A few gigs here and there. Well, mostly there...

October 9, HMV Forum, London
Looks like there's going to be another London gig for the Furries in October. It's at the HMV Forum in Kentish Town at 7pm. Tickets are available from Stargreen at a pricey £25.25.

November 7, Dubai Sound City, Dubai
That London gig isn't on the Furry MySpace page but this one is. I don't know if you can buy tickets yet but here's Sound City's facebook page anyway.

November, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
According to the Citizen Board they are playing (I think) two gigs in Japan - Tokyo and Osaka - in late November. I have no clue where you can buy tickets for those gigs as the links don't work (plus, I can't read Japanese).

EDIT: There's a last.fm event page now for the Tokyo gig, you might get more helpful information from there (more helpful than me); Super Furry Animals at Shibuya-Ax

And still no gigs for the East of England...

As ever, be wary about sites that you're buying tickets from.

Beachdown cancelled

What more can I say? Bummer. Seems to me they should have got their act together and sorted this out before now. And only on Monday they said on their Twitter site that the festival, being held this weekend, was NOT cancelled. No, of course not. They wanted a few more people to buy tickets before they cancelled...

Beachdown cancelled

Possible Furry tour!

SFA have announced two new dates (so say Artrocker), tickets for which go on sale on Friday (August 7);

October 15, Glasgow, O2 ABC
Not sure where you can buy these, the ABC website doesn't have it up yet. But if you're on 02 (which I am), you should be able to already buy priority tickets. If you can find it. I can't. Maybe it doesn't actually exist...

October 16, Manchester, The Ritz
Click the date. G'wan!

Artrocker seem to think that these are the 'first dates of a soon to be expanded UK tour set to kick off in October'. Just a rumour at the minute as I've only seen it on the Artrocker website so far. But I do love a good rumour and I love spreading them even more. So here's the link. Which has no more information than in this post but, y'know, proof that I'm not just living in a daydream. Not this time, anyway.

I knew they were just teasing when they said they wouldn't tour. The little flirts.

I think maybe I should sign back up to that UEA newsletter...

Somerset House and Ben & Jerry's

I'm a bit late in posting about these, but, y'know... I needed time to recover.

Somerset House
Somerset House last Saturday was absolutely ELECTRIC. The best live performance I've seen of the Furries. They played a nice mix of old and new songs;

1. Slow Life
2. (Drawing) Rings Around The World
3. Juxtapozed With U
4. Golden Retriever
5. Hello Sunshine
6. Mt.
7. Moped Eyes
8. Demons
9. Inaugural Trams
10. The Very Best Of Neil Diamond
11. White Socks/Flip Flops
12. Pric
13. Earth
14. Blerwytirhwng?
15. The International Language Of Screaming
16. If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You
17. Neo-Consumer
18. God! Show Me Magic
19. Crazy Naked Girls
20. The Man Don't Give A Fuck
21. Keep The Cosmic Trigger Happy

An almost perfect set-list! Just written down it looks bloody fantastic, doesn't it? If they'd played Ice Hockey Hair and Gwreiddiau Dwfn/Mawrth Oer Ar y Blaned Neifion I think my life would have been complete. But they didn't. So I live another day.

Strangely, one of the highlights of this set for me is a song that just seems to pass me by on the album; Crazy Naked Girls. It is really amazing live when they throw their whole behind it. Bunf, in particular, really rocks this song. It's turning into a great part of their set, I wonder if it might even start to threaten the mighty The Man Don't Give a Fuck in the classic live track stakes? And Blerwytirhwng? was a nice surprise! I wish they'd play some of their more obscure tracks more often. I don't think I've ever heard them play that song before... Thinking about it, there's probably a lot of their songs I've never heard live - but this one I think my life is actually better now I've heard it. Hmm, yeah...

Couldn't make it to the warehouse party in the end, which I was really disappointed about as it sounded groovy. Ah well. The gig was fantastic, anyways.

Ben & Jerry's Sundae on the Common
Shorter set list for this one as it was kind of a mini-festival;

1. Slow Life
2. Rings Around the World
3. Juxtapozed with U
4. Golden Retriever
5. Hello Sunshine
6. Mt.
7. Demons
8. If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You
9. Inaugural Trams
10. God! Show Me Magic
11. Crazy Naked Girls
12. The Man Don't Give a Fuck
13. Keep the Cosmic Trigger Happy

Again, Crazy Naked Girls was phenomenal. I am missing some of the new tracks, though. Where's Moped Eyes? The Very Best of Neil Diamond? (there was no saz!) Cardiff in the Sun? I think Cardiff in the Sun would have been fantastic as the weather was so great.

King Creosote was on earlier in the day, and he was really good. I'm not really all that acquainted with his stuff but he really won me over. Another band that were terrific; I Am Kloot. I know their songs better than I know King Creosote's but I've never heard them live before. Will definitely make a point of seeing them again. To You was transcendental...

I have photos! You can see them all at Flickr but here's my favourites;

SFA and Flaming Lips at ATP

I've just seen on the ATP website that the Super Furries have now been added to Sunday's line-up. So, it's confirmed then. Plus, it promises that they will perform an exclusive, special, one-in-a-million, bespoke, fantabulous set.

Man, Flaming Lips and the Furries on the same day? I really wish I was going. But, y'know, I'm a few thousand miles away.

You can buy tickets on ATP's website. If you want to make me jealous.

Ho-hum.

BBC 6 Music

Thanks again are due to the list, I don't know where I'd be without it;

SFA might be playing live on Cerys Matthews' lunchtime show on BBC 6 Music, Thursday 16th July, 1-4pm (I think they're playing sometime between 1 and 4pm. Not for 3 hours. Although that would be ace.)

Then, Radiator is being discussed on Liz Kershaw's show on Saturday 18th July, 12-2pm

BBC 6 Music is a great radio station, the only one I regularly listen to. Adam and Joe are a staple of my Saturday morning (Unfortunately, though, they're currently off on a far-too-long holiday...)

Just make sure you don't listen to that other DJ on 6 Music. You know the one.

You snoozed, you... er, losed?

All the cheaper tickets for the Corsica Studios warehouse party have now gone. And, yes, I did buy a pair while they were still cheap! But, you can now buy the £3 more expensive ones online.

I promise I won't spend my £6 frivolously. I'll put it towards something Furry related...