Danny Goffey
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Daniel Robert Goffey (born 7 February 1974 in London) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the popular English band, Supergrass.
Career
The Jennifers
Goffey started his music career with his band the Fallopian Tubes at primary school. At Wheatley Park School, Oxford he became drummer for the four-piece The Jennifers, which featured a sixteen year old Gaz Coombes on vocals. The Jennifers began building a reputation in the Oxford indie music scene and released one single in 1992 on Nude Records before they disbanded.
Allegedly, before the split, Goffey and Coombes had agreed to continue to work together in the future.
Supergrass
In 1993 Coombes introduced Goffey to his co-worker Mick Quinn and they started playing together. Shortly after Theodore Supergrass, later just Supergrass, were formed. The band enjoyed great success with their up-beat and quirky songs, particularly during the height of Britpop in the mid-1990s.
Danny's brother Nic Goffey has directed most of Supergrass' music videos, along with his friend Dom. They have joked on the Supergrass Is 10 DVD about nearly killing the band on several occasions whilst filming music videos.
Other projects
Goffey has embarked on a solo project called "Van Goffey" which saw tracks being released via "MySpace" in August 2006, the first three being "Crack House Blues", "I Feel so Gaye" and "Natalie Loves the F". He is also drummer on the charity football song Born In England by a collective of musicians called Twisted X.which charted at number 8 in the UK Charts in 2004.
In 2004 he drummed on the charity single "Band Aid 20".
In 2007 and 2008, while bandmate Mick Quinn was suffering from broken heel and vertebrae, Danny and Gaz were promoting band's songs from their sixth studio album Diamond Hoo Ha.
Personal life
In 2005, Goffey became targeted by the tabloid newspapers due to a sex scandal involving actor Jude Law, when it emerged that Goffey and long time girlfriend, Pearl Lowe had engaged in wife-swapping with Law and his wife, Sadie Frost.
Goffey married Lowe later that year (having proposed and been turned down the year before) and now lives in London with his wife and their two sons, Alfie and Frankie, and daughter Betty, as well as Daisy, Lowe's daughter by Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (now married to Gwen Stefani). The two had been in a relationship for ten years prior to the marriage.
He is the son of Chris Goffey, motoring journalist and ex-presenter of Top Gear. Supergrass later played on a 'Top Gear of the Pops' special programme for Comic Relief.