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News about Welsh bands Get all the latest Welsh band news delivered to your inbox as a newsletter! - Click the button to join the group Looking for Welsh gigs? Visit ffarout.com and check out the Welsh gig calendar. This news was added (despite crashing computers) on 25 July 2001 at 11.10pm London Welsh band SkinTrade play the Dublin Castle, Camden Town, on 19th August. Diffiniad are calling it a day after ten years of getting people to strut their funky stuff. They play their last ever gig on 10 August 2001 at Maes B, supported by Pep Le Pew. Diffiniad will release a greatest hits album containing all their most popular tunes and five brand new tracks at the end of this year. Tommy and the Chauffeur will play this year's big weekend festival in Cardiff city centre on Friday 3rd August. It is, of course, free and held in front of the museum. Also appearing on the night are Tetra Splendour, Lost Prophets and Gorkys Zygotic Mynci. Tommy and the Chauffeur will be on stage at 7.30pm. On the third Monday of September, Tommy and the Chauffeur will be releasing a new EP. The lead track will be the sprawling and anthemic 'Kids' Chorus' and it will be backed by three other tracks which have yet to be decided on but will almost certainly include the songs 'London' and 'You're Surrounded. It will be released on Boobytrap Records (not the singles club) and will not be a subscriber single, it will simply be available in the shops. The cancelled Catatonia gig at Cambridge Corn Exchange, due to take place on 30 July, has now been re-scheduled to Friday 28 September. Thanks to Robert Davies for this info. link2wales is the biggest encyclopaedic insight to the alternative North Wales music scene and includes a streaming radio show & gig guide & live & recorded reviews. fantastic super foofs play the Barfly, Cardiff, on Tuesday 7th August - on stage at 9pm. This year's Pigstock festival will be bigger than ever. Taking place at the Plas Pigot country club, Ruthin Road, Denbigh on Friday August 3 and Saturday August 4, it has already confirmed the following bands: € CABAN € CARGO CULT SOUND SYSTEM € DAVE ONIONS (KA`ENOBI) € EPITAFF € MAHONEY € PAUL CLAXTON € THE JOURNEYMAN € POCKET VENUS € CARBONARI € GIRO GYPSIES € EMILY GRESHAM € FUDGED € LATE BARS € BABYLON LEAF € STRAITJACKET € SARAH DAVIES € SUNRAIN € BIG BUSINESS Tickets cost £4 for Friday, £7 for Saturday and a 2 day pass is only £10. Admission is free to children under 10. More details on Pigstock are available by calling 01745 816318 or visiting the web site at www pigstock.co.uk Anweledig are hoping to release their new single on 4th August - "Ehangu" with the two B-Sides "Lowe Alpine" and another track whose name has not been announced. The single will be on sale at the Eisteddfod and will then be available to buy in shops the following week. To find out about forthcoming Anweledig dates visit anweledig.com. Newsletter from Stiff Kittens: "Stiff Kittens the up and coming Welsh Rock Act and the last band ever to play Wembley Stadium last, first, were recently confirmed to support FEEDER the up and coming Welsh Rock Act (who have recently scored several top ten singles and a top five album) at the Ross-on-Wye International Music Festival*. In true Rock n Roll fashion though plan A went south and there’s now insufficient time to soundcheck both bands following a performance by the Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, no less. All is not lost though as, after much brow beating and gnashing of teeth, a cunning plan has been hatched: The band have been rescheduled to play at a local venue, prior to the Feeder show on the main festival site, and not content with that they will play another highly charged set after Feeder with sound and booze flowing until 1am. The boyz from Feeder will be duly invited and who knows what may occur Thursday 23rd August 2001 8pm Stiff Kittens will perform a Free 1hr set at the Prince of Wales, Ross 10pm FEEDER perform as scheduled at in the Main Tent @ Ross Festival 11.30 pm Stiff Kittens perform a second, different set at the Prince of Wales Doors 7pm, limited to 180 capacity, arrive early. Bar open until 1am, entry charge £2 after 10pm Feeder tickets available in advance from the festival office on 01989 563 330 For information on Stiff Kittens call Absolute Marketing on 01989 