SFA - Ithaca 2008

Super Furry Animals, live in Ithaca, New York, 22nd February 2008

Originally signed to Welsh indie label Ankst, a rather legendary label around these parts having helped out great Welsh acts such as Cerys Matthews, Gorkis Zygotic Mynci, Llwybr Llaethog and Los Campesinos! (The exclamation is part of their name, not over exhuberance on my part), SFA reached the masses when signed to the fledgling (and now defunct, unlike Ankst) Creation Records, before setting up their own label Placid Casual, a title often used in various forms by the boyos, though they now release their records via Rough Trade I guess they lack the organisation to release albums worldwide, but they sure manage to knock out the albums, twelve in twelve years.

01. Slow Life
02. Rings Around The World
03. The Gateway Song/Run-Away
04. Golden Retriever
05. Do Or Die
06. Neo Consumer
07. Northern lights
08. Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir
09. She's Got Spies
10. Earth 1/Zoom
11. Receptacle For The Respectable
12. into the Night
13. Earth 2/Baby Ate My Eightball
14. God! Show Me Magic
15. Calimero!
16. Hello Sunshine
17. The Man Don't Give A Fuck
18. Earth 3/Keep The Cosmic Trigger Happy

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SFA Ithaca 2008

Super Furry Animals, Dublin 2005

Super Furry Animals, live at the Olympia Theatre Dublin, September 27th 2005

This show was recorded (excellently by Johnky, his bootleg list is available here) during the Love Kraft tour, and features mainly tracks from the album as well as Phantom Power and Rings Around The World releases. It opens with a touch of Gruffs humour (and Bunfs I assume, being the DJ of the band), as the theme to the Rocky movies blasts out as they take the stage, then later shows a bit of the same, though with a touch of rebellion, as Bill Hicks calls out "All governments are liars and murderers", not sure which show that's from, but I'm pretty certain it was a reaction to the Koresh/Waco incident.

A couple of small points about SFA.
1) They should be bigger than they are.
2) Why do these new bands get so much love for using (nu)rave in their music? SFA have done it for years, and to a much higher standard too. Stupid fads!

01. Intro
02. Intro - Rocky Theme
03. International Language Of Screaming
04. Hello Sunshine
05. Zoom
06. Atomic Lust
07. The Horn
08. Ohio Heat
09. Run Christian Run
10. Cloudberries
11. Frequency
12. Ice Hockey Hair
13. Recepticle For The Respectable
14. Slow Life
15. Slow Life cont.
16. Juxtaposed With U
17. Lazrerbeam
18. Rings Around The World
19. Do Or Die
20. Something For The Weekend
21. Drygioni
22. The Man Don't Give A Fuck
23. The Man Don't Give A Fuck cont.