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Talking to The Linguist
In a departure from the usual music magazine feature, Gruff recently spoke with Miranda Moore of academic journal The Linguist about "Welsh lyrics, language rights and the joys of being bilingual." Issue #39,6 won't be on your local newsstand, so if you'd like to read the interview, seek it out at a university library. ~ 31 December, thanks to Rob
Do or Die Wins LEAF Award
 The London Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF) has presented its 2000 award for music video to Super Furry Animals' Do or Die. The video was produced by Clear, with animation by Pete Fowler and Tony Lawrence. The award is reported in industry journals Digit and Animation Magazine. Watch the Do or Die video online on DotMusic. ~ 21 December
Superfurry.com in the News
Visit PC Format Magazine for an article on superfurry.com and Pete Fowler's Fowlerism.net. ~ 30 December
Nythod Cacwn on BBC Session in Wales
Listen to an acoustic version of Nythod Cacwn from BBC Radio 1 Session in Wales, Best of 2000. The track is available for a limited time. ~ 29 December
Camgymeriad Gwych / Beautiful Mistake Premieres in Cardiff
The film Beautiful Mistake / Camgymeriad Gwych premieres in Cardiff at the International Film Festival Wales:
Camgymeriad Gwych / Beautiful Mistake
UK; Director/Cyfarwyddwr: Marc Evans. Starring/Gyda: John Cale, James Dean Bradfield, Catatonia, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Super Furry Animals and a host of others. 75 mins/mun.
Marc Evans (House of America) sy'n darparu gwledd gerddorol yn y ffilm ddogfen syfrdanol yma sy'n agor gwyl 2000. Mae'n dilyn naw diwrnod o gydweithrediad cerddorol rhwng yr athrylith cerddorol Cale a rhai o enwogion cerddorol Cymreig. Marc Evans y Cyfarwyddwr bydd yn cyflwyno'r dangosiad.
Marc Evans (House of America) provides a musical feast in this stunningly shot documentary, which opens the 2000 festival. It charts nine days of musical collaborations between musical doyen Cale and the some of greats of welsh musical talent. Director Marc Evans will introduce the screening.
UCI (English Premiere) : 29 November
UCI (Second Screening) : 7 November
Chapter 1 (Cymraeg/Welsh Premiere) : 4 December
For further information contact IFFW, Telephone: +44 (0) 29 20406220
John Cale is a Welsh-born member of the influential New York-based band, Velvet Underground. Listen to audio interviews with Cale and director Marc Evans on BBC Radio 1 Session: Wales. ~ 6 November
4 November : Mentasm 2 in London
Pete Fowler invites you to:
MENTASM 2
ARE YOU READY FOR ANOTHER MENTASM?
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT A MASS BRAIN WOBBLE
WILL BE HELD ON
SATURDAY 4TH
NOVEMBER
AT UNIT A
25 BELFAST ROAD
STOKE NEWINGTON
LONDON
(NEAR STOKE NEWINGTON OVERLAND STATION)
DJING AND VISUALITIES BY
TOM BARWICK
PETE FOWLER
ROB RAMSDEN
CHRIS RONCO
MARC
PARIS HAIR(REPLICA)
THE ACTION STARTS AT 11PM AND GOES ON LATE BABY
DONT LET THE CHILDREN OF YOUR MIND
BECOME THE ORPHANS OF YOUR SOUL
Visit Pete's website, Fowlerism. There's limited edition T-shirt and CD packs now on offer in the shop, to be followed soon by monsterised clocks. You can buy the new Fowlerised game Corx at many shops in the UK. And look for new Mwng T-shirts available soon in the SFA Shop. ~ 4 November
Liverpool Sound Collage : US Release
 Capitol Records releases Liverpool Sound Collage in the US on September 26. The album is a collaboration between Paul McCartney, Super Furry Animals and Youth. As previously reported here, the music was created for the About Collage exhibition at the Tate Liverpool curated by Peter Blake. Blake is the collage artist who created the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. McCartney gave Super Furry Animals never-used tracks, studio conversations, and ambient street noises collected during the Beatles recording sessions in the Sixties. SFA remixed these to create the sound collages, Free Now and Peter Blake 2000.
Cian Ciar�n spoke with BBC Radio 1 Session: Wales about the project. Visit the Liverpool Sound Collage website for more information and to hear music clips.
