Super Furry Animals!

[eFestivals]

Personally think they're big enough to headline the Other Stage. Would be a triumphant return!

last time I saw them they were headlining a festival with around 4,000 people there, so I reckon you might be over-playing it.

Mind you, it's the same for James, too.

[neil999]

If they headline the park, we'd have to have an efests meet there

shame russy wont be ablE to maKe it...he'll be at foo fighters(handing out leaflets saying 'THIS BAND IS TERRIBLE, PLEASE GO ELSEWHERE FOR YOUR OWN SAKES')

OR SIMILAR

[Mardy]

strange really, cos Gruff is doing well enough with the current stuff. He seems engaged with it, and happy with it. Getting back together doesn't really make a lot of sense, on the face of it.

[michael eavis' beard]

If they headline the park, we'd have to have an efests meet there

Shouldn't take too much effort!

[neil999]

last time I saw them they were headlining a festival with around 4,000 people there, so I reckon you might be over-playing it.

Mind you, it's the same for James, too.

jp or a park? whats the difference in capacity? always thought the parks capacity was a difficult one to gauge..

[eFestivals]

shame russy wont be ablE to maKe it...he'll be at foo fighters(handing out leaflets saying 'THIS BAND IS TERRIBLE, PLEASE GO ELSEWHERE FOR YOUR OWN SAKES')

OR SIMILAR

similar being "he'd bottle it"?

[neil999]

strange really, cos Gruff is doing well enough with the current stuff. He seems engaged with it, and happy with it. Getting back together doesn't really make a lot of sense, on the face of it.

££££££££?

[russycarps]

strange really, cos Gruff is doing well enough with the current stuff. He seems engaged with it, and happy with it. Getting back together doesn't really make a lot of sense, on the face of it.

Well he's done this american interior thing to death now so I presume he wants a new project. May as well get the band back together, it's not like they all fell out. I would rather be in a band than go solo I think.

[Space Shanty]

jp or a park? whats the difference in capacity? always thought the parks capacity was a difficult one to gauge..

It's pretty small I'd have thought.

A few thousand, although I suppose it depends how far back you consider part of the field capacity... if that makes any sense!

[The Placid Casual]

Shouldn't take too much effort!

I would honestly shout, 'WHO HERE IS ON EFESTS?!'

[michael eavis' beard]

last time I saw them they were headlining a festival with around 4,000 people there, so I reckon you might be over-playing it.

Don't see them being massively less popular that Portishead for example

[CaledonianGonzo]

Difficult one to place. Gruff headlined The Park on his todd a couple of years back, but apparently it was tumbleweeds. It'd be my preference - probably. Though obviously not clashing with someone incredible headlining elsewhere.

[The Placid Casual]

Nah, I'm afraid Portishead are far more popular than the Super Furries

[eFestivals]

I would honestly shout, 'WHO HERE IS ON EFESTS?!'

the traditional calling sign for other efesters - © glastonbury-festival.co.uk 1998 - is "board".

[admscott]

Super Furry Animals have completely passed by me. Any recommendations for a beginner?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Nah, I'm afraid Portishead are far more popular than the Super Furries

As much a rarity value thing as anything, probably. SFA toured incessantly for a decade and were pretty prolific, whereas Portishead left people wanting more.

[russycarps]

Super Furry Animals have completely passed by me. Any recommendations for a beginner?

radiator/fuzzy logic/guerilla/rings around the word

take your pick really, they are all good.

[The Placid Casual]

As much a rarity value thing as anything, probably. SFA toured incessantly for a decade and were pretty prolific, whereas Portishead left people wanting more.

Just in general too. Social media may not be the best thing to use as an example at times, but the amount of interest in Portishead eclipses the interest in SFA. Maybe the young 'uns prefer Portishead to SFA though, which I understand

[admscott]

radiator/fuzzy logic/guerilla/rings around the word

take your pick really, they are all good.

Thanks! You just planned my evening for me.

[ClementsMike]

I was hoping to see the return of SFA. Is the renion linked with Howard Marks?

I think he often quoted them to be his fave band, and they are reuniting for a fundraiser/awareness gig for him/his illness, I 'think'.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Shows how out of touch I am. As much as I can't really imagine the pop kids getting down to Slow Life, I'd have thought that the same also held true for the third Portishead album.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I was hoping to see the return of SFA. Is the renion linked with Howard Marks?

I think he often quoted them to be his fave band, and they are reuniting for a fundraiser/awareness gig for him/his illness, I 'think'.

All of the members will be there bar Guto - so even if something ends up happening onstage I dunno if that is the SFA event or events that seems to be happening.

[michael eavis' beard]

Just in general too. Social media may not be the best thing to use as an example at times, but the amount of interest in Portishead eclipses the interest in SFA. Maybe the young 'uns prefer Portishead to SFA though, which I understand

Even the interest in Gruff Rhys' eclipses SFAs if you use social media as a yard stick. SFA have pretty much been dormant since the rise of Twitter et al.

[ThomThomDrum]

If this happens I will be made up.

I cant believe its nearly 8 years since the last time I saw them live.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Even the interest in Gruff Rhys' eclipses SFAs if you use social media as a yard stick. SFA have pretty much been dormant since the rise of Twitter et al.

It's blocked here so I can't check, but their official website is still - pretty much - Hey Venus! vintage.

http://www.superfurry.com/