didn't know this bit of Supergrass trivia, found out about it in a Gaz Coombes interview
The success of the record was helped by a lively promotional video directed by Dom and Nic, featuring the band joyfully messing around on bicycles and a bed on wheels at Portmeirion in North Wales.Having seen the video, Steven Spielberg approached the band and proposed that they work together on a television series in the style of The Monkees.[8] The group turned him down,[8] preferring to work on their second album In It for the Money. Troy Carpenter, co-director of Nude as the News, claims "the gesture says a lot about the band's personality — one which has stuck with the group throughout its career — which is basically that of a fun-loving rock group whose undeniable musical talent is sometimes overshadowed by the sheer ebullience of its music."[9]
― nomar, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link