Live Glastonbury Review | Supergrass

One of the first bands to perform at Glastonbury 2025 was Supergrass

The band emerged on Friday in front of a backdrop featuring the artwork from their debut album I Should Coco, showing the original trio Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey as snarling, snot-nosed, monobrowed youths. 

Author | Josh T

It is hard to ignore the gulf between those scrappy caricatures and the salt and pepper-haired gents now standing on the Pyramid Stage. Coombes, looking sharp in a blazer and newsboy cap, is ageing with particular ease. And as they tear into the opening one-two of I’d Like to Know and Caught by the Fuzz, it is clear that some of that youthful snarl still lingers.

The band are on the road celebrating the 30th anniversary of Coco and Friday’s set, exactly three decades since their Glastonbury debut, sees much of the album performed in chronological order. There are positives to that. 

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Album cuts like I’d Like to Know and Strange Ones, both deserving of more attention, get their moment. But it also means the more ambitious band those modish tearaways became is somewhat left in the background.

It does not help that the biggest singalongs, Mansize Rooster and of course Alright, arrive early in the set and are ticked off a little too soon. By the time the woozier second-half tracks like Sofa (of My Lethargy) and She’s So Loose appear, the temperature is getting warmer and the crowd does start to think about what they're watching next.

The mood lifts the moment Coombes announces they are jumping ahead a few years before launching into the snarling riff of Richard III. From there, it is a straight run of crowd-pleasers. Late in the Day, Mary with its gleeful, caterwauling chorus, Moving and a gloriously loose, psychedelic Sun Hits the Sky. By the time they close with Pumping on Your Stereo, hands are in the air, the singalongs are in full swing and the festival feels like it has properly found its rhythm.