Stories about Liverpool Sound Collage appear in media worldwide, including:
BBC On-line | Billboard | CNN | DotMusic | NME | People | Q Magazine |
Rolling Stone |
SonicNet |
TotalWales |
Wall of Sound
Release details:
Artist: Paul McCartney
Title: Liverpool Sound Collage
US Label: Capitol
Catalogue: cdp 7243 5 28817 2 7
ASIN: B00004WMZ0
Release Date: September 26
~ 23 September
Newyddion - EPA
Mae'r Super Furry Animals a Webmaster Pie yn datblygu saflewe Cymraeg, EPA, fydd ar agor yn fuan. Siaradodd Gruff Rhys ag Adam Walton am gynlluniau ar gyfer y saflewe ar y sioe radio Musical Mystery Tour:
"Fyddwn ni hefyd yn cychwyn saflewe Cymraeg mewn dull cylchgrawn y gellid printio allan, achos 'mod i braid byth yn darllen cyhoeddiadau Cymraeg, 'sti, a 'da ni isho gwneud rhywbeth sy'n werth ei ddarllen. Gallen ni wneud saflewe dwyieithog, ond mae'r Cymry Cymraeg yn siarad Saesneg eniw�! So efallai nawn ni gychgrawn da 'left-field' yn y Gymraeg." [EPA]
Efo rhyddhad Mwng, cafodd Gruff a Huw Bunford sgwrs ar y w� yn y Gymraeg am y tro cyntaf ar saflewe'r BBC, Clecs Cymru.
Er fod o ddim wedi cael ei newid yn ddiweddar, mae gan y saflewe Something 4 The Weekend lawer o wybodaeth am y Super Furry Animals yn y Gymraeg ac yn Saesneg.
Am y newyddion diweddaraf am gerddoriaeth Cymreig, ymwelwch � BBC Radio Cymru - Gang Bangor.
Mae Debs Prowse, cyd-awdures y stori yma, yn olygydd y cylchgrawn Dwyieithog am gerddoriaeth Cymreig, Welsh Bands Weekly. Roedd rhifyn 8 yn cynnwys cyfweliad ecsclwsif "in-depth", tri tudalen, efo baswr Guto Pryce. Mae'r cyfweliad, a chyfweliad cynt efo Gruff, ar gael (yn Saesneg yn unig) drwy e-bost o [Welsh Bands Weekly]. [SFA Interview].
Mae croeso i negesoedd pob iaith yn Rhestr Internet Y Super Furry Animals. Mae ffans y band wedi ffurfio grwp e-bostio ar gyfer pobol sy'n siarad Cymraeg yn rhugl a'r rhai yna sydd yn dysgu, Clwb Malu Cachu.
Os ydych yn gwybod unrhyw safleoedd eraill ar y w� o ddiddordeb i ffans Cymraeg eu hiaith y Super Furry Animals, pl�s ysgrifennwch atom ni. Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi! ~ 4 September, by Debs Prowse Williams and K. A. Hope
Fowlerism
Cover artist Pete Fowler has put his advanced research of both toys and wine to good use, creating artwork for a new game, Corx.
Pete has been involved in toy design before, creating a custom Game Boy that was auctioned for charity. Last July, he exhibited his work at the More Monsters gallery show in Cardiff. And at Christmastime, he brought his unique millennium vision to the windows of Selfridges department store in London. Pete has been profiled in several publications including The Face and Level, and the websites The Knowledge and Virtual Cardiff (Interviews/1999 & Reviews/Hybrids Exhibition).
Visit Pete's website, Fowlerism, and make your own monsters and furry animals. You can get your own Fowlerised SFA designs from the SFA Shop. ~ 1 September
Summer 2000
 This summer, Super Furry Animals released Mwng, then set sail for a tour of North America. The band spent July in the forests of upstate New York surrounded by woodland creatures, continuing work on the next album. Escaping certain fate as bear food, SFA went around the globe to play Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. From a ski-slope to an Irish racetrack, next stop was the Witnness Festival, held outside Dublin. Read a review on DotMusic and visit their photo gallery. NME join Gruff, Bunf and Guto for a video interview.
Super Furry Animals have had some interesting opening acts, but nothing like the patriotic anthems of The Last Night of the Proms at the Ross-On-Wye International Festival in August. Then the last blast of summer--August bank holiday weekend. On Friday, SFA headlined the Radio 1 Evening Session stage at Glasgow Green Festival in Scotland. BBC Radio 1 Session: Scotland has a backstage video interview with Gruff and photographs from the show. Saturday, it was south to Reading Festival. Thousands brave the pounding rains, which curiously stop just before SFA take the stage. The set is webcast by Mean Fiddler. (Visit the site for an archived interview.) Sunday, the bill moved to Leeds. Visit Virtual Festivals for reviews and photos from the weekend. ~ 1 September
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