Supergrass have announced a reunion tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album.

The ten-date tour next year will be the first time the Oxford band, who split in 2010 but reunited in 2020, have ever played their debut album I Should Coco live in its entirety.

I Should Coco sold more than one million copies worldwide.

It includes various references to the band's home city of Oxford throughout - including the song Strange Ones, which was written about the Cowley Road.

Supergrass were one of the biggest bands of the 1990s, scoring six top 20 albums, three of them platinum – including 1995’s I Should Coco, which was the biggest-selling debut for Parlophone since the Beatles released Please Please Me in 1963.

Hits included chart-topper Alright, Richard III, Sun Hits The Sky, Pumping On Your Stereo, Moving and Grace.

Originally from Wheatley, the band featured Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn, Danny Goffey, and Rob Coombes.

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The group grew out of Gaz and Danny's previous band The Jennifers, and formed in 1993.

Their first single, Caught By The Fuzz, was released in 1994 and propelled them to fame as one of the leading bands of the mid-1990s Britpop scene.

The band lived in East Oxford as their careers took off and played sets at the Jericho Tavern and at other music venues in the city.

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They gained huge success in the Britpop era. I Should Coco was followed by In It For The Money in 1997, and Supergrass (aka 'The X-ray Album') in 1999. Their fourth album was called Life On Other Planets.

They were one of the bands chosen to play with Radiohead at South Park in 2001 in front of thousands of music fans.

Supergrass split in 2010, during the recording of scrapped seventh album Release The Drones.

But they went on to reform in 2020 and released a career-spanning boxset.

Gaz Coombes has enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist, and Mick Quinn now plays in the DB Band.

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