Super Furry Animals!

[4AssedMonkey]

I'm moist at the thought of this. Bloody love SFA.

Strange reading everyone's top fives and fave albums etc. on here as they are so diverse, no one seems to pick the same as anyone else and yet everyone seems happy with what everyone has picked. Testament to the overall high quality of the output I guess. Just to add to this, my fave album is Dark Days/Light Years and if I had to (HAD TO) put a top five songs I'd pick:

Play it Cool

Presidential Suite

Rings

Neil Diamond

Inaugural Trams.

Please headline the Park. I'm a godless heathen but I'll pray like fuck for this.

[4AssedMonkey]

It was during Beyonce/QOTSA

Yeah. That's why I missed it as I was at QOTSA.

[CHRLY]

Really want Park headline, think they'd do wonders with it.

[CaledonianGonzo]

TBH, as with B&S, I could even see SFA requesting The Park to ensure a longer slot in a nicer venue, rather than suffering the slings and arrows of playing teatime on the Other to a load of board Ben Howard fans.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Little discernible diff. Board version is perhaps more charismatic.

[fingers_mark]

A favourite band, will never forget the '99 set with the van driving through the crowd. Annoyingly missed the '03 year.

Park headliner sounds about right. No chance of Other headliner. Third top Other maybe.

[bennyhana22]

TBH, as with B&S, I could even see SFA requesting The Park to ensure a longer slot in a nicer venue, rather than suffering the slings and arrows of playing teatime on the Other to a load of board Ben Howard fans.

Didn't someone post, on reasonable authority, that almost no-one dictates where they play? That the GFL team coordinate for the individual stage teams to invite their specific target bands to play their stage?

I'm sure that there's a bit of argy bargy on the part of bigger, more self-important bands, as to where they are 'prepared' to play, but I got the impression that you were invited and you either said yes, please, or you declined, without any obvious room to negotiate a different stage...

Mind you, saying that, I know genuinely bugger all about it...

Ben

[CaledonianGonzo]

Probably true in most instances, but there's maybe a bit of flex for slightly larger bands playing slightly smaller slots.

[russycarps]

Doves definitely requested headlining JPT in 2009 rather than playing lower down one of the bigger stages

They put in a storming set too, I think I'd rather SFA played there than the park on reflection

[Bisque]

Tangent:

Does anyone own a super furry animal?

[Badlands]

Been making a setlist in my head this evening. I don't ask much other than Wherever I Lay My Phone, Ice Hockey Hair, Mountain People and Man Don't Give a Fuck (with Fagen on backing vox after a mid afternoon Pyramid set).

Edited April 9, 2015 by Badlands

[Brave Sir Robin]

Been making a setlist in my head this evening. I don't ask much other than Wherever I Lay My Phone, Ice Hockey Hair, Mountain People and Man Don't Give a Fuck (with Fagen on backing vox after a mid afternoon Pyramid set).

Ha ha, not likely after all the trouble they had getting him to agree to the use of the sample in the first place, but would be ace!

[bamber]

My New Favourite thing ever.

[jcd_lowe]

My New Favourite thing ever.

The T4 crowd - bless 'em! They must've had no idea that was the best thing they saw that day!

[Scotrsman]

Furries have just announced for this festival in Spain on the 3rd-5th of July. Surely Nailed on for Glasto.

http://www.en.vidafestival.com/line-up/

[The Placid Casual]

My local rag said they're confirmed for shows in Bangor and Wrexham. Does anyone know anything about this? Seeing them in my hometown would be brilliant.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Nothing from @OneEyedBear, which is my usual SFA news source.

[Brave Sir Robin]

YES!!!!

[neil999]

they wont clash them with suede will they?..will they?? please

[GlastoSimon]

they wont clash them with suede will they?..will they?? please

[Wooderson]

SFA the big standout for me. Unmissable.

[Alan_C]

Where would they play? 3rd down on Other, headline Park? Great booking.

[JAlexander191]

Seeing them twice this summer now!!! Superb booking.

[Scotrsman]

Furries will make the festival for me, coming over from Oz and get to see one of my all time favourite bands at my favourite place on the planet. You could say I'm rather stoked right now!!!

[FuzzyDunlop]

After my SFA education of the last few weeks, I am very pleased with this.

I'll be all over this one