1. Gareth Michael "Gaz" Coombes was born on 8 March 1976 and is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Supergrass.
21 Facts About Gaz Coombes
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Gaz Coombes first entered the music scene aged 14 as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers which featured Supergrass bandmate Danny Goffey.
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Gaz Coombes's father was a food scientist, who enjoyed playing jazz piano, and his mother was an English teacher.
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Gaz Coombes played classical piano at this age, but gradually moved on to an interest in playing guitar.
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Gaz Coombes began to attend Wheatley Park School in Holton, Oxfordshire, but found himself being picked on for being 'girly'.
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Danny Goffey was two years older than Gaz Coombes and helped to "protect him" from being teased.
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Gaz Coombes grew sideburns and they [other pupils] gave him loads of shit, but I was really into him.
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Gaz Coombes first entered the music world at age 14 as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers.
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Gaz Coombes would take old Jennifers demos and play them over the restaurant's PA system before it opened, and this eventually led to him meeting Mick Quinn, a co-worker who played bass guitar and shared his musical tastes.
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In 1999, Gaz Coombes made an appearance on the "Da Ali G Show" and played the Supergrass song "Sun Hits the Sky", whilst having to deal with Ali G 'remixing' it as he performed.
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Gaz Coombes appeared on The Annex on RTE 2fm with Jenny Huston alongside Goffey before Supergrass took the stage at Malahide Castle in Dublin, Ireland to support Arctic Monkeys on 16 June 2007.
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Gaz Coombes announced on 28 October in The Hotrats and Supergrass Facebook page that he was working on his first solo album, recorded at his studio in Oxford with producer Sam Williams, and claimed that the record was on its final stages, planned to release it in 2011.
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Gaz Coombes played most of the instruments on the record.
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Gaz Coombes starred in an advert for the Toyota Yaris where he plays himself and encounters a fan who wants a picture with him.
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Gaz Coombes appeared on and produced the single "Wonderful" by Little Fish, which was released in October 2011.
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In December 2011, Gaz Coombes performed his first solo shows at The Rotunda in Oxford and released his debut solo single "Hot Fruit" on 14 March 2012.
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In May 2014, Gaz Coombes recorded a cover version of The Kinks' song "This Time Tomorrow" for a television advertisement for the UK department store, John Lewis.
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On 24 June 2016, Gaz Coombes supported The Last Shadow Puppets at Bristol Summer Series.
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On 10 January 2018, Gaz Coombes announced his third solo album, World's Strongest Man would be released in May The announcement was accompanied by the launch of the single "Deep Pockets".
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Gaz Coombes originally lived in Wheatley, then at 345 Cowley Road, East Oxford.
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Gaz Coombes is a Manchester United fan, and has appeared on the club's TV channel, MUTV.