767 868 or e-mail info@tourdates.co.uk *Also on the bill this year are Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, Atomic Kitten (no relation), The Honeyz, Lulu, Hot House Flowers, The Bluetones, Midge Ure, Eddi Reader, Billie Jo Spears, and Vanessa Mae. For further info go to: www.festival.org.uk or call 01989 563 330." This news was added on 24 July 2001 at 7.05pm Super Furry Animals have received their first Technics Mercury Prize Shortlist for their latest album Rings Around The World. Rings Around The World, which is released this week on Epic Records, joins a shortlist that includes Radiohead, Elbow, Basement Jaxx, Gorillaz and PJ Harvey. The shortlist was chosen from an entry of over 180 albums by British and Irish artists. Last year’s prize was won by Badly Drawn Boy’s ‘The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast’. The winner of the 2001 Technics Mercury Music Prize will be announced at the Mercury Prize Show on Tuesday, 11th September. For the first time this year the event will be broadcast by Channel 4 with a special 90-minute programme to be screened on Wednesday, 12th September. As in previous years the Mercury Prize show will also be broadcast on Radio 1. Rings Around The World becomes the first studio album to be released simultaneously on DVD. The format features 18 exclusive films commissioned for the project, as well as sixteen remixes of the album’s tracks, a photo gallery and web links. Super Furry Animals tour the UK in September and October. This news was added on 15 July 2001 at 10.15pm Catatonia's forthcoming gig at Sheffield Octogon on July 22nd has just been cancelled. No reason has yet been given for the cancellation. They are playing a mini Festival at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium on August 25th. Thanks to Brian Wright for this information. This news was added on 14 July 2001 at 1.30pm A recent Anweledig football match, the semi-final of the Inter Quarries Championship, ended in a shock defeat for the outside favourites Anweledig F.C. (also known as Camelod Fflat). Final score: Anweledig F.C. 4 -v- 9 Blaenau Rugby Club Singer Ceri and guitarist Gai picked up the goals for Anweledig. Percussionist Sunshine Dan would have added to the team, but unfortunately he was on the sidelines nursing an injury he'd picked up mid-season - though he was raising the Anweledig spirits slapping that bongo harder than ever before! There was a dug-out full of bongos and strange percussion instruments, which the people of Blaenau all bashed away at. Not your normal football match! Although the band were knocked out at this late stage, they will be appearing at the Final to perform a live percussion set from the sidelines. The Inter Quarries Final lineup is Blaenau Rugby Club -v- Porthmadog. Thanks to the anweledig.com webmaster, Marc Colclough, for this information. Pep Le Pew have added more dates to their summer gig schedule, which currently looks like this: 18 July - Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, London - with Llwybr Llaethog, Anweledig and Estella 19 July - Sam's Bar, Cardiff - with The Contrast and Driftwood 3 August - Paradox, Caernarfon 9 August - Y Venue, Rhuthin - with MC Mabon and Dau Cefn 10 August - Maes B, Denbigh - with Diffiniad 18 August - Miri Madog, Porthmadog - with Llwybr Llaethog, Anweledig, Gogz, Nar, Alcatraz, Teflon Monkey, Zabrinski and many more Pep Le Pew will also support Tystion at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, on 27 October. Not exactly "news", but just in case you missed this info elsewhere: Following the audacious success of their Furrymania weekends in June, Super Furry Animals will undertake their first full UK tour for nearly two years in September and October. The dates, performed in total surround sound once more, start in Southampton on September 26th, take in a show at the Brixton Academy and culminate on Friday 12th October at the Cardiff International Arena, the venue the band famously `mashed up' in December 1999. Full tour dates follow: SEPTEMBER: TOWN/VENUE PRICE BOX OFFICE Wed 26th Southampton Guildhall £14 023 8063 2601 Thu 27th Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall £14 01303 253 193 Fri 28th Bristol Colston Hall £14 0117 922 3686 Sun 30th Birmingham Academy £14 0870 903 2222 OCTOBER: Mon 1st Nottingham Rock City £14 01159 588 484 Tue 2nd