They rode the Britpop years with talent and dignity & carried on making good records in its wake. A fine band.

the announcement seems nicely mellow and free of rancour. Perhaps after this long they've just reached the end of their productive time together.

May have to play some on the way home tonight...

I remember listening to them talk on a Word podcast and warming to them by the fact that they seemed to be in the game principally for the music itself. I think that's rarer than it should be in the music business.

alright.

They will be missed.

at the Garage a month or so ago and the full 'Grass appeared at the end for Fuzz and Lenny.

Great blokes, great band, great times

and raise a glass of Brakspear in memoriam. I love that album and it's just the kind of sunny evening that they were always a perfect soundtrack to.

Sorry to see them go.

Off to dig out the CDs for a reminder of their greatness - especially Richard III

But every time I did, I remembered just how much I enjoyed them.

They were a joy to watch supporting the Arctic Monkeys in Manchester a few years ago (when they almost came across as 'elder statesmen' of the scene!) and Hot Rats brought a silly grin to my face when they turned up at Glastonbury last year.

A fine band, and one hopes they continue to produce fine music in whatever guise(s) they adopt.

I'm not surprised; they seemed to be fragmenting into a different band every year, and seemed to have been sadly left out in the cold across the last few albums.

Thought the 'Road to Rouen' album was really good. The single 'St Petersburg' being a fine example of that great melancholic edge their best stuff had ('Moving' being the pinnacle). Perhaps now Gaz Coombes will be fired up to do a blinding solo album.

I never really went to play them, but every time they came up on shuffle, I would play the whole album. In It For The Money is a genuine classic album. So many hooks, so many hooks.....

Place your bets now for when the reunion tour will take place.

2014 I reckon.

I'll miss 'em. For me, Britpop was never about Blur and Oasis; it was Pulp and Supergrass. Sounded great live, rocking songs, cool vocals, fun videos. Underrated.

I've been listening to their debut album a lot recently - reminds me of being 15 and enjoying the good summer of '95. A lot of the music from that era hasn't stood up too well, but I still think I Should Coco is brilliant - great melodies and a real energy, and not a duff tune on it; it's one of the few albums I still recommend to people.

If they'd emerged in, say, 2005, they'd have been huge. As it was, there were a few other bands muddling the airwaves in the mid-90s.

They we(a)re a great festival band - saw them supporting Neil Young at the Hop Farm a couple of years ago and they put in a good shift. I got the impression that a sizable proportion of the crowd were surprised at how many of their songs they knew and, more importantly, liked (although probably not enough to buy their albums)...

one of the few bands of the last 20 years whose releases are automatically purchased. They'll be one of those bands who will have a repackaged greatest hits album that will fly off the shelves when the masses realise how many tracks they know by them.

I always thought of them as The Small Faces of the Britpop era, the ones who were seemingly in it for a laugh with a whiff of end-of-pier novelty value about them but were steadily and readily making classic songs behind the veil of sideboards, toothsome grins and gurning faces.

This is the track that made me think they were more than a flash in the pan:

and their split reminds of how I felt when Robbie Fowler was transferred to Leeds Utd. (i.e. gutted, and the feeling that part of my childhood has been removed).

It's a shame they're done, though I have to admit I'm probably one of a number of people who intended-to-but-didn't-get-around-to purchasing their last record. They've been consistently good and were fantastic live, I'm going to try and get tickets for one of the "farewell" dates.

Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if it's a split with their bass player Mick Quinn. He had a bad back injury a few years ago and since then Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey have done a few projects without him, including an album as The Hot Rats. According to XFM, Coombes and Goffey are working together on a live staging of The Virgin Suicides soundtrack with Air next.

Here's one of my favourites:

Didn't like them much at first, but as they released more, they grew on me loads. Here's my fave:

Lest we forget - drummer Danny's dad is Chris Goffey off old Top Gear too:

between not making an album for ages and "breaking up". Has there been queues of people outside number 10 petitioning the PM for news of Supergrass. Nice enough band and that but hardly news.

bring joy and good old fashioned toe tapping tunes without the meerest hint of misery or gloom and that is why people like them. They were never brash or contoversial enough to make headlines but as has been said here already you just don't realise how many Supergrass tunes you know until you see them live.

Great pop sensibility, wonderful ear for a tune and, by all accounts, decent unassuming fellows. I hope they read this thread and see that there's a lot of love in the room for them.

If anyone is after tickets to the farewell tour, here is the pre-sale link:

http://supergrasstickets.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html

On general sale from Friday, I reckon they'll sell out.