Music :: Live Review 14 Nov 2008
Pete Ballantine: Marty!! Time to don those Aviators and jump into the DeLorean. For one night only, we are going back to the future. Well, back to the 80s it would seem, as Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip bring their paean to everybody’s favourite playboy car designer, J...
Music :: Feature 13 Oct 2008
Paul Mitchell: Thank god (or whatever) for freedom of expression! Pity the repressed denizens of countries under the influence of communism or dictatorships! Thankfully our ‘liberal’ society has no truck with such restrictions eh? Oh, hang on, have you me...
Music :: Feature 01 Oct 2008
Nick Mitchell: Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys have differing memories of the DeLorean DMC-12, the fabled supercar that moonlighted as a time machine in Back to the Future. Bip (real name Bryan Hollon) recalls that, in the American Mid-West of his youth, "it was always like ...
Records :: Album Review 22 Sep 2008
Ryan Drever: The Golden Mile - the debut from the peth, featuring Dafydd Ieuean of the Super Furry Animals and actor Rhys Ifans (himself a former Furry) on vocals - is a psyche-rock nightmare. Inspired by an area of cardiff with the same name, it splices the muse o...
Music :: Heads Up :: News 26 Aug 2008
Nick Mitchell: He may be in the midst of promoting his 80s-styled Neon Neon collaboration with Boom Bip, but Super Furry Animals fans will be pleased to know that frontman Gruff Rhys is already planning not one but two albums of new material with his Cardiff cohorts....
Music :: Live Review 07 Nov 2007
Nick Mitchell: Welsh Britpop survivors turned psychedelic cult favourites Super Furry Animals should be perfectly suited to the kitschy warmth of the Barrowlands. But while tracks like Juxtaposed Wit U and Zoom! sound as deliciously acid-fried as ever, the live expos...
Records :: Album Review 09 Aug 2007
Chris Bathgate: Eternally creative, SFA's new album crosses new territory, but still effortlessly raises the eyebrows and a happy smile. Hey Venus! mixes elegant harmonies and stomping rock-outs, complete with elevated chord changes, while the vocals are so blissed-ou...
