SFA New Years

A belated happy new year to all, the hang over is finally out the way so time to look forward to what will hopefully be a great year. I saw the New Year in at the auspicious surroundings of London’s Royal Festival Hall for a Super Furry Animals gig. The Furries are one of those bands that keep going, are a solid live act and seem to stand for doing thing there own way, last years album Hey Venus didn’t get the attention it deserved despite the band touring pretty solidly. they have a large US tour lined up for this year.

The high light of their live act is always the storming The Man Don’t Give a Fuck, as the song ends it merges into some dirty acid techno. On new years this played out for what seemed like quarter of an hour before the boys came on to finish the song, turning a venue more used to mostly higher brow arts into a bit of a rave. The Furries, Gruff Ryhs last year released a great solo album called Candy Lion that’s a gentle acoustic contrast to some of the Super Furrys more psychedelic adventures. Here’s Candylion from the Gruff Rhys album of the same name and Neo Consumer from SFA’s Hey Venus.


Gruff Rhys - Candylion


SuperFurry Animals - Neo Consumer

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