Imagine a balmy bank holiday weekend on the sand in one of Europe’s most beautiful beaches sweeping out into the Atlantic and waiting for Supergrass to emerge as the sun sets behind the stage for only the second show on the band’s triumphant homage return to live action, celebrating the Britpop bohemoth that is ‘I Should Coco’ and true to their word the band amble on stage to kick things off with a loose run through said album as ‘I’d Like To Know’ sets the tempo and the large crowd gathered are well up for some rambunctious rock n roll.

The years are peeled away and I’m taken back to shows from their glorious beginnings and nights kicking out the jams in Newport Centre and universities leaping round like a salmon as ‘Caught By The Fuzz’ unfolds coincidentally as a group of his majesty finest amble through the crowd as the air is filled with wafts of super skunk bloody poetry in motion right there and a scene not lost on Gaz I should’t imagine.

The crowd sing along as expected to ‘Alright’, but it’s over as quickly as it began, but after the final restraints of ‘Late In The Day’ it’s a quick dust down of some of their other hits from susaquent records ‘Sun Hits The Sky’, followed by ‘Moving’ before we get all sweaty with ‘Richard iii’ and they leave us with a sing-a-long of ‘Pumping Up Your Stereo’ and they’re out of here. That was a fantastic reminder to just how good a band Supergrass are, they have some mighty fine songs and a clutch of great albums in their arsenal if you should be inclined to catch a show on their jaunt around the UK later this month then on this performance alone, I suggest you make the effort. Tunes on the Bay was a fantastic example of how to do a small festival well, and I look forward to next year’s showing. Will I be there? I should bloody well coco.

Author: Dom Daley