Supergrass announce ‘I Should Coco’ UK 30th anniversary tour
Supergrass have announced their return with details of a 30th anniversary UK tour celebrating seminal album ‘I Should Coco’.
The band announced this morning (September 16) that they’ll be celebrating 20 years of their debut album with a run of shows in May 2025, taking place in Glasgow, Nottingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds, before a show at the Roundhouse in London.
They’ll be playing ‘I Should Coco’ in full, before an encore with some of their biggest hits. Bassist Mick Quinn said: “15 May 2025 marks 30 years since ‘I Should Coco’. Supergrass are thrilled to announce their return to perform the début album live, in its entirety, for the first time.”
He finished by joking, “Dynamic pricing not included,” a reference to the controversy surrounding the Oasis reunion tour. When tickets for the tour went on sale last month, some fans were disappointed that tickets were listed for inflated prices due to Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” strategy, with some reportedly paying over £350 for tickets with a face value of £150 – leading to the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to be looking into the practice.
‘I Should Coco’ debuted at Number Three on the charts. Following Supergrass’ Glastonbury show later that summer, it hit Number One, and sold over 500,000 copies in the UK. With over a million sales worldwide, it’s the biggest-selling debut album from Parlophone Records since The Beatles.
Among the tracks on the album were the singles ‘Caught By The Fuzz‘ and ‘Alright‘, with the latter peaking at Number Two.
Check out the full tour dates below, and find tickets here. They go on pre-sale from 10am on Wednesday (September 18), and on general sale from 9am on Friday (September 20).
The announcement follows a cryptic post the band made on Friday (September 13), which suggested a new announcement to come this morning.
The Britpop legends split in 2010, before announcing their return in 2019 on a mission to “bring joy into a slightly disturbed world”.
“I think there was an irreverence and a joy to our band, and a lack of earnest pretence,” frontman Gaz Coombes told NME at the time. “We didn’t take things to seriously and that would come across in a lot of different ways. But we had the tunes to back it up too. We had this clout. Tracks like ‘Richard III’, ‘Sun Hits The Sky’ or ‘Caught By The Fuzz’, they have a humour but we took it to heart and took it seriously.
“I don’t know what’s different these days. I find the music industry quite exciting at the moment because it’s so new and embryonic in so many ways. It’s quite mad. Where the fuck is it going to go? I’m quite interested to be on that journey and see where it goes. I’m fascinated to see where Supergrass fits in with all that next year. We’re going to have a laugh and bring that Supergrass energy and joy into a slightly disturbed world.”
Supergrass had been on hiatus since 2022, when they played at the Taylor Hawkins tribute show at Wembley Stadium. Shortly after their three-song set, Quinn wrote on X/Twitter that it would be the band’s last show for the “foreseeable future”. They’d played a series of festivals over that summer, as well as a run of UK dates.
Over the past couple of years, the members of the band had been working on their own projects, with frontman Gaz Coombes releasing his fourth solo album, ‘Turn The Car Around‘, in January last year. Quinn, meanwhile, is also part of the shoegaze band Swervedriver, who last released an album, ‘Future Ruins’, in 2019.
Coombes discussed the chances of a reunion with NME last year, too, saying, “Reunions can’t go on forever and they’ve got to have some sort of lifespan. It was always gonna be that year, we were gonna do everything in 2020.
“But because of what happened with the pandemic, obviously it got spread out into two and a half, almost three years which is pretty crazy. But it’s cool that it ended in a way where we could definitely look at the possibility of other shows down the line if it feels right and if everyone’s in the right place.”
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Adam England
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