London Brixton Academy £16 020 7771 2000 Fri 5th Aberdeen Music Hall £14 0141 389 8383 Sat 6th Edinburgh Corn Exchange £14 0141 389 8383 Sun 7th Leeds University £14 01132 455 570 Tue 9th Liverpool Royal Court £14 0151 709 4321 Wed 10th Norwich UEA £14 01603 764 764 Thu 11th Cambridge Corn Exchange £14 01223 357 351 Fri 12th Cardiff CIA £16 029 2022 4488 24 hr Credit Card Hotline 0115 912 9000 Ticket go on sale on Monday 16th July 2001. Fans are advised to check details with the venues. Super Furry Animals' only UK/Ireland festival appearance takes place at Witnness, nr. Dublin on Sunday August 5th - they headline the `Rising' Stage. Super Furry Animals release their fifth studio album on 23rd July 2001. Entitled `Rings Around The World' it will be released simultaneously on DVD - a `first' for the music industry. `Rings Around The World' has already met with widespread critical praise, being regarded in some quarters as one of the most important record releases of the year. Check out ringsaroundtheworld.co.uk for more about the project. The first single to be taken from it, `Juxtapozed With U' (released on July 9th) becomes the band's 14th Top 20 hit. MC Mabon - backed by Rocket Goldstar - will play the Hope And Anchor, 207 Upper Street, Islington, London on 26 July 2001. They takes to the stage at 9.30-10pm. Tickets cost £5 or £4 with a flyer - call Bugbear Promotions on 0208 806 2668 for more details. MC Mabon's second album, The Hunt For Meaning, will be released on 23 July by Ankstmusik Records and is available through Shellshock Distribution - those wishing to buy the album by mail order can do so for £10.00 plus £1.50 P&P from the Ankst website. R-BENNIG have reformed "A5", an eccentric combo of early 90's welsh music. News is on www.r-bennig.co.uk. A5 have just begun working on the TAMMY JONES remix (Welsh late 60's crooner who was on CBS). The Eclipse will have their track ‘Scared’ (available at www.theeclipseweb.com) featured on the soundtrack to the new S4C drama ‘The House’. The song is also going to be used on 20,000 new Philips Promotion CDs to be distributed to Philips retailers around the world. The band have just completed a radio session and have also been receiving help from Smiths legend Johnny Marr and Inspirals frontman Tom Hingley and are looking to put out their debut single later this year. Pencampwriaeth gitar awyr cyntaf Cymru First all wales air guitar championships @ TJ's Casnewydd / Newport Dydd Sul 29ain o Orffenaf / Sunday 29th july DJ DISASTRONAUT + Labordy Swn Cont... SJ's/DJ's : Llwybr Llaethog Sound System, Dave Handford, SJ OHM, BomBoomBomB,Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front. info: fitamin_un@ntlworld.com Strawberry Blondes play the Dublin Castle, Camden Town, London, on 18 July. This news was added on 8 July 2001 at 1.45pm At last night's Mini Madog in Porthmadog, where the excellent Anweledig played an incredible headline set, we picked up some flyers for Miri Madog and can report that the final lineup is as follows: Friday night, 17 August 2001 - Maharishi, Caban Mangre, Strymdingars Saturday night, 18 August 2001 - Radio Cymru stage: Evans, Zenfly, Nar, Texas Radio Band, Pep Le Pew, Rhian Mostyn, Quidest, Dipsomaniacs Saturday night, 18 August 2001 - Main stage: Anweledig, Terris, Gogz, Teflon Monkey, Sammo Hung, Zabrinski, Llwybr Llaethog, The Benjamins, Carlotta, Alcatraz, Afternoons, Christopher Rees Tickets cost £7 for the Friday night and £12 for the Saturday night. Camping is included in the price of the tickets, which are on sale from Clwb Chwaraeon Madog, Porthmadog, on 01766 512 150. This news was added on 1 July 2001 at 11.15pm Super Furry Animals are gigging in October. News has filtered in of a gig in London on Tuesday 2nd October at Brixton Academy. Tickets cost £16 in advance from 0120771 2000, credit card hotline 020 7287 0932. Stargreen 020 7743 8932, Way Ahead 020 7403 3331, Ticketmaster 020 7344 4040. Rough Trade shops (Neals Yd and Talbot Rd), Rhythm Records (Camden) and selected HMV, Ticketmasster and Tower Records throughout London and the S/E. Buy on-line www.gigsandtours.com . Tickets subject to booking fee. Thanks to James at nopassingphase for this info. This news was added on 29 June 2001 at 1.30pm Super Furry Animals' interactive website ringsaroundtheworld.co.uk, which complements the forthcoming album and DVD, is now up and