Supergrass’ Danny Goffey tells us about his new album and book ‘Bryan Moone’s DiscoPunk’
nme.comDanny Goffey has announced details of his third solo album ‘Bryan Moone’s DiscoPunk’ and an accompanying limited edition book.
Check out the first single from the record ‘Everybody’s On Drugs’ below, alongside our chat with the Supergrass drummer and indie star.‘Bryan Moone’s DiscoPunk’ follows Goffey’s 2018 album ‘Schtick’ and was recorded after the end of the first coronavirus-enforced lockdown in 2020, with contributions from Goffey’s Supergrass bandmate Gaz Coombes, as well as Ed Harcourt and Louis Eliot.“Me and Simon [Byrt, producer], who I’ve worked with on my other two albums, we were really gagging for it,” Goffey said. “After that lockdown, you could start working quite quickly so we just cracked on with it really fast and then over the next year added a few more tracks here and there.”‘Everybody’s On Drugs’ introduces the record in a blast of punk energy, with the musician declaring over battering ram drums and staccato guitar chugs: “In the portaloos, the beer gardens and the bingo halls / Everybody’s on drugs / In the libraries, the Houses of Parliament and the places of worship / Everybody’s on drugs.”“I was with someone at the pub and there was someone across the street,” Goffey said of the inspiration behind the song. “Someone said, ‘It looks like he’s on drugs’ and then I remember someone else went: ‘Everybody’s on drugs’.
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