Personal Life
Goffey lived in Berkshire up until the age of 13, at which point his family relocated to the Oxfordshire village of Forest Hill, east of Oxford. He began to attend Wheatley Park School, but would more often be found bunking off in a field between his house and the school itself. When Goffey was 15, he met Gaz Coombes, two years his junior, on the playing fields of Wheatley School and asked him to form a band with him (The Jennifers). Not long after this he was expelled for compulsive smoking, insolence and regular non-attendance. In 1993, (after The Jennifers had separated) he and Gaz began to share a house on Cowley Road, and Goffey later managed to complete his A-levels at Henley College, despite never making it to any of the computer lectures he was supposed to attend. Danny was also working as a dinner lady at this time.
During the recording of In It For The Money, Goffey moved out of his and Gaz's house to live in London with his partner, and singer in the band Powder, Pearl Lowe. This introduced Danny to Pearl's social circle of celebrities such as Liam Gallagher and Kate Moss, and led to a surge of appearances of him in the tabloids. During this time tensions within Supergrass began to increase, with Goffey often stalling recording of the album in Sawmills Studio, Cornwall by returning to London to record with his second band, Lodger, of which Lowe was also a member. The lyrics for "Going Out" were also causing arguments, as Danny presumed that Gaz had written them about the column inches he and Pearl had been achieving.
After being together for over thirteen years, Goffey and Lowe finally married on 4 December 2008, in a small chapel at Babington House, near their home in Frome, Somerset, where they live with their two sons, Alfie Lennon (born 9 October 1996), Frankie (born 17 May 1999) and daughter Betty (born 2005). They then spent their honeymoon in Tobago, the Caribbean. Alfie and Frankie both attend Wells Cathedral School. Lowe was expecting another baby, due in autumn 2010. However, it was announced by Goffey on 19 May 2010 that Lowe had suffered a miscarriage.
Danny Goffey is the son of Chris Goffey, motoring journalist and ex-presenter of Top Gear, and his mother is an ex-Labour Party councillor. His brother is Nic Goffey, of the directing partnership Dom and Nic.
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