Danny Goffey

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Daniel Goffey (born Daniel Robert Goffey on February 7, 1974) is the drummer for popular English group Supergrass.

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.

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.

In 2005, Goffey became targeted by the tabloid newspapers due to a sex scandal involving actor Jude Law when it emerged that Goffey and longtime girlfriend, Pearl Lowe had engaged in wife-swapping with Law and his wife, Sadie Frost.

Goffey married Pearl later that year (having proposed and been knocked back the year before) and now lives in London with Pearl and their two sons, Alfie and Frankie, 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.

Danny has now 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"