Coombes appeared on The Annex on 2fm with Jenny Huston alongside Goffey before Supergrass took the stage at Malahide Castle in Dublin, Ireland to support Arctic Monkeys on 16 June 2007.
strange thing to have in someone's wikipedia. but pleased the town i grew up in has made it in there.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
like who on earth would add a line to say that a musician who has prob played 3000 gigs and done 6000 interviews once did an interview before a gig.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
i am trying to parody how banal it is and i can't
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Coombes, 39, will have proven to his critics that the former purveyor of indie rock at the height of Britpop can indeed make an album of largely electronic material, and find acclaim in doing so
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
It's been almost a month since Bath's Ping Coombes was crowned the 10th winner of Masterchef after wowing judges with her
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Shazza Coombe is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Shazza Coombe and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and ...
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
No results found for "the gaz man coombeth"
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 October 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gkHcfpJhsXk/hqdefault.jpg
this YouTube still reminds me of something
― (emphasis mine) (wins), Saturday, 17 October 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
in general my takeaway from GIS is that it was probably a mistake for nick cave and jack black to attempt to use seth brundel's teleporter together
― (emphasis mine) (wins), Saturday, 17 October 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
gazprömbes
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Saturday, 17 October 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
Gaz Coombes... introspective and experimental.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 October 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Who the fuck is Gaz Coombes?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, November 16, 2015 8:36 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mattresslessness, Monday, 16 November 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
He released an album in 2012 that was completely ignored. Matador is a better record than that one but I don't know why it's had such a bigger reaction from the UK music press. I'm happy for him as I absolutely adored Supergrass.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, November 16, 2015 4:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup! Totally agree.
― Turrican, Monday, November 16, 2015 8:15 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan) wrote this on thread abysmal real names on board I Love Everything on Oct 12, 2014
Gaz Coombes
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Gaz Coombes?
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gaz coombes?
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Gaz. Coombes.
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I get the same thing with Gaz Coombes. Gaz Coombes!
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― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
dude's name is some newsie-wewsies blood sausage type shit
― sarahell, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
arguably the best thing to happen to gaz coombes since gaz coombes
― Amblyomma_americanum_tick.jpg (wins), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
If you can keep your Gaz when all about youAre losing Coombes and blaming it on you
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Has, rather.
― sarahell, Monday, 16 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
the gaz man coombeth, and nv respondeth curiously
"Musicians" That Look Like Monkeys
― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
great days
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Nov 13@TedneyNash You're on a roll, sir! Keep em coming... 😊🚀View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Sep 20@Vision_Rider Sorry to hear that sir, you didn't see my stage time tweet? Drop me a msg if you want to come to a show, I'll sort u G-list. 😊View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Sep 7Big thanks @joeduddell Such a pleasure to play with the ensemble at the town hall @festivalnumber6 Beautiful arrangements sir, loved it!3 retweets 8 likesReply Retweet 3 Like 8 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Mar 21@JoeSims10 @maxrushden @Jackjashton @HellsBellsy Cheers Joe...great to meet you! Onwards & upwards, sir!View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Feb 22@tomhingleymusic Hey cheers Tom! Yeah Lammo said you were around, hope u had a fine wkend, sir! See u soon :)View conversation 1 retweet 2 likesReply Retweet 1 Like 2 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Feb 20@Glinner aww, thanks sir! xView conversation 0 retweets 5 likesReply Retweet Like 5 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Feb 6“@achrisevans: @GazCoombes You were off the charts my friend. Bloody great. X.” Thanks Chris!...V kind, sir. Really great to see you, man! xView conversation 2 retweets 8 likesReply Retweet 2 Like 8 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Feb 3@StevenJRStone Thank you sir! :)View conversation 1 retweet 0 likesReply Retweet 1 Like More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes Nov 19@Rivsrivers @craufurdarmsmk Thx for having us, man. Great little room & a fine crowd, sir! Cheers :)View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 10 Dec 2013@rankinphoto @Oxfam Enjoyed that! 'Twas a pleasure sir. Hope rest of the day goes well :)View conversation 1 retweet 1 likeReply Retweet 1 Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 6 Dec 2013@mrchrisaddison Hey Thx Chris! Great to meet you sir, it was a wkd eve! Cheers xView conversation 0 retweets 0 likesReply Retweet Like More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 5 Dec 2013@TheHollyJohnson @savechildrenuk A pleasure sir! Soindcheck sounded beautiful! Looking fwd to later!View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 9 Sep 2013@GavRov Hello sir. Hope all's going well on #thelastman Look fwd to seeing it! Fine work on 'Moon' btw..great film & looks stunning! G :)0 retweets 0 likesReply Retweet Like More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 16 Jul 2013@EdwynCollins @DeerShed Looking fwd to it sir ! See you Friday !View conversation 0 retweets 0 likesReply Retweet Like More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 10 Jul 2013@edgarwright Congrats on a brilliant film sir ! Absolutely loved it ! Have a great rest of night & see you soon !1 retweet 0 likesReply Retweet 1 Like More Gaz CoombesVerified account @GazCoombes 1 Jul 2013@mrmichaelsmiley Great to meet you earlier man ! Fine performance sir..you do bad guy so good !View conversation 0 retweets 0 likes
― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
Oh my
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
i'm not racist...http://www.entertainment-news.org/images/thumbnails/jay-z-nas-bury-the-hatchet-at-ny-show.jpg― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:01 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Amblyomma_americanum_tick.jpg (wins), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
i had always assumed Ray Dorset was white but either way i'm not going to excuse my stupidity here
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
12 people found this useful
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
bump
― brimstead, Monday, 16 November 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
Was Hitler a master planner or an opportunist? - The Student Roomwww.thestudentroom.co.uk › ... › History study help23 Mar 2006 - 10 posts - 7 authorsGaz Coombes ... Basically what the question is asking is did Hitler plan everything which happened in this period or did ... Hitler's Zweite Buch
― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Gaz CoombesVerified account@GazCoombesSeen this wk - Downfall, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Secrets In Their Eyes (brilliant) 2nite-Time to revisit 2001! #whoneedsTV #idoworktoo
Matty Dix @matthewcunting 5 Sep 2013@Gaz_Coombes downfall as in the film about Hitler? If so great film
― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
All articles by Plymouth Herald - journalisted.comjournalisted.com/plymouth-herald-6?allarticles=yesSupergrass star Gaz Coombes to play solo show at Exeter Phoenix. plymouthherald.co.uk ...... Now seagulls are vandalising the graves of dead babies.
― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
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― cez goombas (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
gone but not forgotten
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
I need some context here: who would be the nearest American analog to Gaz Coombes? (Natalie Merchant, maybe?)
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 19 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
no, your mom.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 19 November 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
k
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 19 November 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
No results found for "gaz coombes and natalie merchant love each other".
― mattresslessness, Friday, 20 November 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.sierraguitars.net/Images/News/markpressphoto_weblogo.jpg
American Coombes
― when's international me day? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 November 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
smoke a fagput it out
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 20 November 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
does gaz coombes prefer chinese food or fruit
― sarahell, Friday, 20 November 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/YorkshireFests/status/667832540661571584
― Dear Lesbian21 (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 November 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
My local dublinbus stop is no. 2094 fyi
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
Ant @austerityrecs Nov 20@CloningPandas I've got a cheeky £1 on Gaz Coombes. Matador was pretty special. Anybodies guess though really isn't it!View conversation 0 retweets 1 likeReply Retweet Like 1 More Mark Sowerby @marksow Nov 11Cheeky bit of Gaz Coombes on a Wednesday night. https://instagram.com/p/99eJjeI120/ 1 retweet 2 likesReply Retweet 1 Like 2 More Damien A Passmore @damien_a_p Jun 26Man, I really don't like Gaz Coombes' new stuff. Where's all the cheeky songs about having clean teeth or a stereo?0 retweets 0 likesReply Retweet Like More Prathamesh Bhosale @PB_Prathamesh_B May 2Gaz Coombes review – cheeky chappie bares his soul and comes out smiling http://trib.al/mFybUFy
― The term “hitler racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
what do you call a man with no arms and no legs in the water?-- Bob
what do you call a man with no arms and no legs that smells odd?-- Gaz (Coombes)
― sarahell, Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Merry Christmas to you all! Thanks for all your amazing support folks. Have a brilliant, peaceful hols & see you in the New Year! Big love Gx
― hefty organ euston caucus gash coombes squall who've inferiority (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
gaz coombes totally the kind of guy to call xmas "hols"
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
Happy Christmas what a bloody great Gaz year it was! Sian X
― hefty organ euston caucus gash coombes squall who've inferiority (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Great blog from Mike Monaghan on our recent #MercuryPrize BBC6Music session. Lovely words from our Growls too 👏
― hefty organ euston caucus gash coombes squall who've inferiority (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/doctorloz
― Über, Über mensch (wins), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
gazloz
― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/u7lJnFV.jpg
― markers, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
glad to hear that Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys has survived Britpop. top bloke.
