Rise of The Super Furry Animals

Rise of The Super Furry Animals
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Rise of the Super Furry Animals tells the story of the greatest psychedelic pop band of our time.Welsh speakers with a lust for global communication, the Super Furry Animals shot to fame on Creation Records and found that, thanks to the record sales of label-mates Oasis, they suddenly had a vast budget to play with. Wasting no time, they bought an army tank and equipped it with a techno sound-system, caused national security alerts with 60-foot inflatable monsters, went into the Colombian jungle with armed Guerrilla fighters, and drew up plans to convert an aircraft carrier into a nightclub.Yet SFA's crazed adventures only tell half the story. By mixing up electronic beats, surf rock, Japanese culture and more, the band recorded some of the most acclaimed albums of the millennium, all the while documenting the mobile phone revolution in their uniquely surreal way.Written with the band’s own participation and housed in a jacket designed by Pete Fowler, the man behind some of SFA’s most iconic album covers, this is the remarkable story of their ascent to fame.

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The Friday Project

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Published by The Friday Project 2015

Copyright © Ric Rawlins

Ric Rawlins asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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Source ISBN: 9780008105235

Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008113377

Version: 2015-01-16

To Marianne and Acorn

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Dramatis Personae

Prologue

Chapter One: Mountain lessons / Hot Puke / The pirates of Bethesda / Citizens band

Chapter Five: SFA Soundsystem / The man don’t give a dub / Rhys says adios / Into space

Chapter Six: Birth of a ringtone / London turns on / Moog Droog / The wisdom of Robert Plant / Outlaw aircraft carrier

Chapter Seven: Tour of Cornwall / The number 23 / Fuzzy Birds / Outlaw hunting / Something out of Killing Joke

Chapter Eight: Fired from a cannon / Hanging with Howard Marks / Meet the press / Baz

Chapter Nine: Turning Japanese / F-16 Jetstreams / Cian-do attitude / Off the map

Chapter Ten: Painting demons / Bouncy castle licence / S4C on the attack / Overtaken by a wheel

Chapter Eleven: Rise of the Shinto gods / Air panic / Gringos in the mist / Unbridled freedom

Chapter Twelve: Deep sleep earthquake / Big trouble in Bogotá / Death to the monarchy

Chapter Thirteen: William Hague’s letter / Ice hockey hootenanny / Britpop turbulence / Electric harps

Chapter Fourteen: Taekwondo music / Love letter to El Niño / Das Koolies

Chapter Fifteen: Placid Casual, Acid Casuals / Bear in a vice / Gods and monsters

Chapter Sixteen: Kamikaze at Glastonbury / Bouncy ghetto blaster / Mash it up / Creation goes down

Chapter Seventeen: Recovered histories / The Roman road / Smoking goats / Pop strike / America

Chapter Eighteen: East coast negotiations / Lost in time

Chapter Nineteen: Intermission / Experiments with earthquakes / The Skull God / Furrymania / Yeti psychosis

Chapter Twenty: Wasteland Gods / Travels in a space buggy / Pizza trippin’

Epilogue

Footnotes

SFA Mixtape

Song Title Translations

Thankyous

About the Publisher

With the band’s consent – and hopefully not too much distress from anyone I’ve forgotten to ask – some of the sections in this book have been ‘cinematised’: that is to say, scripted up and CGI’d into narrative-friendly shape. That said, everything you’re about to read is based on the subjective truth of interviews taken during the research process. It’s also worth noting that, although this is a book in the English language, many of the conversations replicated here – particularly those spoken by the band – would have originally taken place in what Gruff describes as a ‘cracked youthful version’ of the Welsh language.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Cian Ciaran

Dafydd Ieuan

Gruff Rhys

Guto Pryce

Huw Bunford

FFA COFFI PAWB

Gruff Rhys

Dafydd Ieuan

Rhodri Puw

Dewi Emlyn

WALES MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Gorwel Owen

Record producer

Rhys Mwyn

Founder, Anhrefn and Recordiau Anhrefn

Dafydd Rhys

Brother of Gruff Rhys, founder of Pesda Roc festival

Emyr Williams

Co-founder, Ankst Records

Rhys Ifans

Actor, fanzine writer, Super Furry Animal

LONDON MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Brian Cannon

Photographer, filmmaker and creator of imagery

Alan McGee

The boss, Creation Records

John Andrews

Marketing manager, Creation Records

Dick Green

Super Furry Animals representative, Creation Records

Andy Saunders

Press officer, Creation Records

Ian Mahoney

SFA tour manager 1995–8

There, blinking in the darkness, were five shaggy-haired individuals in dressing gowns. The Super Furry Animals had woken up in a rural cottage at four in the morning, with only half-remembered instructions to help themselves to coffee. As they all sat around a large oak table, the one with dark hair suddenly flopped onto its surface with a primeval groan. He was shaken awake again.

A sixth man swaggered in wearing only boxer shorts, smoking a pipe and ticking off the final checklists from his notebook. His name was Ian Mahoney. He was the tour manager.



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