of course. It's soon time for seminal Britpop classic, Alright, a song which is perhaps bigger than the band itself due to being a staple of indie and rock radio for the past three decades. And frontman Gaz Coombes is obviously acutely aware of this, as he wryly introduces it as "so then, track four" before the familiar piano riff kicks in. Bands playing albums from start to finish can be a different experience. The traditional structure of the live show is replaced with the ebbs and flows of a studio recording. Eagle-eyed Glastonbury fans work out Britpop legends are playing festival after spotting tour date clue It's a hard thing to get right but thankfully the band rise to the challenge. Songs like Mansize Rooster and Strange Ones remind you of the youthful exuberance of the band's early sound that made them such a fixture of the mid-1990s British scene. But the punky edge to many of the tracks is also a reminder that, like so many scenes, they actually sounded quite different to the other acts they were lumped in with. They close this side of the gig with the album closer - jaunty acoustic farewell Kinks-like Time To Go. But luckily for the crowd, Supergrass aren't leaving any time soon and deliver a rip-roaring 'best of the rest' set with indie classics like Richard III, Moving and Grace. The band finish their set with an encore of Sun Hits The Sky and singalong favourite Pumping On Your Stereo. It's another sweaty night in the Barrowlands and I'm definitely feeling my age by the end - but for 90 minutes it feels like the crowd and the band are just the same as ever. 4 Supergrass performed I Should Coco on Credit: Handout
The Herald Scotland
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Supergrass at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow review
In September though the Oxford four-piece announced they'd be coming together again for a 30th anniversary celebration of their debut LP, I Should Coco. The Manic Street Preachers played this very venue last month, Pulp will headline the Hydro in June and, of course, there are those Oasis mega-gigs stretching stadiums to capacity across the country. Squint hard enough - and ignore the odd grey hair - and it really could be 1995. Read More: Supergrass were just 19 when their first album - which became Parlophone's biggest debut since The Beatles - was released and Coombes and co still look spry, the singer clad in a dark suit and sporting a trilby. If there's any concern going into proceedings it's that the set may peak too soon. I Should Coco's opening four tracks could all easily fit into an encore, so fireworks are expected from the off. That it fizzles slightly is no slight on the band. While the mix is slightly muddy for the first verse of 'I'd Like To Know' the group are tight, Coombe's Bowie-esque delivery unaffected by the years. The legendary Barras crowd, though, hasn't brought its A-game. Save for some game younger fans, resplendent in Adidas tracksuits down the front, it's mostly pint-supping, head-nodding and, most egregiously of all, chatting. When the band pauses during rollicking, punky second number 'Caught By The Fuzz' it's unclear whether it's a tease or a technical snafu, though the frontman's signal to start again suggests the latter. Either way, the pause is greeted with confused and muted applause. 'It's great to see you all again, you doing alright? Ok, track number 4…' Coombes says by way of introducing international megahit 'Alright'. Supergrass perform at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow (Image: Newsquest) It's well-received, of course it is, but still things don't quite take flight. 'We are young, we run free?' Well, you know, we would but there's the school run to think about. Unfair? Perhaps, and things do liven up for a flawless 'Strange Ones' and 'Sit Up Straight', but Glasgow crowds and the Barras have a stellar worldwide reputation for a reason and it's evident only in patches tonight. Drummer Danny Goffey gets on guitar for album closer 'Time To Go' and the band take a bow to spirited applause. We're then on to some choice cuts from later albums, Coombes now sporting a flashing plastic ring thrown from the front. 'Moving' is the highlight of the night, and 'Pumping On Your Stereo' sends everyone into the balmy evening satisfied. In the end, then, how does one judge it? As a performance it's close to flawless; as an experience it's less than the sum of its parts and it's not Supergrass who are failing to hold up their end of the bargain. The band are great, and the crowd? Well, they're alright.