― No stage school training, natural talent and attitude by the shed (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 January 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
maybe now 2015 is over it's time for a t/s 2005 vs 2015 britpop anniversary media coverage poll
― Let’s all go on an unban safari, we might see some ilxor migrants (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 January 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
always got time for a Britpop poll
― No stage school training, natural talent and attitude by the shed (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 January 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
but only if it's absolutely chocca with attitude and top, top blokes
GET IN THERE COOMBESY ! THINK OF THE CHILDREN !! FROM UR MAN SLAYMARK !
Donation by Will slaymark on 13/05/13
― Let’s all go on an unban safari, we might see some ilxor migrants (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 January 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
heads up!
which celebrity death you the most? [Started by help computer (sleepingbag) in January 2016, last updated 1 minute ago by help computer (sleepingbag) on I Love Everything]
― sarahell, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
I know I'm setting myself up for joke answers that go over my head here, but is this a real, worthwhile artist I need to pay attention to? Or just like an ILX meme?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
the first 2 supergrass records are worth paying attention to i guess
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I haven't read 95% of this thread, but a ctrl-f seems to indicate that nobody has mentioned that it was started by a forum member whose current name is mocking the idea that a former member of Supergrass could have made a good LP this year - and nobody seems to mind. That would go down very differently on drowned in sound.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:01 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
XD
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
Gareth Toombes, Wallington:
"The first half was all ours, but they always seem to do ok against us, but we showed more intent in the second half, & the first goal made us more relaxed, they have been a bit of a bogey side,& their young keeper did well."
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/the-fans-went-home-happy-from-champion-hill-yester-813040.html
― smoothy doles it (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
can someone with an active twitter account tweet gazcoombes the link to his impressive third place result in the ILM poll
― smoothy doles it (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
last night i got 5 minutes into editing the album's Wikipedia page to reflect the result before i took a long hard look at my life
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 January 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
we wuz robbed
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Friday, 29 January 2016 09:57 (eight years ago) link
Stone Roses - Stone Roses: C/D? [Started by BrokenWitch04 in June 2004, last updated 2 minutes ago by MaresNest on I Love Music] 142 new answers
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
List of bands (x) whose songs have been sardonically dismissed as sounding 'like a (y) b-side' where band (y) songs have also been sardonically dismissed as sounding 'like a (x) b-side'
― nakhchivan, Friday, 13 May 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
So excited to announce the release of my new album World’s Strongest Man, coming out May 4th. Can’t wait for you all to hear it! https://t.co/m6yD3GxyXd pic.twitter.com/JnIl4guPBH— Gaz Coombes (@GazCoombes) January 10, 2018
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
At the Gaz stationGaz Coombes — also known as the Great Monkey Man from Oxford Town — first rattled the rock'n'roll cage as the frontman of '90s Brit pop band Supergrass.
music Updated: Jul 13, 2012 23:49 ISTIndrajit HazraIndrajit HazraHindustan Times
Here come the BombsGaz CoombesHot Fruit Recordings, CD Rs. 395; LP 995Rating: ***
Gaz Coombes — also known as the Great Monkey Man from Oxford Town — first rattled the rock'n'roll cage as the frontman of '90s Brit pop band Supergrass. Apart from their debut 1995 album, I Should Coco — with knock-out tracks like 'Alright' and 'Caught by the fuzz' — being the highest selling album for Parlophone since the Beatles' Please, Please Me, Supergrass was jampacked with the sheer chutzpah and loopy fun of the early Beatles. So it doesn't come as a total surprise that Coombes's solo record, Here Come the Bombs, sounds remarkably like a Beatles solo album, most particularly that of 1970s George Harrison.
The opening track, 'Bombs', is a lame-ish tickler. Perhaps Coombes is keen here to establish the fact that he doesn't want to be super-goofy any more. Thus the heavy strain of luscious strings that accompany the words, "I cannot see through the space and time/ but there's others over here/ you're not on your own."
But my worries about this being a Roger Waters tribute album are dusted away when I get to the dynamite 'Hot fruit'. It starts as a guitar scab that builds up and catches you like a fire. Coombes drives through a blizzard beat with "In the silence we move through the city of light/ I'll make my way through that look in your eyes/ our lives in slow motion like an endless dream/ I wonder where can the madman be". Great vocals, great guitar, great drums and fab bass — Coombes on all the aforementioned instruments.
The pumped up rock-pop takes on a similar manic form in 'Whore'. The heavy thuds of drum'n'bass have a prog rock signature. The melody isn't strong and after a point the song dissipates into general clashing sounds and chorus. Which isn't the case with the eerie, gaseous 'Sub-divider', a rhythm guitar strum rising above the fog. Coombes has a Billy Corgan whisper fitted to this track that exactly midway changes direction (and key) with surprisingly beautiful consequences. As he sings, "I found myself where only dogs survive/ I want to set this world alight", we share his vision of a beautiful apocalypse. Or at least a damn good mind trip lying on the couch.
