NEWS

Happy new year! This should be a very furry year indeed with the release of Album 6 and DVD 2 in June. Other notable releases this year will be Blur's new album (minus guitarist Graham Coxon, alas) and Radiohead's one too. Hopefully 2003 will turn out a lot better than 2002 was for music.

I've put up the chords for Edam Anchorman, or at least my guess at them.

Gruff recently made an appearance on the excellent new FC Kahuna album, "Machine Says Yes", co-writing and performing a track called Fear Of Guitars. The song is beat-free and mostly uses acoustic guitar samples against some really strange singing from Gruff. The whole album is highly recommended.

Album news! Album six has been confirmed as having a release date of June 2003. Apparently, it will also be released simultaneously on DVD, RATW-style, although the details at the moment are sketchy. It has been confirmed that Zoom will not be appearing on this album, unfortunately.

I've updated the Discography code so that it now displays song lengths alongside most tracks, which might be useful when using the Mix-Tape Planner!

Thanks to Miriam at indie-girl.com, there are now some photos of pre-SFA outfit Ffa Coffi Pawb available. Check them out. Hope Music Media also has some photos from the RATW recording sessions in New York.

Anyway, once again I shall soon be off back to university, where I can't edit this website (cry), so if you have anything you want me to know about in the meantime, you can contact me at taras @ superfurry.org.

Have a nice Christmas and a happy new year!

--taras

The Furries are featured in a new book about the avant-garde side of Paul McCartney. Author Ian Peel interviews the band in his new book The Unknown Paul McCartney about his infamous carrot-crunching on Receptacle For The Respectable, and McCartney's history of vegetable-munching in popular music.

In other news, the Official Site has been completely wiped clean in preparation for album six. All that's there now is a set of improved message boards, with more content promised as the album's release becomes imminent.

It was confirmed on the message board that the wonderful Zoom will not be featured on the new album, to the disappointment of many.

And, unfortunately, you can't expect many more updates from me for the time being - I haven't found a way to access FTP from uni, so it looks like the only times I will be updating the site will be when I'm at home or if I can afford to use an Internet café... ah well :/

Bye for now! (I am still reachable by email if anyone wants to send me something... like "access all areas" passes to any future Edinburgh gig... *hint* *hint* :) )

-- taras