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“Nice… Really Nice”: Supergrass Go Jazz

added 18 August 2005 at 14.32

Supergrass launch their new album ‘Road To Rouen’ with a special acoustic performance at London’s legendary jazz club Ronnie Scott’s mixing hangovers, hits and new material.

Gone were the cigars and 20-minunte noodling jazz solos, but in their place Ronnie Scott’s played host today (August 18) to a forty-five minute semi-acoustic set from Supergrass to mark the release of their new record.

Just a couple of hundred fans crammed into the London jazz club as the four-piece, joined by their touring percussion player, packed onto the tiny stage for a selection of hits and new material.

Beginning solo, a hung-over (by his own admission) Gaz Coombes performed an acoustic ‘St. Petersburg’, before being joined by bass player Mick Quinn for an acoustic ‘Caught By The Fuzz’. The rest of the band then
joined for new tracks ‘Tales Of Endurance’ and
‘Roxy’ before introducing ‘Moving’ as “the singalong, in place of ‘Alright’”.

Finishing with a final ‘Sun Hits The Sky’ and new album-closer ‘Fin’ the band left the stage briefly before returning for an encore of Gil Scott Heron’s ‘Lady Day And John Coltrane’ and ‘Mary'. 

Sources suggest that this may not be the last we see of acoustic Supergrass in such an intimate setting, regardless of drummer Danny Goffey’s exclamation as he raced out of the building…

“Never Again!”

The full setlist ran as follows:

1. St. Petersburg
2. Caught By The Fuzz
3. Kiss Of Life
4. Tales Of Endurance
5. Roxy
6. Moving
7. Low C
8. Road To Rouen
9. Bullet
10. Sun Hits The Sky
11. Fin
    
    
12. Lady Day And John Coltrane
13. Mary

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