Supergrass On Their Crisis Consequences
Supergrass speak exclusively to Xfm about their charitable side project - Crisis Consequences, which Beth Ditto, Paul Weller and Graham Coxon have all been playing.
Supergrass are busy monkeys these days, aren't they? Not content with releasing their sixth album 'Diamond Hoo Ha' in March, creating pseudo-characters Randy and Duke Diamond, and touring intimate venues as the Diamond Hoo Ha Men, Danny Goffey and Gaz Coombes have take on a charitable project as well.
Entitled 'Crisis Consequences', Crisis being the homelessness charity it supports and Consequences being the game which involves different people contributing different parts of a story or drawing without seeing each other's contributions, Supergrass have created the musical version.
Over the course of five days last November artists including Paul Weller, The Enemy, Beth Ditto, Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Graham Coxon, Ed Harcourt, Pearl Lowe (Powder), New Young Pony Club, Drew McConnell (Babyshambles) and of course Supergrass were each played a basic melody and asked to write and record their various parts without hearing each others.
"It's a few artists coming in," Danny explained. "We had a basic structure of the song and everyone chipped in, wrote melody and changed it. Beth Ditto's singing on it at the moment."
"It was really good to see all those artists coming in," Gaz added, "They were under pressure as they only got to hear the song once and then had to lay their personality on it. But we got great results, a really good vibe and everyone did so well."
The track is due to be released in March with a massive live show at the Roundhouse on March 2 with all the acts involved [Buy Tickets].
Check out the rest of the interview with Supergrass here (you will need to sign up to Xfm Plus to view this article and listen to the audio).
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