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13 December : Gruff Rhys ar C2
From BBC Cymru C2:
"Ar ddiwedd Ionawr 2005, bydd Gruff Rhys o'r Super Furry Animals yn rhyddhau albym fel artist unigol ac ar nos Lun Rhagfyr 13eg, bydd Huw Stephens yn chware dau drac ohono ar ei raglen ar C2 ar Radio Cymru. Dyma fydd y rhaglen gyntaf yn y byd i chwarae'r caneuon yma.

Enw'r albym yw Yr Atal Genhedlaeth a'r sengl cynta oddi arni fydd sengl 7 modfedd dwy ochr B [double B side]. Y ddwy g�n ar y sengl fydd Ni yw y Byd a Gwn mi Wn a dyma'r caneuon gewch chi glywed gynta' ar raglen Huw Stephens am 10pm, nos Lun.

Ma'r sengl yn cael ei ryddhau ar Ionawr 17 gyda'r albym ar Ionawr 24 ~ y ddau ar label Placid Casual. Gafodd yr albym, sy'n cynnwys 11 trac newydd, ei recordio gan Gorwel Owen yn Stwdios Ofn yn ystod yr haf eleni. Bydd Gruff hefyd yn mynd ar daith yn y flwyddyn newydd i hyrwyddo Yr Atal Genhedlaeth.

Felly os y'ch chi am fod ymhlith y cynta yn y byd i glywed caneuon newydd Gruff Rhys g'newch yn siwr eich bod yn gwrando ar Huw Stephens ar C2, Radio Cymru, Nos Lun 13eg o Ragfyr rhwng 10pm ac 11pm."
[C2, 13 December from 10-11PM GMT/5-6PM EST]

Translation by Rhys:
"At the end of January 2005, Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals will release his first album as a solo artist; and on the 13th of December Huw Stephens will play 2 tracks from the album on his C2 show on BBC Radio Cymru. This will be the first show in the world to play these songs.

The album is called Yr Atal Genhedlaeth and the first single from the album will be a 7inch double b side. The two songs on the single are: Ni yw y Byd and Gwn mi Wn; and these are the songs that will be played on the Huw Stephens show at 10pm on Monday night.

The single is to be released on the 17th of January followed by the album on the 24th, both on the Placid Casual label. The album (which includes 11 tracks) was recorded by Gorwel Owen at his Ofn Stiwdio during the summer. Gruff will go on tour in the new year to promote the album.

Therefore if you would like to be amongst the first to hear the new material, make sure that you are listening to Huw Stephens on C2, BBC Radio Cymru, Monday 13th of December between 10 and 11pm."

News of the US release appears on MTV.com and Billboard. Of the record, on which he plays all the instruments except trumpet and banjo, Gruff Rhys says, "All the tracks are fairly new, but often they came from ideas that are quite old."
~ diolch Rhys, Rhagfyr 9fed

Gruff Goes Solo
Gruff Rhys will release a solo album entitled Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (The Stuttering Generation) on SFA's label Placid Casual on 24 January 2005. The album will have eleven songs, is 29 minutes long, and was recorded with Gorwel Owen at Stiwdio Ofn during 2003-4.

Pre-order Gruff Rhys' Yr Atal Genhedlaeth from amazon.co.uk

Update: Gruff Rhys is now listed on the Rough Trade America website. According to MTV, the album will be released 8 March.

Update: Additional details and quotes from Gruff are on NME.com. Complete tracklisting with rough translations:
Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (The Stuttering Generation)
Gwn Mi Wn (Yes I Know)
Epynt (a mountain in mid-Wales)
Rhagluniaeth Ysgafn (May My Destiny Be Light)
Pwidin Wy 1 (Egg Pudding 1)
Pwidin Wy 2 (Egg Pudding 2)
Y Gwybodusion (Experts)
Caerffosiaeth (Sewage City)
Ambell Waith (Remembering)
Ni Yw Y Byd (We Are The World)
Chwarea'n Troi'n Chwerw (When Play Turns Sour) [cover]

Update: from the Placid Casual press release from Hall Or Nothing:

Gruff Rhys, of Super Furry Animals, releases his first solo album Yr Atal Genhedlaeth on 24 January 2005 on the band's own label Placid Casual. It was recorded between summer 2003 and spring 2004 at Stiwdio Ofn in Wales with Gorwel Owen who has worked on many of the Super Furry Animals albums including Radiator and Mwng. Gruff is planning a short tour of Wales to accompany its release.

Gruff has said this about Yr Atal Genhedlaeth.

"Yr Atal Genhedlaeth came together quite accidentally. I didn't initially plan to make a record; I usually go to Gorwel Owen's house in North Wales once a year for a couple of days partly for social reasons and partly to put down demos in his studio. I'll normally get about twenty songs out of my system.

"I went there in the summer of 2003 and put about twenty songs down, and it became apparent that about five of them sounded finished. They were pretty simple but they didn't need working on, didn't need to be developed further: they sounded pretty immediate as they were. We're in a luxurious position as a band (Super Furry Animals) where we always have far too many songs anyway. I thought it would be interesting to record a whole album in the same vein as these songs, so between August 2003 and February 2004 I got another five tracks together. Overall it took about a week to record and five days to mix.

"All the tracks are fairly new, but often they came from ideas that are quite old. Pwdin Wy 1 and Pwdin Wy 2, which are connected, they're ten years old, and I've never had the chance to record them. I've been trying to write Gwn Mi Wn for about ten years too, but I could never work out how to record it. The general idea for the whole record was based around this song: to get music down to its elemental state where possible, just using the rhythm and the vocal melody.

Gruff plays everything on the record except for the trumpet on Ambell Waith(by Edwin Humphries) and banjo by Gorwel Owen on Chwarae'n Troi'n Chwerw, which is a cover version of a Welsh language standard. "It's the equivalent of perhaps a countryfied China In Your Hands by T'Pau. It's a song by Caryl Parry-Jones, who is an institution of Welsh songwriting. She concentrated on mostly disco and country and western power ballads. That track haunted me through my childhood. Recording it was very cathartic!"

