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Gaz Coombes claims Billie Eilish is a big Supergrass fan through iconic Glastonbury story-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro
The band are super gassed.
The band are super gassed that icon Billie Eilish is a fan (Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for ABA/Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
Billie Eilish is a Supergrass fan, according to frontman Gaz Coombes – lucky him.
The Bad Guy singer, 21, quickly became music royalty in 2015 when she climbed the charts with her brother Finneas (who writes and produces her songs) via their dreamy single Ocean Eyes.
Billie, who was only 14 when she recorded Ocean Eyes, has since been honoured as the youngest ever headliner at Glastonbury – a title she claimed in 2022.
So it’s no wonder legendary rockers like Supergrass are super excited to call the When The Party’s Over artist is a fan of theirs.
The reunited Britpop group played The Other Stage at the iconic Glastonbury festival last summer, and Gaz, 46, has revealed the US megastar was side of stage singing along to their song Sun Hits The Sky.
Gaz told NME: ‘I didn’t see her but I heard she was singing along to Sun Hits The Sky on our little viewing gantry [on The Other Stage] which was kind of cool.
Billie rocked out at Glastonbury in 2022 as the youngest ever headliner (Picture: Matthew Baker/Redferns)
This is the Glastonbury Supergrass performance Gaz says Billie was watching (Picture: Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
‘I’ve got huge respect for her. I think what she does is great and how she does it is cool. They’re an interesting writing team, Eilish and her brother [Finneas] as well.’
The (more than) Alright rockers – completed by Danny Goffey, Mick Quinn and Rob Coombes – have a long history with the Worthy Farm festival, having first played in 1995, and Gaz says it helped ‘shaped our band in many ways’.
He added: ‘Glastonbury was a real moment for us, just to play there again on The Other Stage.
‘We always had a bit of a love affair with Glastonbury from our earliest performance in ’95. That shaped our band in many ways, that early performance. I just remember being quite excitable but kind of nervous and young at the time.
Gaz Coombes back in the day at Glastonbury 1997 (Picture: Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)
Billie’s brother Finneas O’Connell made an appearance on the Pyramid Stage with the singer in 2022 (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)
‘It was that combination of s*** my pants but having this excitement that needed to be released, which are always good ingredients for a live performance.’
Supergrass, formed in 1993 in Oxford, boast several million record sales, including 6 top 10 albums and 10 top 20 singles.
‘It was being in the studio that broke us,’ Gaz told The Guardian in 2020 on why they stopped making music, and how focusing on live shows are their future.
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He continued: ‘For me it was almost like post-traumatic stress – why would you want to revisit a place where one feels it was at its worst? Supergrass has always been about manic energy. The essence of playing live is where it really works.’
And that it does – if having Billie Eilish as a fangirl is anything to go by.
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