1. Daniel Robert Goffey was born on 7 February 1974 and is an English musician and singer-songwriter.
18 Facts About Danny Goffey
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Danny Goffey is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for Supergrass.
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Danny Goffey briefly toured with Babyshambles in 2010, following their drummer's departure.
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Danny Goffey was born on 7 February 1974 in Eton, Berkshire, and started his music career as a child when he formed his first band, The Jubbly Spufflewubs, which consisted of his brother on guitar and friend David Mackay.
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Danny Goffey had no drums so had to accompany the others by hitting chopsticks on lunch boxes.
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Danny Goffey embarked on a solo project in 2006 using the pseudonym "Van Danny Goffey", a name based on the artist Vincent van Gogh.
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Danny Goffey was a drummer for the collective of musicians called Twisted X who released a charity football song called "Born in England" which charted at number 8 in the UK Singles Charts in 2004.
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Danny Goffey appeared with Supergrass on a 'Top Gear of the Pops' special programme for Comic Relief 2007.
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The idea for the song came from Danny Goffey and his girlfriend, Pearl Lowe, who is an ambassador for the Crisis charity.
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On 7 March 2008, Danny Goffey accompanied politician Boris Johnson in a bid to try to save the post office near where he had grown up in Forest Hill, at Stanton St John, Oxfordshire.
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Danny Goffey appeared as a contestant in the sixth series of Celebrity Masterchef on BBC One, in which he reached the semi-finals.
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Danny Goffey is the son of Chris Danny Goffey, motoring journalist and ex-presenter of Top Gear, and his mother is an ex-Labour Party councillor.
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Danny Goffey's brother is Nic Goffey, of the directing partnership Dom and Nic.
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Danny Goffey lived in Berkshire up until the age of 13, at which point his family relocated to the Oxfordshire village of Forest Hill, approximately 4.5 miles east of Oxford.
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Danny Goffey began to attend nearby Wheatley Park School, where he met Gaz Coombes, two years his junior, on the playing fields of Wheatley School and asked him to form a band with him.
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In 1993, he and Coombes began to share a house on Cowley Road in east Oxford, and Danny Goffey later managed to complete his A-levels at Henley College in Henley-upon-Thames.
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Danny Goffey worked as a catering assistant in a school at this time.
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The lyrics for "Going Out" were causing arguments, as Danny Goffey presumed that Coombes had written them about the column inches he and Lowe had been achieving.