NEWS
SFA NOMINATED FOR UNCUT'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- 23/09/2009
from walesonline.co.uk Super Furry Animals are among 25 acts battling it out in the hunt for the year's best album, it was announced today. The Psychedelic Welsh band are nominated for the Uncut Music Award, an international equivalent of the Mercury Prize, for Dark Days/Light Years. The award's aim is to find the most inspirational release of the past 12 months with judges including Billy Bragg, Mark Radcliffe and Christian O'Connell. Also in the running for the award – to be announced on November 24 – are acts such as Arctic Monkeys, Fever Ray, Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective. Nominations for the prize, launched by respected music magazine Uncut, are chosen regardless of nationality, age and sales figures. Also on the judging panel is Robin Pecknold, frontman of last year's winner, Fleet Foxes. Allan Jones, editor of Uncut, said: "There has been a lot of brilliant music over the last year, as our long list of 25 albums vividly demonstrates. Deciding which of them most merits winning the 2009 Uncut Music award is going to be an exciting process, but no easy task."
SFA TO RECORD SONG FOR YO GABBA GABBA
- 10/08/2009
Super Furry Animals writing song for kids' TV show 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' Super Furry Animals are writing a song set to be aired on US childrens' TV show 'Yo Gabba Gabba!'. The Welsh band revealed that the tune was in the pipeline – although did not say whether they would appear in person on the show, as bands including MGMT and The Ting Tings (see video below for their performance) have. "We're recording a song for 'Yo Gabba Gabba!', the crazy kids TV show at the moment," frontman Gruff Rhys told BBC News. Elaborating on how he got in the zone to write the song, he added: "You drink lots of additives. You go to the shop and buy everything that's coloured orange or red and because you're grown up, you have to drink 50 times the amount a kid would need to go mental. "Then you just play at hyper-speed and jump around and stuff."
SFA SOMERSET HOUSE SETLIST
- 20/07/2009
Super Furry Animals play career-spanning set in London Super Furry Animals Gruff Rhys Welsh band roll out the classics at Somerset House show Jul 20, 2009 The Welsh band's Somerset House gig, watched by the likes of Cornershop, Goldie Lookin Chain and former Spacemen 3 singer Sonic Boom, kicked off with five of the their best-known singles, including the UK Top 20 hits 'Juxtapozed With U' and 'Golden Retriever'. SFA also played seven songs from current album 'Dark Days/Light Years', including 'Inaugural Trams', whose studio version features a German rap from Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy. As he couldn’t make it on the evening, singer Gruff Rhys, who was celebrating his birthday, held up a picture of the star to huge cheers. The set's real surprise was the rarely-performed 'Blerwytirhwng?', which features on the band's 2004 singles compilation 'Songbook', as well as the 1998 B-sides collection 'Out Spaced'. The track originally featured on SFA's 1995 debut EP 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (In Space)'. Super Furry Animals played: 'Slow Life' |