"Since we did Mwng five years ago I've been collecting ideas for lyrics, and it took this long to get together. I don't know if it's as immediately melodic, but it's a very different record obviously. Rhagluniaeth Ysgafn for example is heavily dependent on the lyrics ~ it's like Heaven's Gate: a list of sins. Yr Atal Genhedlaeth is very lyrically heavy ~ the sleeve is all text as well ~ but I think there are some songs that are melodic enough to grasp, even if you haven't got a clue what I'm going on about.

"Yr Atal Genhedlaeth is about various characters in the stuttering generation, a fictional town, two fictional MC's, Pwdin Wy, fictional pundits, all the sins of the age. There's not much advice for the stuttering generation, more a series of observations.

"And I'm considering splitting up after this record. I'm not sure exactly where, horizontally, or vertically."

スーパー・ファーリー・アニマルズのフロント・マン、グリフ ・リースがついにソロ・ デビュー！
According to the Toy's Factory website, the album will see a release in Japan on 22 December. From their website [Japanese text follows]:
"もはや地元ウェールズのみならず、イギリスを代表するロック・バンドにまで成長したスーパー・ファーリー・アニマルズ。ファースト・アルバム『ファジー･ロジック』(96年)はUKアルバム・チャート23位、セカンド・アルバム『ラジェイター』(97年)はUKアルバム・チャート8位、サード・アルバム『ゲリラ』(99年)はUKアルバム・チャート10位、フォース・アルバム『ムーング』(00年)はUKアルバム・チャート11位、フィフス・アルバム『リングス・アラウンド・ザ・ワールド』(01年)はUKアルバム・チャート3位、そしてシックスス・アルバム『ファントム・パワー』(03年)はUKアルバム・チャート4位、と今まで発売されたアルバムは全て大ヒットを記録してる。そんなスーパー・ファーリー・アニマルズの中心人物、グリフ・リースのソロ・アルバムは、バンドの片腕的な存在のプロデューサー／エンジニア Gorwel Owenにより2004年の春から夏にかけてレコーディングされた。クリエイション閉鎖後、自分達のレーベル"Placid Casual"からリリースされたスーパー・ファーリー・アニマルズの最高傑作とも評されるフォース・アルバム『ムーング』同様、歌詞は全曲ウェールズ語である "
~ 27 November, 3 December

Recording
SFA are finishing work on their forthcoming album in Cardiff, Wales and Brazil. ~ thanks to Gaz

Links
Some photos from Royal Festival Hall are posted on Underexposed.

SFA & GLC vs. Others
SFA together with GLC at Leeds has been nominated as Best Live Moment of the Summer in the new UK Festival Awards 2004. Online voting opens 15 November.

SFA vs. GLC, LP, KAFC
SFA are up against Goldie Lookin' Chain, Lostprophets and Kentucky AFC for Best Welsh Band in the Pop Factory Awards, to be held 11 December, as announced in the Western Mail. [Because all bands are constructed to do battle for their nation's pride, while getting free drinks.]

Furry Friends
The Herald has a feature on Rhys Ifans, who's latest film is Enduring Love. There's another interview available on The Scotsman.

Cerys Matthews' album Cock-a-hoop gets a US release on 26 October. There seems to be very little press, but there's a review on Rolling Stone. Cerys has played shows recently in Nashville and New York.

Brave Captain is touring the UK in November and has a live album available from his online shop.

Broken Leaf, known previously as Telf*n Monkey, and always as Rhodri Viney, has posted some home recordings on his new website. He is also preforming as a member of Vito.

Slacyr Records releases the new album from MC Mabon, Kerrdd Dant on 29 November. Visit the label website to order the album and download a free non-album MP3 track.

The tribute to John Peel from BBC Radio 1 will be 16 December.

7 December : Pete Fowler DJing
Artist Pete Fowler will be DJing in London at the Borderline on 7 December, in support of The Magic Numbers. Their video can be seen on NME.com. Look for the Sounds Of Monsterism Island Vol 1 from Heavenly Records in early 05. ~ 21 November

2 November : Empyrean Releases Vinyl in US ~ Phantom Phorce & More
The new WishingTree imprint, Empyrean Records, is going to be releasing the entire Super Furry Animals catalog on vinyl. All re-issues will include bonus material and will be pressed on colored vinyl. The series kicks off with a limited edition vinyl release of Phantom Phorce. It's available now for purchase from their website, www.wishingtreerecords.com. It comes in a gatefold package and is pressed on high quality gold colored vinyl. It's available now only from the website, and will be in US stores on 2 November. The rest of the LPs will come out in early 2005. WishingTree Records Group released the Amos House Volume III charity compilation, which features Foxy Music (mastered off our copy).

Wellies for Charity
You can bid on a pair of wellies signed by SFA and other musicians at the Reading Festival 2004 in a benefit auction for Children in Need. Details and photographs are on BBC Berkshire, and bidding is open until 24 November. Update: The winning bid was �155.

News News
The computer demons have let us get this news page back online. We've been offered space by the wonderful folks hosting superfurry.org. We plan to move the website in the next few weeks, so bookmark our referring link: superfurrylogic.com. Thanks again for visiting, and all your kind words about the website. ~ 20 November

Hacked
The phantom-power.com message board has been hacked, and replaced by graphic images of war. [It was fixed within a day.] As always, you are welcome to join the List. ~ thanks to Corach

Website news & more
Ever more reviews now posted in press : reviews. If you'd like to support superfurrylogic.com, write for a �3 gift certificate for use with our shopping links. Check out Kitten Magazine and Macaroni Records from Japan.

Gruff joined the GLC onstage in London, as reported in NME.

26 October : SFA on the O.C.
SFA's Hello Sunshine will appear on The O.C.: Mix 2, a compilation of music featured on the US television show, due out in the US on Warner Bros. Records on 26 October. See Billboard for the complete track listing. The San Jose Mercury News writes: "For the past 14 years, every time it seems this mournful but shimmery Welsh group is about to jump into the mainstream, it does something like record an album in its native tongue or go off on a political diatribe." Hmm, but those things have resulted in the most US sales...~ 16 September

More Press
According to Mojo song titles on the forthcoming album, due in Spring 05, may include: Laser Beam, The Horn, Colonise The Moon, and Where's My Fucking Shoes?. Some quotes about the album: "a bit soundtracky, a bit 1980s cop show" "Knight-Rider at the point of cosmic rapture" "like being sucked into space" "most orchestral record we've ever done" "cosmic funk track about cleansing the world with our super laser beams" "very simple pop songs with some optical illusions for the ears. And a couple of lobsters thrown in."

