SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

They are generally pretty stiff live unless they're doing the rehearsed bits like the yeti outro.

Gruff is much more entertaining when he's alone for some reason.

I dunno. I thought they were fantastic on the RAtW tour.

I'd never heard this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNurmiAGjYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNurmiAGjYU

Danger Mouse really should produce the inevitable tenth SFA album. He expressed a desire to do so in the past.

Oops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRQ2ObNhSI

This is the documentary that aired on S4C last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmMSzI3hWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7_jT-obmc

Not his most sonically exciting composition, but I like the message and I'm amazed it's been trending for hours on Twitter.

http://i.imgur.com/ENDKK90l.jpg

Tweeted by his label earlier today.

Maybe Q got some bad information, but it sounds like he said something about 'new SFA songs' based on the headline.

Gruff is always pretty poor at describing his songs, but here it is:

"Imminently, there are more soundtracks, solo material and SFA's Euro 2016 song for Wales, the not-so-profoundly titled Bing Bong which Rhys describes as a 'six-and-a-half-minute demented disco idiot track, in the Welsh language."

I booked a trip to Philadelphia, next week, to catch a show. Was researching also hitting up the Boston show, and found this notice for all upcoming dates (including the Philadelphia one around which I planned my trip):

Please Note: This event has moved from Tuesday, 5/3/16 to Sunday, 7/24/16.

Re: Philadelphia...

Super Furry Animals' tour plans have changed. The new date for their Philadelphia show will be July 22nd. All tickets for the May 7th date will be honored.

Anybody have any information? Does this have something to do with Levitation being canceled? What the fuck.

Huh I had tickets for next Fri night in DC and now the show has disappeared from the 930 calendar. Never got any email or nothing wtf

Looks like DC is now June 5

Unbelievable.

anyone have link to new dates?

https://twitter.com/superfurry/status/726349510436347905

That's really terrible. I wonder why they only just announced it. The venues were all ahead of the announcement.

At least they're releasing a new song.

Oh great, a football song. Quality control, once a great feature 'o' this band, has clearly gone right out 'o' the window at this stage.

great title, too. :)

If you're 5.

https://twitter.com/superfurry/status/653000547222593536

They used a bingbong hashtag back in October. Must be some kind of hilarious inside joke.

"hilarious"

That this once-great band that once put out a run 'o' seriously great records from 1997-2003, including the 5.1 extravaganza 'o' Rings Around The World, R now reduced 2 putting out football songs entitled 'Bing Bong' ... Yeah, that's totally hilarious.

Cmon, I know it isn't funny.

I'll wait to hear it, though "idiot disco" makes me think of a cross between •Lazer beam" and "Psyclone!"

https://instagram.com/p/BEyNef0uJz0/

BING BONG

That this once-great band that once put out a run 'o' seriously great records from 1997-2003, including the 5.1 extravaganza 'o' Rings Around The World, R now reduced 2 putting out football songs entitled 'Bing Bong' ... Yeah, that's totally hilarious.

IIRC Cian said they'd definitely record a song if that happened, so he's just keeping his promise.

It's kinda amazing how this band didn't really have a slow decline, just 2 distinct periods where they were excellent and then suddenly not so, with Songbook being the divider.

I would suggest most bands of their caliber from the 90s dropped off equally. Don't much care for blur's think tank and I thought the new one was completely terrible. Supergrass fell off hard.

Hell, all bands do. No one seems to get better with age.

Except Paul McCartney obviously

Yeah,but Wings have done nowt since he left them.

thankx 4 the reminders of what sux

Dark Days/Light Years - does not suck

RYM has DD/LY down as SFA's lowest rated LP.

On the other hand it's hangin' with their 2000-2003 albums on Metacritic.

So, the critics enjoyed it on their initial listens, but people disagreed with that initial assessment over time. Which is understandable, because it doesn't come remotely close to their 1994-2003 work.

I dunno - the only SFA record I can't get into is LoveKraft, and even that album I quite dig about 1/2 of. Still spinning the last 2 on a regular basis, and I rate both of them higher than Mwng and Guerilla.

Apparently 'Bing Bong' is out tomorrow.

Can't wait for Turrican to dismiss it. :)

I thought it was out next Friday?

Misread the tea leaves. Out the 15th. They're really hyping it up. Feels like an album is on the horizon.

Starting to feel skeptical about a new album again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewd8gw

Cian Ciarán Presents: Rhys & Meinir
For 20 years and counting a member of Super Furry Animals, Cian Ciarán comes together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to tell a traditional Welsh fable in music. The world premiere performance of a work that has been almost two-decades in development, Cian Ciarán’s first orchestral piece Rhys & Meinir promises a rare, aural experience that encapsulates the drama of ancient Welsh folklore, the envisioned splendour of rural Wales and the innate, musical curiosity of the intrepid composer.
Rhys and Meinir found love in the village of Nant Gwrtheyrn, North Wales and their childhood romance blossomed for all to see. On the day of their marriage, Meinir is nowhere to be found and the mystery leads Rhys into months of despair. When finally a thunder strike reveals Meinir’s final hiding place, Rhys is unable to live a second longer.

Out in two days.

http://i.imgur.com/6yf5Z4p.jpg

They're releasing it on Strangetown, so they're self-releasing it.

will be interesting to read about how bad this is over every alternate post for the remainder of the thread

You never told me which Gorky's cover you did. I'm curious. :)

It's up on Amazon

On Spotify as well if you're in the uK.

I'm not.

Oh, I thought you meant the Gorky's cover was on spotify

Nah. That's on bandcamp for free.

Well, this sounds exactly like you'd expect it to based on the name.

I don't know.

At least it's like a special occasion single.

It doesn't sound like anything else they've done at least.

Well, it's better than the Manics one at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXpWvEW3ZU