running. Features include message boards, track details, an opportunity to provide your reviews of the Furrymania gigs and much more. Juventus stars invited to sample Welsh culture Cymdeithas yr Iaith have offered to play host to the young international stars of Juventus Football Club at the National Eisteddfod Field, and have invited them to call in at a Welsh-language rock concert after the match in Rhyl on Thursday, August 9th. Juventus will be participating in an international Under-21 Football Tournament at Rhyl F.C. Football Ground during the Eisteddfod week,and will be playing Aston Villa at Belle Vue on the Thursday evening. During the same week,Cymdeithas yr Iaith will be holding nightly Welsh-language rock and folk concerts at the Celebrities Club at Hotel Marina Rhyl. The veteran Welsh rock star, Meic Stevens, will be heading the line-up on that evening. One of the Cymdeithas organisers, Toni Schiavone - who himself has family links with Italy - said, "We shall well understand if a late night of chips and beer in Rhyl does not quite fit in with the Juventus dietary regime! You never know - they might be able to call in briefly and everyone at the concert would give them a great reception. "We are more hopeful that they will be able to stopover at the National Eisteddfod Field at Denbigh en route from their hotel near Chester to Rhyl Football Ground. We have offered to Rhyl F.C. that our young members could meet them and show them around the Eisteddfod so as to sample living Welsh culture. "We shall also be offering special £10 tickets for Eisteddfodwyr on Thursday August 9th which will include return coach travel to Rhyl,admission to the Juventus/Aston Villa game at 7.15pm at Belle Vue and admission to the Meic Stevens gig at Celebrities afterwards. Many Welsh people support JUVE through the S4C programme 'Sgorio' and the combination of Juventus and Meic Stevens will prove to be a great attraction." Those wishing to read about Welsh language bands, Cymdeithas Yr Iaith's gigs at the Eisteddfod, and the campaign to introduce a .cym suffix to internet addresses will find these sites useful: gwe.ymgyrch.com bandiaucymraeg.com cerddcymraeg steddfod2001 In other Cymdeithas Yr Iaith news, here is a list of gigs that Cymdeithas have arranged for this year's Eisteddfod: NEUADD Y DRE - DINBYCH [Denbigh Town Hall] Nos Sadwrn 4ydd o Awst/Saturday 4th August: PARTI DECHRE'R STEDDFOD/opening night party of the Eisteddfod gyda/with Anweledig, Chouchen, Mwsog, - £5 Y TARW - DINBYCH [The Bull, Denbigh] Nos Lun 6ed o Awst/Monday 6th August Meic Stevens, Epitaph, Quidest, + DJ's gorau'r dre!/the town's best DJs! - £4 Nos Fawrth 7fed o Awst/Tuesday 7th August Zabrinski, Gogz, + DJ's - £4 Nos Fercher 8fed o Awst/Wednesday 8th August Estella, Paccino, Alkatraz £4.50 Nos Iau 9fed o Awst/Thursday 9th August Maharishi, Metamorffig, Cacan wy Experience - £4.50 Nos Wener 10fed o Awst/Friday 10 August BANDIAU RASP/bands from the label RASP - Doli, Vanta, Bois Bach! - £4 Nos Sadwrn 11fed o Awst/Saturday 11th August Geraint Lovgreen, Evans - £5 CLWB YR ENWOGION - RHYL Nos Lun 6ed o Awst/Monday 6 August "NOSON SOUTHERN COMFORT"/Southern Comfort Night Bob Delyn, Cajun Denbo - £5 Nos Fawrth 7fed o Awst/Tuesday 7th August Geraint Lovgreen, Caban, Zenfly - £5 Nos Fercher 8fed o Awst/Wednesday 8th August ETIFEDDIAETH AR WERTH/Inheritance For Sale - Tecwyn Ifan, Linda Healy, Ifor ap Glyn, Dilwyn Morgan - £5 Nos Iau 9fed o Awst/Thursday 9th August Meic Stevens a'r Band, Chouchen, Daffodil Hwwwligans - £5 Nos Wener 10fed o Awst/Friday 10th August Celt, Steve Eaves - £6 Nos Sadwrn 11fed o Awst/Saturday 11 August Trip Ysgol Sul i'r Rhyl/Sunday School Trip To Rhyl - MELYS, Tedi Cyffredin, Dipsomaniacs, Johnny Panic! - £5 Y VENUE - RHUTHUN Nos Iau 9fed o Awst/Thursday 9th August MC Mabon, Dau Gefn, Pep Le Pew, + DJ's - £5 Nos Wener 10fed o Awst/Friday 10th August STWFF Llwybr Llaethog, + Gwesteion arbennig/special guests (Criw Anweledig) (Lauren Estella) a mwy/and more! - £5 There will also be Maes B gigs this year at the Eisteddfod but these are not organised by Cymdeithas Yr Iaith. For all your Welsh gig dates check ffarout.com Anweledig tour dates JUNE 29th - Pontypridd, "Parti Ponty" (Shown on S4C) 30th - Blaenau Ffestiniog, Rugby Club (last date on their "Gweld Y Llun" tour as advertised on Radio Cymru, and will be MAD - apparently) JULY 