| Name |
Gaz Coombes |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
English |
| Date of Birth |
8-March-1976 |
| Place of Birth |
Oxford, England |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Gaz Coombes is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band, Super grass. He first entered the music scene aged sixteen as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers which featured Super grass band mate Danny Goffey. Coombes was noticeable for his large sideburns during the 1990s. In 1993 after The Jennifers disbanded, Coombes, Goffey and Quinn formed Super grass.
In 2002 Coombes' brother keyboardist Rob Coombes officially joined the band. Before that he was studying for an Astrophysics degree at Cardiff University. The band released six studio albums in their 17 years together, each of them entering the UK top 20: I Should Coco (1995), In It for the Money (1997), Super grass (1999), Life on Other Planets (2002), Road to Rouen (2005) and Diamond Hoo Ha (2008). They also released a singles compilation Super grass is 10 (2004), commemorating the first decade of the band's life. During the height of Super grass' fame around 1995, Coombes received offers from "Italian Vogue" and most notably, "Calvin Klein", to model for them in their ad campaigns and magazine publications, as well as an offer from Steven Spielberg to make a Monkees-style TV show of the band. Coombes however, along with the rest of the band, declined these offers, saying; "Yes, we probably would have been face down in a pool if we'd said yes to all that. I mean, our heads would have returned to our shoulders at some point, but... it felt like cheating. Too easy. Short cut. Y'know? If you have to do all that to be the biggest band in the world then... then what does that say about your music? And all that... would have just got in the way of the music. It would have taken so long to get to grips with.
We'd have lost years." Coombes announced on 28 October in The Hotrats and Super grass Facebook page that he is currently working on his first solo album, recorded at his studio in Oxford with producer Sam Williams, and claiming that the record is on its final stages, plans to release it in 2011. He plays most of the instruments on the record. Coombes starred in an advert for the Toyota Yaris where he plays himself and encounters a fan who wants a picture with him. The Super grass single "Pumping on Your Stereo" also appears in the advert. Coombes appeared on and produced the single "Wonderful" by Little Fish, which was released in October 2011. In December 2011, Coombes performed his first solo shows at The Rotunda in Oxford and released his debut solo single "Hot Fruit" on 14 March 2012. His debut album, Here Come the Bombs was released shortly after and was well received by critics and fans alike.