Speaking to US magazine Magnet, Gruff says of the album now in the works, "Our friends describe it as Steely Dan on crack." Of working in Catalonia, Spain, he says, "Everything seemed a little bit brighter there, and it rubbed off on the music." Regarding music and messages, he notes, "In an age where the Dixie Chicks are politicized, it takes the pressure off us." About the overall sound he remarked, "We've had incredible fun experimenting with sounds, but we are still looking to make a record that sounds like a band playing a room together. We might get there this time."

See Press for more press links, including reviews and interviews. See About or write if you have questions about superfurrylogic.com.

Late word: Mook posted that MTV2 UK was to show SFA recorded live in Cardiff on 16 October at 11:30PM. It's already aired, but perhaps it will be repeated. ~ thanks to LastHexAudio, Mook

Wood Panelling & Magnetism
Speaking to Metro, Gruff said, "When I was a kid I listened to a lot of Welsh language pop, people like Meic Stevens and then gradually, as I was getting older, my brother and sister would bring back other records to the house like Bob Marley and Black Sabbath. In terms of songwriting, Lou Reed was a big influence. I was completely obsessed by the Velvet Underground when I was a teenager and because John Cale was a Welsh speaker they were considered all right to like, you know? I'm not particularly well read but I like reading. I've just bought a few books in a second hand shop. I've got one on psycho electronics and another one on wood panelling. I might take it up but it's going to be difficult on a tour bus. We've also been watching a lot of Japanese films recently, like Tetsuo. That film, and it's sequel Tetsuo II ~ Body Hammer, has inspired a few songs. It's a fable about a man who becomes magnetic and eventually the whole worls starts sticking to him. We love to celebrate technology as well. At the moment we're really pissed off with Jean Michel Jarre because he's going around the world claiming that he's done the first 5.1 Surround Sound DVD and we've made two already! He hasn't even made the third! We're gonna have a laser battle with him to the death at the pyramids." ~ thanks to Gaz

10 November : Songbook Released by Sony Music Japan
Sony Music Japan release Songbook on 10 November. Visit Fusion Musique : London for a Japanese-language report with photographs from Lightning Fryday.

New SFA Album Coming
SFA are continuing work on their new album, expected in early 2005. Speaking to South Wales Echo, Bunf said, "There's 14 songs on there but it's difficult to give a definitive description. We were all chipping in with our own material. Cian has written three of the songs, Daf has written two, I've got a couple of them and Gruff has the rest. It's really quite a mixed bag but it still has this continuity...I think it is pretty radical, especially in terms of lyrics...It's a very honest, direct and very loving album."

Gruff told icWales, "The next album will be generally more reflective, with more personal views. But it differs from song to song." Guto said, "For some reason it does sound more like a Super Furry Animals album, than any of the others we have done."

People's Festival Hall
There are video clips from Electric Fryday available to download from the message board on superfurry.com (or direct links: 1, 2, 3).

#229!
Thank you so much for your votes! We're #229 in the DMA: Digital Music Awards People's Choice Awards for Best Music Website. Cheers!

Without John Peel...
Sad, sad news...from the BBC. SFA had just played an amazing live set for Peel on 6 October. Speaking to BBC Online, Gruff Rhys said the band was in "shock." "He was very inclusive of all kinds of music, very open-minded, and introduced a lot of diverse music to the public. He championed Welsh language music and for years was the only DJ on national radio who was willing to embrace it."

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Gruff said, "I suppose the highlight for us was doing a session in his house, meeting his family and playing in his front room. He was enthusiastic about all the new records he'd had in and picked out an obscure death metal record for us to listen to. We'd just seen him a few weeks back so it was a really big shock. He's been such a champion of culturally diverse music ~ we were just saying nobody thought he was ever going to die ~ we thought he'd be around forever."

Leave your own messages on BBC Radio 1 website. On air Thursday, Bethan and Huw will have tributes from Welsh bands. They point to a thread on favorite quotes on the I Love Music message board. Peelie is wearing his well-worn Mwng shirt in the photo on BBC News.

US Release?
Beggars Banquet/XL hasn't said either way yet on a North American release for Songbook. If you order the Songbook UK DVD, be aware that it is Region 2 encoded and in the PAL video format, not the Region 1/NTSC format used in the US. It will work on many computer-based DVD players, but only some TV-based players. The Japanese release will be NTSC format, but is Region 2 encoded. Confused? Frustrated? Yeah, me too. [Now scheduled for early 2005.]

Ochre 10
Congrats to Ochre Records on the celebration of their 10th birthday. They've been good friends of the Furries List for years. The Ochre 10 Festival will be at the Gloucester Guildhall on Saturday, 30 October. Acid Mothers Temple from Japan are headlining, with Thighpaulsandra, Glide (Will Sergeant/Bunnymen solo project) and Applecraft.

Trashcan Sinatras UK Dates
UK release of Trashcan Sinatra's Weightlifting is out now on Picnic Records and SpinArt Records. They'll be in session on Gideon Coe's show on BBC Radio 6 on 28 October 2004 at 10AM. Some tour dates:
27 October ~ London ~ The Spitz
4 November ~ Edinburgh ~ St. Brides Centre
5 November ~ Glasgow ~ Cottier Theatre
7 November ~ Aberdeen ~ The Lemon Tree

Protest
American magazine Under the Radar is featuring photographs of musicians with a protest theme. According to the LA Times, members of SFA posed with wax lips. The photos are up for auction on eBay, but not the Furries one, it seems. ~ thanks to Casey

25 October : Songbook Released by Sony Music Australia
Order from HMV Australia

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Sessions & Press
UK stations and times, except if otherwise noted:
2 October : Radio 2 Jonathon Ross interview and session [10:00AM-01:00PM] ~ [archived ~ 21:24]
4 October : XFM ~ music : response [19:00-21:00] will be archived, read the Xfm article
5 October : BBC 6music ~ Gideon Coe [10:00AM-1:00PM] ~ [archived ~ 20:39 ~ Gruff & Bunf] (session was moved up from Friday to Tuesday)
6 October : Radio 1 John Peel Live from Maida Vale [11:00PM-1:00AM] [archived ~ 19:26]
8/9 October : BBC Four TV ~ American Sasquatch broadcast [1:55AM]
10 October : Virgin Radio ~ Razor Cuts [8:00-10:00PM] [to be archived?]
upcoming TBA : BBC Radio 1 ~ Breezeblock [1:00-3:00AM]

Planned print media (from songbooksfa.com):
Times Online (24 September), Maxim (27 September), Time Out (28 September), NME (28 September), What's On (29 September), Q Magazine (1 October), Rip 'n' Burn (2 October), Uncut (5 October), Mojo (15 October), Observer (15 October).

