Supergrass to get PRS Award

PRS for Music today announces that one of the UK’s greatest and best loved indie bands, Supergrass, will receive a PRS for Music Heritage Award on 3 October at the site of the gig where they were signed. band members Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn, Danny Goffey and Rob Coombes will collect the award.

The Jericho Tavern in Oxford is renowned for its support of local live music and where Supergrass performed regularly during their early years.

Faithless are also being honoured, with a plaque being stuck to the wall of the Jazz Café in Camden, where the group played their first proper gig in 1996.