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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Gruff rhys | History Defined

Super Furry Animals at O2 Academy Brixton: A joyously irrepressible experience

5/5 Back for a reunion tour, the Welsh cult heroes easily devour O2 Academy Brixton in their yeti gear

Evening Standard

Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voice

The Guardian - UK

‘We got a drive-by egging in Baltimore’: Super Furry Animals on making The Man Don’t Give a Fuck

‘The man is the establishment, I suppose, the military industrial complex. A few year later, when we played it live, we added a loop of Bill Hicks saying: “All governments are liars and murderers”’

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Rhys Ifans sings on previously unheard Super Furry Animals track

Super Furry Animals have released a previously unheard track featuring original singer Rhys Ifans.

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The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

The Guardian - UK

Gruff Rhys: ‘Welsh is still being invented as a pop language’

The Super Furry Animals frontman is back with his ninth solo album. Before a tour of regional village halls in Wales, he talks creating songs in his first language – and why English is the best for swearing

The Guardian - UK

Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals to reform for tour next year

The Supacabra tour includes six dates in Britain and Ireland next May.

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‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years

It’s gone from a cowshed to a cultural institution. As its 3,000-album archive gets digitised, different generations explain how Sain deepened Welsh identity

The Guardian - UK

Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free review – an irresistible mix of melancholy and joy

Lyrical diatribes against the government, the monarchy and property developers are rendered in light, lush instrumentation on Rhys’s 25th album

The Guardian - UK

From All of Us Strangers to Daniel Sloss: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are lovers across time in a superb fantasy-drama, and the comedian’s comedian tours his cerebral, laser-guided standup

The Guardian - UK

Gruff Rhys: ‘We sold the Super Furry Animals tank to Don Henley from the Eagles’

The Welsh musician, composer and film-maker answers your questions about partying with Oasis, sponsoring Cardiff City FC and getting the old band back together

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Gruff Rhys

Your chance to grill the Welsh indie darling and Super Furry Animals frontman on his tank-driving skills, theatre work and his impulsively recorded new album, Sadness Sets Me Free

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Lost and Found review – catchy songs and breezy fun as Gruff Rhys steers Oliver Jeffers’ story

Musician-puppeteers help tell the tale of a boy and a penguin in this carefully crafted adaptation of the popular picture book

The Guardian - UK

Factory International to premiere stage show of beloved kid's book

Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found will be debuting in Manchester

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HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2023 preview: The event looking to overhaul the UK’s ‘suspicion of philosophy’

Louis Chilton looks ahead to the 2023 philosophy and music event in Hay-on-Wye, and speaks to the festival’s founder Hilary Lawson

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"We were put in a team with Gandhi and Elvis" – Gruff Rhys recalls how the Super Furry Animals were given their own team on Actua Soccer 2

Welsh rock gods Super Furry Animals' love for computer games saw them immortalised in a 90s football classic

The Guardian - UK

The outsider’s outsider: John Cale by Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys and James Dean Bradfield

Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician

Wales Online

House of Dragon's Rhys Ifans has a new podcast about the real-life Welsh Breaking Bad

Operation Julie saw one of the world's biggest ever drug busts

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Classical home listening: Haydn with Harry Christophers, and a new Welsh-language opera

Boston’s H+H shine in a live recording of Haydn’s Theresienmesse; and WNO, Stephen McNeff and Gruff Rhys do Hedd Wyn proud

Wales Online

The best pictures from Green Man 2022 festival

There’s so much going on we couldn’t fit it all into one photo gallery

Wales Online

Stereophonics and Tom Jones in Cardiff 2022: Start times and running order for the Principality Stadium gig

The Welsh music legends will be taking over the stadium for two nights running

Wales Online

Everything that's happening in Cardiff this weekend including huge gigs, festivals, and sports events

From Sir Tom Jones to breakdancing and parkour it is set to be a busy weekend in the capital

Wales Online

Stereophonics and Tom Jones in Cardiff: Stage times, banned items, road closures, support and more

The Welsh legends are playing in the Principality Stadium

Wales Online

BBC 6 Music Festival: Are there tickets left for the Cardiff gigs?

Here are the gigs with tickets left and where you can catch up on coverage if you've missed your favourite act

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