See Press for links interviews and live reviews, and press : reviews for word on Songbook, and Press: sessions for more audio and video online.

Guto's Playlist
Guto recently selected his favourite songs of all time for an iTunes playlist.
Love ~ Alone Again Or
The opening track from my favourite album of all time.
Orbital ~ Belfast
They took the techno scene of the early 90s to another level by playing live and making albums. They were always my highlight whenever they played Glastonbury.
Jimmy Cliff ~ The Harder They Come
I've great memories of this tune, it was played over the tannoy after the final whistle when Wales beat Italy in Cardiff last year.
Beach Boys ~ Feel Flows
From the Surf's Up LP, we listenened to this loads when we started the band.
Ennio Morricone ~ L'uomo Dell'Armonica
From the movie Once Upon a Time in the West, we used this as an intro tune for a while.
The Orb ~ Little Fluffy Clouds
A bit like Pink Floyd, but not as posh.
The Specials ~ Friday Night, Saturday Morning
A tune for binge drinkers everywhere.
The Damned ~ Neat Neat Neat
Still a damn fine live band.
Goldie Lookin Chain ~ Roller Disco
The pride of Newport, South Wales.
Junior Byles ~ Curly Locks
I'm a big fan of Lee Scratch Perry, this is one of my favourites from a huge back catalogue.
from songbooksfa.com

Various...
At long last, superfurry.com has something new. Beggars Banquet hasn't said either way yet on a US release for Songbook. We'll keep you posted. There's a new SFA group on MySpace, which is similar to Friendster ~ profiles and message boards. Check out our press : sessions page for something newly found. Guto and Gruff talk about all the singles on Songbook in The Western Mail. See Press for more links. Watch the TV ad for Songbook.

The Man charted at #16 and Songbook debuted at #18. The official album website wants to know your favorite furry animal: songbooksfa.com furry competition. Doll has photos from the recent shows on shesgotspies.co.uk, and Corach has a gallery as well.

As always, write if you have news, press, or your own reviews and photos. We can't make this stuff up!

Pondman
Gorwel and Fiona Owens' band Pondman are playing Conwy on Saturday, 23 October in the Civic Hall on Castle Street) from noon until 2PM. Also playing are John Lawrence, Alun Tan Lan, The Peaks, and Dan Amor. ~ thanks to Marc of Slacyr Records

21 October : DJ @ Zabrinski, Cardiff
~ thanks to Doll of shesgotspies.co.uk

27 September : The Man Don't Give A Fuck Live single
4 October : Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One plus DVD Video Collection & Road Documentary
From Hall Or Nothing:
"Super Furry Animals continue another year of questing musical activity with the release of their first singles compilation Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One on 4 October 2004. This album comprises 21 of the band's memorable single releases spanning their nine-year career to date. Songbook is preceded by the release of a 20 minute long live version of the SFA anthem The Man Don't Give A Fuck on 20 September, and a retrospective live spectacular entitled Lightning Fryday on 1 October.

SINGLE: The Man Don't Give A Fuck Live ~ 27 September 2004. Vinyl/CD. Sony Music.
This version of The Man Don't Give A Fuck was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo on the last night of the band's UK tour in Spring 2004 and is not included on Songbook.

ALBUM: Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One ~ 4 October 2004. Vinyl/CD/Ltd.CD/DVD Sony Music.
Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One comprises every single taken from SFA's six studio albums: Fuzzy Logic, Radiator, Guerrilla, Rings Around The World, Mwng and Phantom Power. Songbook also includes the original studio version of The Man Don't Give A Fuck, Ice Hockey Hair (never previously featured on an album) and Blerwytirhwng (taken from the band's debut pre-Creation EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysilio-gogogochynygofod (in space). Full track listing as follows:

Something For The Weekend (1996) ~ It's Not The End of the World (2002) ~ Northern Lites (1999)
Juxtapozed with U (2001) ~ Slow Life (2004) ~ Fire In My Heart (1999) ~ The Man Don't Give a Fuck (1996)
Herman Loves Pauline (1997) ~ Play It Cool (1997) ~ Ice Hockey Hair (1998) ~ Do or Die (2000)
Rings Around The World (2001) ~ God Show Me Magic (1996) ~ Ysbeidiau Heulog (2000) ~ Demons (1997)
Golden Retriever (2003) ~ International Language of Screaming (1997) ~ Hello Sunshine (2003)
Hometown Unicorn (1996) ~ If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You (1996) ~ Blerwytirhwng (1995)

Songbook DVD
Songbook will also be available as a DVD ~ featuring all of the band's videos as well as a previously unseen 40 minute on the road documentary about the SFA [American Sasquatch]. The limited audio version features exclusive artwork. Both The Man Don't Give A Fuck and Songbook are released on Sony Music UK.