3rd - Castell Emlyn, (Radio Cymru gig) 4th - Crymych, Ysgol Pretheli (Radio Cymru gig) 5th - Liverpool, Zanzibar 7th - Porthmadog, Sports Club (Radio Cymru gig) 11th - Uned 5 (House band on S4C programme) 12th - Uned 5 (House band on S4C programme) 14th - London, Lewisham "Peoples Festival" 18th - London, Bull & Gate 28th - Nefyn, "Cae Yn Nefyn" Festival 29th - Llithfaen, Y Vic AUGUST 4th - Denbigh, Town Hall 8th - Denbigh, Afternoon on the Maes 10th - Ruthin, Y Venue (Llwybr Llaethog Night) 11th - Denbigh, Maes B (Headline) 18th - Porthmadog, "Miri Madog" Festival (Headline) 22nd - TOUR OF BRITTANY 27th - TOUR OF BRITTANY ENDS (7 gigs in 5 days!) SEPTEMBER 1st - Llangefni, Town Festival 8th - Bala, Festival Apparently more dates are to be confirmed, however singer Ceri says the band may have a rest from gigging from mid-September for a while... can you blame them? Issue 10 of Welsh Bands Weekly will feature an exclusive interview with Anweledig, carried out in the magical surroundings of their hidden valley home... more details soon! Fantastic Super Foofs are playing in Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, on Monday July 2nd at 10.30pm. The band are soon to start recording their debut single at Le Mons. The single will be relased on Floating Toast Records in October. This news was added on 27 June 2001 at 2.15pm Doc Savage will be playing at the re-opening night for Caerphily Pulsars on Friday 29th June. This will also be the final gig with John Zero on drums. Everyone bringing him a "sorry you're leaving" card will receive an "I'm Great" badge. It costs £4 on the door and there are cheap drinks on offer, and a pound off the entrance price with a Savage Flyer. Talkshow have the following dates booked: Saturday 7th July: Rhondda Sports Centre, Rhondda, Wales: Talkshow with the Crocketts. Sunday 8th July: Bute Park, Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales: Talkshow with Tetra Splendour. Saturday 14th July: Blackwood Miners Institute, Blackwood, Wales: Talkshow with Terris. Talkshow's new triple A side CD, GM9, is released on July 2nd. Talkshow are also playing at the Give The Kid A Chance festival which takes place at Rhondda Sports Centre on Saturday 7 July between 4pm and midnight. Arranged to raise funds for the Ty Hafan Childrens' Hospice, the day promises to be the Rhondda event of the year. The Crocketts will be headlining the festival and they'll be giving the audience a preview of their show before they perform with Stereophonics at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, in the latter's 'Have a nice day' event. Other artists performing at the festival include Brychan Llyr, Lear, Luna Pins, Rita, Sal, Deke, Flower Killers, Enclave, Flailing Wail, Bopser, Carpet Fleas and Genghis Crime. The TRAWSFYNYDD LO-FI LIBERATION FRONT are on the net: click here to listen to the mp3's. This news was added on 20 June 2001 at 1.30pm Pep Le Pew have gigs lined up on the following dates: 18 July - London Bull & Gate 9 August - Y Venue, Rhuthun 10 August - Maes B, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Denbigh 18 August - Miri Madog, Porthmadog More gigs to be added soon. Tommy and the Chauffeur plus young upstarts THE SOFT PARADE play The Barfly, Cardiff, on Saturday 30th June at 8pm. The very first Monday of September Tommy and the Chauffeur will be releasing a new EP. The lead track will be the sprawling and anthemic 'Kids' Chorus' and it will be backed by three other tracks which have yet to be decided on. It will be released on Boobytrap Records (not the singles club) and will not be a subscriber single, it will simply be available in the shops. There is a rumour circulating that TATC will be opening this year's Big Weekend festival in Cardiff on 3rd August. They're also in the studio at the moment putting together about a dozen or so songs, some of which will appear on various things, some of which won't. RocketGoldStar are currently lining up a very interesting few months with the much anticipated launch of their debut album 'Soft Eject' on September 3rd. Before this on August 20th they have their brand new EP 'Steamboat to Nowhere' ready for launch. The band is now nationally established with live XFM and Radio 1 sets in the bag. European dates are set to follow in the autumn. They have also performed the backing tracks for McMabon's new album 'The hunt