Super Furry Animals

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Super Furry Animals (also known as “SFA”, the “Furries” and the “Super Furries”) are a critically acclaimed welsh alternative rock band, with leanings towards psychedelic rock, punk, britpop and electronic experimentation.

They formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1993 by Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw ‘Bunf’ Bunford (guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass), Cian Ciaran (keyboards, electronics) and Dafydd Ieuan (drums) and have released nine full length albums and numerous EPs. The most recent release is 2009’s “Dark Days/Light Years”.

-Early years-
The band formed in Cardiff after being in various other Welsh bands and techno outfits in the area, among them Ffa Coffi Pawb. Lead vocalist/guitarist Gruff Rhys, drummer/vocalist Dafydd Ieuan and bassist Guto Pryce had been together since the early 1990s and had toured the north coast of France as a techno group. The other two members of the band are lead guitarist/vocalist Huw Bunford and keyboardist/vocalist Cian Ciaran; the latter is Ieuan’s younger brother. They then got to work on writing some songs, and in 1995 ended up signing to Ankst, the famous Welsh indie rock label. The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music (and art, and literature) in the 1990s: other Welsh bands of the time include Catatonia, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and the Manic Street Preachers.
The actor Rhys Ifans was briefly lead vocalist of the band, before they found national success.

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royalpoet wrote:
8 hours ago

Fantastic band. Songbook really showcases their brilliance in a compact fashion, but all their albums are strong. Their first two albums are perfect masterpieces.

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
yesterday evening

Ditto.

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Juanba12 wrote:
yesterday morning

SFA isn't Brit Pop...

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infectedmodes wrote:
yesterday morning

< We Love British Bands >

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oprimus wrote:
Monday afternoon

we've got another pair to give away. The first person to send an email to thefouroh5@gmail.com saying " I want to go to Wakestock" gets the pair

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caesarromero wrote:
Sunday evening

Here's the lowdown on the SFA Warehouse party on July 18th. Straight after their Somerset House show the band will be hot-footing it over the river with a host of their favourite DJs in tow. Expect wild and wonderful DJ sets from SFA members Gruff Rhys and Guto Pryce themselves, buckets of psychedelic freak beat fuzzy madness from special guests Cherrystones ( Whatever We Want, Poptones ), Andy Votel ( Twisted Nerve, B Music, Finders Keepers ), Pete Fowler ( Monsterism ) and fellow patriot Huw Evans, a whole other room of mutant techno from Cian Ciaran’s Acid Casuals plus a slick mixture of kraut-rock, cosmic disco and techno grooves from Allez Allez, Jagz Kooner ( Sabres of Paradise ), Copious Breaks & Tomahawk – Psychemagik and the Kosmische Club DJs. If the last party was anything to go by, this is going to be immense. Tickets are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53488. Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB www.corsicastudios.com

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GodShowMeMagic wrote:
last week

Well, the video's OK. Just nothing spectacular. Plus it's just footage from the 'live' gigcast. A lot of ingenious things have been created on a shoe-string budget... it's kinda disappointing that this video isn't a bit more... innovative. Anyway, yeah, the song itself rocks.

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sdl1986 wrote:
last week

The video is stupid, unfortunatey. Oh well. Can't expect them to spend money on stuff that's not gonna win them any new fans anyway. "Mt." the song kicks ass. A lot of ass.

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GodShowMeMagic wrote:
last week

Mt.'s the new single and is gonna be released July 20th... has that been said already? Here's the new vid, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZ0St9NUes. Skybaby won the competition to host it on her channel. Have a look!

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commissar001 wrote:
last week

I love you guys.

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i-phantom wrote:
last week

Any photos?

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AdrianMcHugh wrote:
last week

I was standing right in front of that guy actually, what a twat! Long wait for sure, but once it got going the crowd seemed to calm down a bit.

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ronannestor wrote:
last week

Was at the Bundoran gig too, but found the sound was mixed pretty bad. Took about 50 mins for the crew to set up so the crowd was getting restless, with one guy throwing cans at the crew. Strange atmosphere for an SFA gig, but they still played a blinder though!

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GodShowMeMagic wrote:
last week

Figured it out now, so got it as an mp3. Thanks for the nudge!

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GodShowMeMagic wrote:
last week

Thanks for that :) I haven't heard that in years... same as you, my CD player can't do it. Is it possible to rip it off the CD so you can have the mp3??

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i-phantom wrote:
last week

I forgot all about this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjr5u8aivE My only CD player is my computer at the moment and it can't play this song. I can't believe they hid a track this good, it's one of the best on Guerrilla.

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GodShowMeMagic wrote:
last month

I was at one of the Cardiff shows and I thought it was ace but just not the best venue and they had a couple of teething problems. Now that they've had a few live gigs playing the new album they should have worked out all the little problems they had in Cardiff... Should be good. And I think it'll work great outdoors. But that doesn't mean I'm letting them off touring later in the year or early next year ;)

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sdl1986 wrote:
last month

Good to hear, Adrian. I hope they can tour it a few places in the States. People seemed a little disappointed by their shows in Cardiff a couple weeks ago. Maybe it really is meant for the outdoors. Shame you could fit all their American fans in a medium-sized indoor venue and that's abotu it.

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i-phantom wrote:
last month

Keep in mind that you get all the same artwork on the CD and Vinyl versions, it's just that the inside and outside of the packaging are inverted for each.

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AdrianMcHugh wrote:
last month

The new album works great live - Crazy Naked Girls is as excellent on stage as you'd imagine, The Very Best Of Neil Diamond was slightly reworked which worked brilliantly, and Inaugural Trams and Mt were very heavy on the bass/drums which worked perfectly. Gruff even held up a big cardboard cutout of Nick McCarthy for the rap..

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Jul 18 Super Furry Animals Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
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Jul 18 Super Furry Animals Warehouse Party II Corsica Studios, London, United Kingdom
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Acid Casuals New Release

4 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/superfurry

After hitting number 1 in the Junodownload Chart and having all 4singles in the overall top 20, 'Acid Casuals - Alto Due Pugnali EMezzo' is now available on Beatport https://www.beatport. …

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