Phantom Phorce US release Beggars Banquet will be releasing Phantom Phorce with the Slow Life EP in the US on 14 September. The blurb states, "this is a limited, numbered edition of 5,000 and includes a bonus disc of the Slow LifeEP." Read Beggars Group USA's press release, and see press : reviews. Explore the work of the Phantom Phorce remixers through these website and album links (links are to amazon.co.uk, who ship to the US easily, but many will also be available through amazon.com): Hello Sunshine Freiband Hello Sunshine Weevil Liberty Belle Mario Caldato Jr. Golden Retriever Killa Kella Sex, War & Robots Wauvenfold The Piccolo Snare Four Tet Venus & Serena Massimo Father Father Boom Bip Bleed Forever Brave Captain Out Of Control Zan Lyons Cityscape Skybaby Minotaur Shock Valet Parking Force Unknown Valet Parking Sean O'Hagan The Undefeated Llwybr Llaethog Slow Life Bench Sir Doufus Styles Elec. Legoland Dub

US

5 October : BBC Radio 1 ~ Breezeblock
Highlights from Gruff Rhys' set at Homefires Festival will be aired on BBC Radio 1 ~ Breezeblock, from 0100-0300 early on 5 October, and on online playback all week. This was postponned from the show on 28 September. ~ thanks to le garcon G.

Press Starts Here
Gigwise writes, "All the greats are on this, it makes Gigwise.com want to cry with happiness just looking at the track list - no really. From the steel drums of Northern Lights to the outrageous genius of The Man Don't Give A Fuck there is so much to love, to dance to, to reminisce over and to be puzzled about." Playlouder weren't as happy about Gruff's set at Homefires (hmmm). Many more links follow and in Press and press : reviews.

2 October ~ Super Furry Saturday ~ London
BFI presents Super Furry Saturday at NFT in London on 2 October, as part of RESFEST 2004
"Following on from the Royal Festival Hall's Lightning Friday, an event designed to celebrate the release of the forthcoming Super Furry Animals Songbook ~ a singles compilation to include the band's innovative music promo work. RESFEST welcomes the Super Furries to the NFT stage to take us on a journey through the evolution of the band's visual aspect. Come and talk to the band and see some of the wittiest and most beguiling music promos of recent times on one of London's biggest screens and in glorious surround sound."

For online ticketing, go to BFI tickets and select 2 October, and look for Super Furry Saturday. Tickets are �7.90/�6.00 students. NFT box office: 020 7928 3232. ~ 9 September

27 September : The Man Don't Give A Fuck Live single
1 October : Lightning Fryday ~ Royal Festival Hall, London
2 October : Super Furry Saturday ~ RESFEST ~ BFI at NFT, London
4 October : Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One plus DVD Video Collection & Road Documentary
From Hall Or Nothing:
"Super Furry Animals continue another year of questing musical activity with the release of their first singles compilation Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One on 4 October 2004. This album comprises 21 of the band's memorable single releases spanning their nine-year career to date. Songbook is preceded by the release of a 20 minute long live version of the SFA anthem The Man Don't Give A Fuck on 20 September, and a retrospective live spectacular entitled Lightning Fryday on 1 October.

SINGLE: The Man Don't Give A Fuck Live ~ 27 September 2004. Vinyl/CD. Sony Music.
This version of The Man Don't Give A Fuck was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo on the last night of the band's UK tour in Spring 2004 and is not included on Songbook.

ALBUM: Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One ~ 4 October 2004. Vinyl/CD/Ltd.CD/DVD Sony Music.
Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One comprises every single taken from SFA's six studio albums: Fuzzy Logic, Radiator, Guerrilla, Rings Around The World, Mwng and Phantom Power. Songbook also includes the original studio version of The Man Don't Give A Fuck, Ice Hockey Hair (never previously featured on an album) and Blerwytirhwng (taken from the band's debut pre-Creation EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysilio-gogogochynygofod (in space). Full track listing as follows:

Something For The Weekend (1996) ~ It's Not The End of the World (2002) ~ Northern Lites (1999)
Juxtapozed with U (2001) ~ Slow Life (2004) ~ Fire In My Heart (1999) ~ The Man Don't Give a Fuck (1996)
Herman Loves Pauline (1997) ~ Play It Cool (1997) ~ Ice Hockey Hair (1998) ~ Do or Die (2000)
Rings Around The World (2001) ~ God Show Me Magic (1996) ~ Ysbeidiau Heulog (2000) ~ Demons (1997)
Golden Retriever (2003) ~ International Language of Screaming (1997) ~ Hello Sunshine (2003)
Hometown Unicorn (1996) ~ If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You (1996) ~ Blerwytirhwng (1995)

Songbook DVD
Songbook will also be available as a DVD ~ featuring all of the band's videos as well as a previously unseen 40 minute on the road documentary about the SFA. The limited audio version features exclusive artwork. Both The Man Don't Give A Fuck and Songbook are released on Sony Music UK.

LIVE: Lightning Fryday. Royal Festival Hall. 1 October 2004.
Lightning Fryday, takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London on Friday 1 October. It will be one of SFA's most ambitious live events yet ~ capturing every facet of the band's rich touring history. Lightning Fryday will see the band take over the RFH for one evening with live performance, SFA activities and special guests in several rooms, extending beyond the RFH boundaries to nearby landmarks. Reappearances from some of the band's old acquaintances are rumoured (for more info watch this shape...).

Ticket prices are �25 and �22.50, on sale THURSDAY 5 AUGUST 9AM. Box Office number is 0870 160 2522 and web address www.rfh.org.uk/sfa.

Super Furry Animals have recently completed the first stages of recording of their seventh studio album, due for release in Spring 2005."

Pre-order Songbook ~ The Singles Volume One or Songbook ~ pop-up edition now so you have it on the release date, and help support this website.

Update: Fellow Yanks, Beggars Banquet has not said yes or no on a US release for Songbook. We'll keep you posted either way. ~ 2, 5 August, 21 September (adapted press release is not for republishing)

Update:
We've heard that Killa Kella will also appear. ~ thanks to Mat

From NME.com:
"The band have released full details of their sold-out Lightning Fryday event, which will take place on October 1 at London's Royal Festival Hall. It starts at 6.30pm, and SFA will play two sets across three rooms in the venue. The band will be joined by a supporting cast featuring Zabrinski, bravecaptain, Richard James from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Mugison. There will also be a chance for fans to confess all sins to Howard Marks in the Howard Marks Confessional Booth. Surprise guest DJs will appear, and there will be and visual performances and art installations by Pete Fowler and Mark James.

A few extra tickets will be released at 3pm on the day of the show. These can be reserved by calling the Box Office (0870 160 2522) at this time."