for Meaning'. They have also completed a video for 'Steamboat to Nowhere' which is set to appear as second feature to acclaimed Mexican flick 'Amores Perros' for its cinema run in Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre. Both releases are set to come out on the FFvinyl label's new subsiduary Hecla. The band are appearing at the Llangollen Fringe festival on July 8th. This news was added on 15 June 2001 at 3.25pm Manic Street Preachers warm up for their Reading Festival/Leeds Festival Main Stage Headline appearances on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of August with two shows: August 20th : Llandudno Conference Centre and August 23rd : Cardiff International Arena Tickets on sale 9am Saturday 16th June; Llandudno = £15.00 each available from the venue box office (01492 872000) and Way Ahead. Cardiff = £18.50 each available from the venue box office (029 2022 4488), Cardiff City Centre Ticketline (029 2023 0130)and Way Ahead (029 2064 4996 or 0115 912 9000). Llandudno will be their first North Wales gig in ten years. They are donating all profits from the Cardiff show to charity and are aiming to raise £25,000 for three designated organisations. Support for these dates will be Brave Captain. Manic Street Preachers first commercial release was “Motown Junk” in 1991. To celebrate ten years of Britain’s most legendary rockers, Channel 4 are screening Manic Street Preachers night on June 21st. It includes videos and another chance to see the inspirational “Our Manics In Havana” documentary and “All Back To Mine” with vocalist James Dean Bradfield. Currently in the charts with their twenty-sixth Top 40 single, “Ocean Spray”, The Manics have spent much of early 2001 abroad as sixth album, “Know Your Enemy”, is their most successful international album release to date. These will be their first British dates since the sold-out tour in March. This news was added on 14 June 2001 at 1.15pm Feeder's debut mini-album Swim is being re-released on 30th July as a full length album. New additions to include World Asleep, Rush, Pictures of Pain, Chicken on a Bone etc (possibly 2 Colours (first ep) versions) as well as the original tracks and live favourites like Sweet 16, WIT, and title track Swim. The mini-album is to be released to coincide with the summer festivals. The next single from Feeder's recent album Echo Park is Turn, released 2nd July. The video will be black and white, shot by the director who made Starsailor's Good Souls. There will be four new b sides: Come Back Around, Bring It Home, Bad Hair Day and San Diego , and enhanced footage on the making of Echo Park! Catatonia have added Nottingham Rock City (Jul 21st), Sheffield Octagon (Jul 22nd) and Manchester Academy (Jul 24th) to their tour. Thanks to Brian Wright for this news. 9xdead play The Rooms in Merthyr Tydfil this Saturday (16 June). They go on stage at 9.30pm and tickets cost £3.50. Call 01685 370 770 for further details. The latest additions to the Anweledig diary include: 14 July - The Peoples' Festival, Lewisham, London 22 July - Ty Newydd, Sarn (rearranged from 9 June) 7 August - Sports Club, Porthmadog (as a warm-up for Miri Madog) The band release their independent single Ehangu on 4 August. MP3 clips of Anweledig tracks will be available on anweledig.com soon. Stiff Kittens play the Rhyd-Y-Blew, Ebbw Vale, on Friday 15 June. They'll be playing tracks from their forthcoming third album, Our Purpose in Life Is Not To Please You which will be avaiable later this year. This news was added on 10 June 2001 at 11.45am Catatonia have announced some tour dates: The Academy, Birmingham - 25 July The Corn Exchange Cambridge - 30 July The Forum, London - 1 August Afon Lido Leisure Centre Port Talbot - 7 August Tickets are available from wayahead.com as well as other ticket outlets. Thanks to Dave Owens and the Catatonia discussion group for this info. Murry The Hump tour dates Murr The Hump have the following gigs lined up: Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach - Monday 11th June 2001 Sheffield Casbah - Tuesday 12th June 2001 Glasgow King Tuts - Thursday 14th June 2001 Exeter Cavern - Monday 18th June 2001 Derby Victoria - Tuesday 19th June 2001 London Upstairs @ Garage - Wednesday 20th June 2001 Barry RNLI Event - Saturday 20th June 2001 This news was added on 9 June 2001 at 10.30pm Pep Le Pew and Teflon Monkey