Supergrass’s Roundhouse show was a glorious start to Britpop Summer ...Middle East

Nine tracks into an anniversary run through of their classic 1995 debut album, I Should Coco, and Supergrass give London’s Roundhouse a reminder that this was an album very much written in adolescence. “We wrote this one when we were very young about underage sex with older women,” drummer Danny Goffey says about the self-explanatory “She’s So Loose”. “We might not have written this in 2025, guys,” singer Gaz Coombes adds. “We were 16!”

With Britpop’s big summer to come – a historic tour from Oasis, a new album from Pulp, and an album at least called “Britpop” from Robbie Williams – it is only right that what Coombes calls from the stage a “mad little record” also gets it nostalgic due. I Should Coco, a million seller that became record label Parlophone’s fastest-selling debut album since The Beatles, is an exhilarating pop-punk rush in the truest British tradition – with bright, fast, catchy songs about oddballs and outsiders and their teenage escapades.

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Supergrass became immortalised as mutton-chopped scamps, thanks to the cheeky-younger-brothers-go-crazy video of their misleadingly summery megahit, “Alright”. Now 30 years on, and a long way from teenagers, Supergrass nonetheless convince as they return to their younger selves.

Pre-tour, Goffey had expressed doubt as to whether he could still play at the required pace given how frantic many of Coco’s songs are (his Instagram recently posted a tour photo of his drum kit splattered in blood). But the first three tracks race by: “I’d Like to Know” is a whirlwind opener; pints fly during the crunching minor drug bust tale of “Caught by the Fuzz”; while the jaunty, Madness-like “Mansize Rooster” bounces along. “This is track number four,” the trilby-wearing Coombes deadpans before “Alright”, whose anthemic qualities remain undimmed by overexposure.

They keep up the pace with the band’s unofficial anthem “Strange Ones” and “Sitting Up Straight”, an ode to dossing about on the bus. But the two songs they’ve rarely performed before were a mixed bag: the silly ditty “We’re Not Supposed To” (“acid might have been involved,” Coombes says) is exposed as slight; much better is the dreamy mini-epic “Sofa of my Lethargy”.

A second set of singles shows how the band evolved in the years that followed: capable of going harder (“Richard III”), more elegiac (“Late in the Day”) and weirder (the horror soundscape of “Mary”): the darker undercurrents of the magnificent “Moving” casting a shadow over Coco’s exuberance. But an encore of a delirious “Sun Hits the Sky” and the daft glam stomp of “Pumping on Your Stereo” show they were still writing radio-friendly pop.

No doubt with a knowing irony, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” plays over the speakers as the band exit: it was certainly a night that recaptured youthful hi-jinks for the middle aged.

Supergrass tour their 30th anniversary tour around the UK to 16th August 

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