Also see Xfm.

Schedule from Royal Festival Hall, updated from Xfm:

Chelsfield Room
18.30 - 19.30 Brave Captain
19.30 - 20.30 Mugison

The Ballroom
19.00 - 19.15 Super Furry Animals (an acoustic 'welcome')
19.30 - 20.15 Richard James (of Gorky�s Zygotic Mynci)
21.15 - 21.35 Killa Kela (Human Beatbox TBC)
23.00 - 23.45 Zabrinski

Main Auditorium
20.30 - 21.15 Super Furry Animals
21.35 - 23.00 Super Furry Animals

The Foyer outside the Chesterfield Room

18:30 � 20:30 Howard Marks� Confession Booth (confessions to be relayed to the main auditorium as people are entering)

According to Xfm, additional tickets may be available from the box office (08703 800 400).

30 September : Cardiff Point
As detailed in NME.com, Super Furry Animals will play a special warm-up show at Cardiff Point Theatre on 30 September, prior to Lightning Fryday. Tickets will be available exclusively at Spillers Records in Cardiff, for �12, and go on sale at 9AM Friday, 24 September.

29 September : Tim Lovejoy And The Allstars ~ Sky One TV
SFA and GLC are scheduled to be guests on Tim Lovejoy And The Allstars, on Sky One TV, at 10PM on 29 September. ~ thanks to Mat and Gaz

18-19 September : Homefires ~ Gruff Rhys Solo
Adem and Eat Your Own Ears presents Homefires folk music festival at Conway Hall in London, 18-19 September. Musicians include Beth Orton and Bert Jansch, and Gruff Rhys of SFA will be one of the guest DJs.

Update: Gruff will now be performing a solo set on 18 September, due to Alan from Low having to cancel.

Gary reports that the set included: "I vomitted throughout your saxophone solo", Golden Retriever, Pan Ddaw'r Wawr, Cryndod Yn Dy Lais, Nythod Cacwn, Gathering Moss, Y Brawd Houdini. ~ thanks to Gary and James

See Also...
For sale: one balcony ticket to see Brian Wilson at Carnegie Hall, NY, on Wednesday, 13 October, cost $35. (Oops, it's the same day as the Love/Zombies show, going the next day now!). Write your confused webmaster.

Donate to help rehabilitate wildlife: The Bill Hicks Foundation

BBC Wales ~ Serb DJ joins debate on radio language policy

bravecaptain : New album, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace features the track Bethesda: "a genuine atmopheric moment where the beats give way to a stripped down perspective on the super furry animals' homecoming show last year."

Trashcan Sinatras return with a new album on SpinART in August and US tour in September & October. Play the Trashcan Sinatras e-card.

Songbook Website
The new www.songbooksfa.com website run by Sony UK is open. (Note: this site has the news I wrote for superfurry.com for several years, but I have no connection to the current official websites.)

The Man...video
Watch The Man Don't Give A Fuck video on Drowned in Sound or on NME.com. [It's also now on the album website.] Paid downloads are out there, for those so inclined [may be UK residents only, due to licensing issues]. The single is released 27 September on CD and special one-sided 12" single for one week only. It features a 20 minute live version recorded at Hammersmith Apollo on the last night of the band's UK tour in Spring 2004, and is not included on the forthcoming Songbook - The Singles Volume One. Badges will be given away at various stores...see www.songbooksfa.com.

2-9 October : Radio 2 in Liverpool
Super Furry Animals are to play a FREE gig in Liverpool in October, as part of the Radio 2 in Liverpool event. (The exact date for SFA is not yet announced as of this writing). Other musical acts include: Starsailor, Travis and Embrace, Amy Winehouse, Ed Harcourt, Beverley Knight, Beth Nielsen Chapham, Ian Broudie, Ian McNabb, Kings of Convenience and...wait for it...Donny Osmond.

FREE TICKETS: "All tickets are free and can be obtained by calling the Radio 2 ticket line on 08700 100 200. Lines are open from Monday 13 September, 7.00am-12.00midnight seven days a week. Calls are charged at the national rate."

Update: Word is just in that this is CANCELLED and will instead be a no-audience radio session. More details/confirmation later. ~ 9, 13 September, thanks to Huw R.

4 September : Electric Picnic ~ County Laois, Ireland
The Electric Picnic is now confirmed for Saturday, 4 September, at Stradbally Hall, County Laois, Ireland. The lineup is: Groove Armada, Super Furry Animals, Jurassic 5, Grandmaster Flash, Arrested Development, Lee "Scratch" Perry, David Kitt, Erol Alkan, Pump DJs, Soulwax and 2 Many DJs. The event will run from 3:00PM until midnight. Tickets are Euro 59.50 plus fees, from Ticketmaster. (There may be additional ticket outlets). According to the subscription only Irish magazine Hot Press, the festival promises to be more accessible and comfortable than the usual mud-fest, with posh catering.

Update: 2FM will be broadcasting from the festival. Also see Aiken Promotions. ~ 12 July, 31 August, thanks to Hooligan

1 September : Acid Casuals, Cardiff
Machine Meadow presents Acid Casuals at Moloko Mill Lane, Cardiff on Wednesday, 1 September. Support will be from Underpass and C++ and it's free entry. More details to be posted on the promoter's website.

Acid Casuals, Filthy Pitch/Code Novamute ~ 2CDs and MP3s compilation Boobytrap ~ A Step In The Left Direction compilation ~ Luciano acidcasuals.com Cian (SFA), Kevin Tame (Big Leaves), Llyr Evans (actor, Twin Town), Jon Calcio (Cafe Calcio), sometimes Kris Jenkins (Bench, SFA live percussion) techno collective, fashion, art, Capsule Gallery Novamute ~ video | BBC Music Wales

Phorce, again
From superfurry.com:
"ER GWYBODAETH (yn gyffredinnol) : bellach mae'r fersiwn arbennig a chyfyngedig o Phantom Phorce (pecyn dau-cd - yn cynnwys y sengl SLOW LIFE a MOTHERFOKKER (SFA + GLC)) nol yn y siopau....ni ddylsai fod unrhyw broblem cael gafael ar gopi ( tra peri'r stoc ).
(rhif catalog : PLC07CD / / dosbarthwyr : PINNACLE ).