In 'Universal cinema', we hear an injured big animal dragging itself along the ground with the riff of the Beatles' 'Come together' buried inside its DNA. 'Simulator' that follows is far more stimulating. Riding a fast-and-slow circuit in the song, Coombes has a half-shimmy hit-half-pumping chords rocker in his pocket.
The Spanish guitar strumming thing happens in 'White noise', replete with an MOR beat that flows rather aimlessly as Coombes tells someone that he's always tried to tell you "I've got problems/ that I can't work out". Try going easy on the reverb and lose the xylophone, perhaps?
It's 'Break the silence', which comes after the phat synth-soaked 'Fanfare', that has the bompity-bomp required to adapt itself on the dance floor once remixed. Is it just me or does Monkey Man here sound like Paul McCartney-meets-Bono?! Skip the filler ('Daydream on a street corner') and you're at the end with 'Sleeping giant', a lullaby you can put your pet monkey to sleep with.
Here Come the Bombs has a genuinely lingering sound that doesn't go away after a couple of listens — especially when you're listening to it on vinyl. But at the same time, there aren't any stand-out 'I can't get it out of my head' tracks either. But with Coombes swinging again — and this time unafraid to make music that's not always natter-fun — I'm keeping a look-out for when the Monkey Man's out on his next prowl.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
the second coombesing
― Tony Charlton, Grimsby (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
I'm hoping the album title is not a reference to the Scott Walker tune of the same name but instead to the vein-popping tendon-tearing steroid-gobbling competition and entertainment series, a favourite TV show of mine and, hopefully, Gaz.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
guitar... scab?
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
makes u think
https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/B4FD/production/_101133364_gaz976.jpg
Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes releases World's Strongest Man, his first new music since his Mercury Prize-nominated Matador, and it's addressing issues like masculinity, ego and anxiety attacks.At first glance, an album called The World's Strongest Man seems to suggest a compendium of tracks from The Rock's greatest hit movies, but rather than being a celebration of all things macho, Oxfordshire singer-songwriter Gaz Coombes has decided to subvert the meaning, instead using it as a jumping off point to address topics like ego, mental health and masculinity.The title was inspired by artist Grayson Perry's book The Descent of Man and subsequent Channel 4 series, which looked at how modern men are struggling physically and mentally under the traditional notions of manliness."I thought that book was amazing and illuminating and really important for men to read in terms of what seems to be an in-built way of being for some young men, to protect their territory and be the hard guy."It's just difficult, the world's closed up and shrunk and ultimately we're all just human beings. I try not to separate males and females, I know that it sounds idealistic but I do try to look at it like that."At first I liked it in the sense of, what if I was the world's strongest man at being a bit weird and bit rubbish at things? Being the greatest at being not complete, it's hard to explain but then I thought it was great, the irony of these ridiculous alpha males, who dominate and cause chaos for everyone."
At first glance, an album called The World's Strongest Man seems to suggest a compendium of tracks from The Rock's greatest hit movies, but rather than being a celebration of all things macho, Oxfordshire singer-songwriter Gaz Coombes has decided to subvert the meaning, instead using it as a jumping off point to address topics like ego, mental health and masculinity.
The title was inspired by artist Grayson Perry's book The Descent of Man and subsequent Channel 4 series, which looked at how modern men are struggling physically and mentally under the traditional notions of manliness.
"I thought that book was amazing and illuminating and really important for men to read in terms of what seems to be an in-built way of being for some young men, to protect their territory and be the hard guy.
"It's just difficult, the world's closed up and shrunk and ultimately we're all just human beings. I try not to separate males and females, I know that it sounds idealistic but I do try to look at it like that.
"At first I liked it in the sense of, what if I was the world's strongest man at being a bit weird and bit rubbish at things? Being the greatest at being not complete, it's hard to explain but then I thought it was great, the irony of these ridiculous alpha males, who dominate and cause chaos for everyone."
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
i know this might not be a popular view but for me he is our greatest living philosopher
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
The Male Gaz.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
A+
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
NOISE POP PRESENTSGaz Coombes (Solo)September 23rdSwedish American Hall • 7:00pm • 21+
― sarahell, Monday, 17 September 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/P065HwX.jpg
any socal ilxors want a super duper collectible, amoeba's got quite a swell one for you.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 21 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
maybe we can have stupid fun times by seeing how many gaz threads we can get atop SNA vs. Trump threads
― sarahell, Thursday, 26 September 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I missed this important project yesterday
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
brb, turning the car around for gaz coombes
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 03:05 (five months ago) link