Gaz Coombes was “nervous” about reuniting Supergrass after the success of his solo albums.
The frontman’s solo information have been critically acclaimed, along with his 2015 report ‘Matador’ even nominated for the Mercury Prize, and he did have some trepidation about reforming the ‘Alright’ band in 2019, as he thought it will be a “backward step”.
Nonetheless, Gaz proved himself incorrect as he managed to proceed his solo profession and make success of the Supergrass reunion, concurrently.
Chatting with Basic Pop journal, he admitted: “Sure, I used to be anxious about that.
“Having acquired right into a move and the final two albums having achieved so properly, it appeared a bit odd, like a backward step. However then I used to be assured that I might function each issues collectively and it appears that evidently I did, as a result of I used to be clearly penning this report primarily in the course of the reunion so.
I really feel like I made finest use of each issues.”
Gaz not too long ago admitted he left Supergrass because it had stopped making him comfortable.
The 46-year-old singer-songwriter mentioned he wanted to seek out pleasure once more in music as a solo artist as soon as he left the band, which introduced in 2010 they had been splitting as a result of inventive variations.
He mentioned: “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.”
He added about launching his solo profession: “I realised that simply because I wasn’t within the band did not imply I used to be going to cease.”
Gaz mentioned about his first solo report, 2012’s ‘Right here Comes the Bombs’: “It was transitional, there was undoubtedly a hangover from Supergrass.”
The musician launched his fourth solo LP ‘Flip the Automotive Round’ earlier this month, the follow-up to 2018’s ‘World’s Strongest Man’.