INFORMATIONAL BURST : the special, limited editions of Phantom Phorce (the two-cd version featuring the single SLOW LIFE (which also carries MOTHERFOKKER (SFA + GLC)) should now be available in shops (while stocks last)...so there shouldn't be any problems getting hold of a copy (!).
(catalogue number : PLC07CD // distributor : PINNACLE )."

A big thank you goes to Casey, for helping us double our website space! And thanks to all the people who've been writing with contributions. Write superfurrylogic[AT]aol.com with photos and reports from the upcoming shows...

Bookmark French-language website Sound of Violence for news and reviews of SFA and other bands. We're always looking for more non-English links ~ do write if you have any to share.

BBC Cornwall has a report and extensive photo gallery from the Eden Project appearance with Air.

There's a report from Brecon Jazz Festival on BBC Wales.

Ankst is releasing a Datblygu box set in September.

The Colorado Welsh Society is offering informal Welsh classes in Denver. See Links for more resources.

Furries fan and young journalist Rachelle Ansell sadly died in 2002. A foundation has been set up in her name, offering no-interest loans to British student, and funding student journalism projects. Visit The Rachelle Ansell Foundation for more information. Also visit Rainbow Ducks, Journobus and Festonline.

9 Songs Debuts in Toronto
9 Songs, a film by Michael Winterbottom (director of 24 Hour Party People) will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

As we wrote here in May, the film captures live performances from Super Furry Animals, Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, Von Bondies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Michael Nyman, as witnessed by the couple at the center of the erotic, explicit love story. Read more on Yahoo/Variety. The film is covered by the Guardian and Screen Daily, and already is generating a lot of general press over content. There's a follow up article in the Guardian. Speaking to icWales, a spokesman for SFA said, "The band are very pleased to be part of the film and hope it will be a success." ~ 18 August

27-28 August : Reading & Leeds
SFA will co-headline the Radio 1 Stage with Graham Coxon on Friday, 27 August at Reading Festival and Saturday, 28 August at Leeds. Coxon will close the evening at Reading, and SFA will be the final act at Leeds, according to Xfm. Update: Reading has sold out. Leeds has just day tickets.

Update: BBC Radio 1 will be broadcasting from Leeds.

Golde Lookin' Chain joined SFA onstage, although the Reading set was cut short by equipment malfunction and the 11PM curfew. See articles: NME.com [2] [3] [4] [5]

See the BBC Radio 1 photo gallery from Leeds. Read the BBC Berkshire review.

nunuworldmusic has photographs from the Oxford Zodiac show.

Bethan & Huw Radio 1 In Wales will have a track from SFA on Thursday's show (2 September). ~ 11 May, 1 September

16 August : Ffa Coffi Pawb ~ Am Byth ~ Retrospective
SFA's label Placid Casual will release a retrospective from Gruff Rhys' and Daf Ieuan's earlier band, Ffa Coffi Pawb, on 16 August. The compilation, Am Byth, draws together hard-to-find tracks from the band's Ankst label releases, singles, cassettes, and compilations, most of which have not been on CD before.

Track listing, courtesy Hall Or Nothing:
Valium (from Dalec Peilon, released 88)
Allan O'i Phen (originally recorded for Fideo 9 in Nov 89, released on 12" in 1990)
Breichiau Hir (from Clymhalio released in 91)
Gafael Yn Dynn (from Hei Mr DJ, 91)
Sega Segur (from Hei Vidal, released 92)
Arwynebol Melyn (from Hei Vidal)
Lluchia Dy Fflachlwch Drosta (from Hei Vidal)
Gweld Dim Byd (from Clymhalio)
Llosga Nhy I Lawr (from Torrwyr Beddau Byd Eang Cyf on Siwgwr, released 86)
Ffarout (from Hei Vidal)
Gwneud Fy Mhen I Fewn (from Dalec Peilon)
Gwn (split flexi disc with Terry Waite A'r Asid, released 89)
Hydref Yn Sacramento (from Clymhalio)
Colli'r Goriad (from Hei Vidal)
Mynd I Lawr (from Dalec Peilon)
Dwi'n Troi'n Ffrwyth (from a 12" released in 89)

Ffa Coffi Pawb also featured Rhodri Puw, later of Psycho VII and now with Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and Dewi Emlyn, who has worked behind-the-scenes with GZM, SFA, Mogwai and Cornelius. For more about other pre-SFA bands, see our ever-expanding Recordings : afore page. If you have any information we might add there, please write.

Update: Read an interview with Gruff and Daf about the early days on BBC Wales Music. And there will be a feature in the forthcoming issue of Sound Nation, a Welsh music magazine. Make sure you sign up for a subscription at their website ~ it's free!

The title appears to be a play on the Welsh phrase, Cymru Am Byth (Wales Forever). Read reviews in Clear and Refreshing, BBC Wales Music and Crud Magazine. Valium was covered by Pop Negatif Wastad in 89.

Some early copies come with coffee beans rattling around inside the CD spine. (We'll enjoy ours with a nice Jamaica Blue Mountain...) Note that the release date has changed. It was released in Japan on Toy's Factory. ~ 21 May, 11 August

re:Pete
Check out the Monsterised artwork in the new Kia ads. Pete's surfing to San Diego in July. The new Playbeast shop has launched ~ Cardboy is out and Monsterism 3 is on the way. There's an article on Pete and Mark James [AKAMUSHI] in Sound Nation. There's so much going on, we can't keep up. But we try on: Pete Fowler . Art . Info. We've sold out of the One-Eyed bears he designed for all of you, but more are on the way.

26 August ~ Oxford Zodiac
SFA will play a show at Oxford Zodiac on 26 August, before the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Tickets are �12.50 from wegottickets.com. Press link NME.com. ~ 26 July

14 August : Summer Sundae Weekender ~ Leicester
Super Furry Animals will headline the Summer Sundae Weekender festival in Leicester, on Saturday, 14 August. The festival runs from 13 August to 15 August, at the De Montfort Hall and Gardens. Other acts on the bill include air, DJ Mr Scruff, Amy Winehouse, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Jim Moray and Los De Abajo.

