Rise of the Super Furry Animals tells the story of the greatest psychedelic pop band of our time.Welsh speakers with a lust for global communication, the Super Furry Animals shot to fame on Creation Records and found that, thanks to the record sales of label-mates Oasis, they suddenly had a vast budget to play with. Wasting no time, they bought an army tank and equipped it with a techno sound-system, caused national security alerts with 60-foot inflatable monsters, went into the Colombian jungle with armed Guerrilla fighters, and drew up plans to convert an aircraft carrier into a nightclub.Yet SFA's crazed adventures only tell half the story. By mixing up electronic beats, surf rock, Japanese culture and more, the band recorded some of the most acclaimed albums of the millennium, all the while documenting the mobile phone revolution in their uniquely surreal way.Written with the band’s own participation and housed in a jacket designed by Pete Fowler, the man behind some of SFA’s most iconic album covers, this is the remarkable story of their ascent to fame.
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Copyright
Dedication
AUTHOR’S NOTE
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
PROLOGUE
FURRY FILE: GRUFF
FURRY FILE: DAF
FURRY FILE: BUNF
FURRY FILE: GUTO
FURRY FILE: CIAN
EPILOGUE
Footnotes. Prologue
Chapter Two: Festival time / The wildest man in North Wales / Heavy metal hoax / Ffa Coffi Pawb
Chapter Ten: Painting demons / Bouncy castle licence / S4C on the attack / Overtaken by a wheel
Chapter Fourteen: Taekwondo music / Love letter to El Niño / Das Koolies
Chapter Fifteen: Placid Casual, Acid Casuals / Bear in a vice / Gods and monsters
Chapter Seventeen: Recovered histories / The Roman road / Smoking goats / Pop strike / America
Chapter Seventeen: Recovered histories / The Roman road / Smoking goats / Pop strike / America
Chapter Twenty: Wasteland Gods / Travels in a space buggy / Pizza trippin’
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THANKYOUS
About the Publisher
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To Marianne and Acorn
Title Page
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‘Well … we’ll just have to drive up to the police then. Maybe they’ll be nice. In fact, I have definitely heard that the police are nice around here.’
As John said those last words, a strange smell began leaking into their compartment. Ian looked confused for a second, then suddenly terrified – as a trickle of smoke wafted up his nose. John jumped up and pulled back the curtains, but he couldn’t see the passengers: the dope smoke was too thick.