Update: BBC 6 Music DJs Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson will be broadcasting the event live on BBC Radio, according to This is Leicester.

Update: SFA's set will be broadcast on BBC6 Jane Gazzo's Dream Ticket on Monday, 16 August, from 2200-2400 BST.

Listen to Juxaposed With U and Piccolo Snare on the BBC6 Summer Sundae website, Steve Lamaq talked to Gruff and aired two songs on his Sunday show (listen again around 21:40), and view the BBC6 photos.

BBC Leicester spoke with Bunf and has photos from the festival. ~ 14 April, 16 August

Furry friends, please remember this is an independent website. We don't have any official connection to SFA. Your orders through our shop links help support us. Click on the CDs and DVDs pictured and get yourself some music! Thanks so much! Rockfeedback talks to Gruff and Graham Coxon. See Toy's Factory for details on the Japanese releases of Phantom Phorce and Ffa Coffi Pawb's Am Byth collection. Thanks to James Morgan for the photo from last year's show at Keele University. See SFA : 7. If you have anything to share, please write superfurrylogic[AT]aol.com. Highlights from FIB 2003 are out on a 2 DVD set, including SFA performing Rings Around The World and Juxtapozed With U (released 5 July). Download the Soyuz vs. SFA Out Of Control remix from Lost Dog Recordings. ~ thanks to Gaz BBC Radio 1 ~ You Knows It: a brief history of the Goldie Lookin' Chain

S4C Digidol [UK Sky Digital] is airing the film Diwrnod Hollol Mindblowing Heddiw on 13 September. It was written by Owain Meredith, stars MC Mabon/Gruff  Meredeith and features songs from SFA's Mwng album and Big Leaves. ~ thanks to Loo

13 August : Eden Project
SFA will support Air at the Eden Project on Friday, 13 August. Tickets are �25 + �2 P&P from the Eden Box Office on 01726 811972 or www.edenproject.com
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From their website: "All ticket prices include entry to Eden on the day or day after the concert. Local buses will run to all the Sessions from Falmouth, Truro, St Austell and Newquay. Return tickets are �7 and are available from Truronian on 01872 273453." ~ 1 July

Not on for Fuji Rock Festival ~ Japan
SFA were to play the sold out Fuji Rock Festival, held at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on 30 July-1 August. As announced on Smash-UK.com, this appearance has been cancelled, due to the band's recording schedule. ~ updated 6 May, thanks to Mangilovewales

From a press release from Hall Or Nothing:
"Super Furry Animals break from the recording of their seventh studio album for some select live activity this summer. SFA, currently recording on the Costa Brava with Mario Caldato Jr. (Phantom Power), will play at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the Eden Project, the Brecon Jazz Festival and Leicester's Summer Sundae. [...] More SFA activity promised for late-summer/autumn 2004. More news soon."

There's a "Best Of" release in the works, and Beggar's Banquet will be releasing Phantom Phorce with the Slow Life EP in the US on 24 August (date was pushed back).

Rhys Ifans is on the Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn on CBS-TV in the US, Friday, 6 August.

12 August : Brecon Jazz Festival
SFA will play a special show on Thurday, 12 August in a 1,000-seater marquee, as a special warm-up for the Brecon Jazz Festival. Tickets cost �15 and are available now from the Theatr Brycheiniog box office: 01874 611622. (Note that the onsale date in NME is incorrect, don't delay, it will likely sell out quickly.)

From their website: "The beautiful market town of Brecon is situated on the A40 between Abergavenny and Llandovery. It is also easily accessible from the A470, Cardiff to Builth Wells road. The nearest rail stations are at Abergavenny, Merthyr Tydfil and Hereford and there are also local bus services." ~ 28 June

Site News
We're gathering a list of SFA's Gear. And we have a new list of DJ Sets & Mixes. If you'd like to contribute, please visit the new pages and let us know what to add or change. In other site news, we're expanding the photo galleries in our SFA pages, and there's new Press links added almost daily. You can sign our new Guestbook. And we've added a drop-down menu to our home page, for another way to get around. Explore and enjoy!

Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power ~ "The most under rated band in Britain. Fantastic record makers, and their imagery is second to none. Love them." ~ Kelly Jones, Stereophonics, in the Guardian

Isle of Wight Festival
Have a review or photos from Isle of Wight Festival? Write and we'll post them here. Virgin Radio and Wire Image have photographs, Living Abroad Magazine, Telegraph, and Sunday Mirror have articles from the festival. Channel 4 broadcast highlights.

Phantom Phorce
Update from Placid Casual:

"Mae Placid Casual yn falch i gael cyhoeddi y bydd pentwr mawr a disglair o PHANTOM PHORCE (y fersiwn arbennig, cyfyngedig, dau-cd) gyda ni i'w gwerthu eto cyn bo hir...bydd modd eu harchebu / prynnu arlein yn siop Super Furry Animals yn www.superfurry.com. Diolch am eich hamynnedd."

"Placid Casual are delighted and visibly excited to declare that very soon there will be copies of PHANTOM PHORCE (the special, limited-edition double-cd version) available from the Super Furry Animals shop at www.superfurry.com. Thank you for your patience."

We were told by SFA's management that there is a North American release in the works, but do not have any further information.

Back to Creation
There's an hour long look at the history of Creation Records, including comment from Gruff Rhys, on BBC Radio 2. Visit the website for Alan McGee's Poptones for more. And also see Wichita Recordings, another label formed by former Creation Records people, Dick Green and Mark Bowen. Thanks to creation-records.com, the old Creation SFA web pages from 97 are now archived.

Recording & Rumors
According to the NME, the Furries have been recording in Costa Brava, Spain, with Phantom Power producer, Mario Caldato Jr., and will be taking a break to play the summer festivals.

The Sunday Times reports that "One of Dublin's most prominent nightclub owners is launching a music festival for poshies not up to the rough and tumble of traditional outdoor events. The concert will take place at Stradbally Manor, in Co. Laois, on September 4 and is rumoured to feature such acts as Groove Armada Lee "Scratch" Perry, David Kitt, Super Furry Animals and Jurassic 5." ~ 1, 6 July, thanks to Hooligan

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