are rumoured to be joining Anweledig, Terris, Big Leaves and Murry The Hump at this year's Miri Madog festival in North Wales. The festival, which will be held in Porthmadog Sports Club on 18 August, is one of the better Welsh festivals and has previously been headlined by Big Leaves and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci We're hoping to have more news of the festival's lineup and ticket availability soon - keep checking this page for details. The new MC Mabon double-A Side single People Are So Stupid/Route is set for release on 25 June through Shellshock Distribution. To hear the single visit Ankstmusik's website. The single is the first chance to hear tracks from the new English language concept album The Hunt For Meaning which will be released on 22 July - this highly ambitious album follows the adventures of Iago Prydderch as he rejects irony and Western metaphysyics on his hunt for meaning. Along the way he encounters aliens, disco divas, the devil, a rap relay team, the aristocracy, Chinese folk musicians and singing pigs before discovering the mysterious 'Fire Within'. This news was added on 7 June 2001 at 11.45am ANWELEDIG NEWS Anweledig, as usual, are keeping themselves extremely busy over the summer. Forthcoming Radio Cymru broadcasts of the band include one on 3 July from their performance at Castell Emlyn, and another on 7 July being broadcast from Porthmadog. The band release a new EP on 4th August on their own label, which is as yet unnamed. The EP contains the tracks Ehangu, Lowe Alpine and Sefyllfa Heb Ateb. The EP was recorded in May 2001 at Sylem Studios, Betws-y-Coed, famously owned by Welsh popsters Melys. An MP3 sample of the track(s) will be placed on anweledig.com shortly. Forthcoming live dates from Anweledig include: Two gigs on 18th August - one during the afternoon in Newtown in Mid Wales with Melys in an as-yet unknown venue, and then later that evening at the Miri Madog festival in Porthmadog, North Wales, which will also feature Terris and presumably Big Leaves. The Cae Yn Nefyn festival on 28 July, which is now happily back on after having been cancelled earlier in the year due to the foot and mouth crisis. A small tour of England is also being arranged with guests Llwybr Llaethog, Estella and Pep Le Pew. The only confirmed date at the time of writing is the one we previously reported - 18 July at the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, North London. For more specific details visit anweledig.com which is updated regularly. FEEDER NEWS (and lots of it!) Gran Turismo 3 is now set for release in June, while Sony make the final tweaks to make sure it’s in a class of its own. The music selected for Gran Turismo 3 is “from the third album and “b” sides from the singles.” In fact, one of the B-sides for 7 Days In The Sun is GT3’s title track, Just A Day. Feeder also did some tracks for the fisrt Gran Turismo which included sweet 16 shade tangerine and chicken on a bone. Grant's much-talked about remix of the new Mark B & Blade single was released last Monday. The remix is the A-side of the single by the British hip hop veterans and has been recieving heavy radio play. Not only has Grant remixed the track, but he has added the trademark Feeder guitar sound to the mix too, along with Jon's drumming. Needless to say it rocks! Tour dates: 16 Jun 2001 Imola Festival Italy 22 Jun 2001 Sound Arena Rock Switzerland 29 Jun 2001 Werchter Festival Belgium 30 Jun 2001 MTV Monster Mastership Skateboard Dortmund 1 Jul 2001 Roskilde Festival Denmark 8 Jul 2001 T in the Park Scotland 27 Jul 2001 Fuji Festival Japan 5 Aug 2001 Witnness Festival Dublin 17 Aug 2001 Bizzarre Festival Germany 18 Aug 2001 Gampel Festival Switzerland 25 Aug 2001 Festival Reading 26 Aug 2001 Festival Leeds The new single will be Turn - no release date as yet, but it's already been c-listed on the radio 1 playlist. Keep checking this page as we'll hopefully have some Feeder exclusives soon. WELSH BANDS AT READING/LEEDS Welsh bands playing at the Reading/Leeds weekender (24-27 August) include Manic Street Preachers, Feeder, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Terris. June's Boobytrap Singles Club release will be Huw Uno by Mclusky. It's about 'the Welsh music industry' says the band's manager. We know he's not Welsh but this really tickled us: Michael Jackson is rumoured to be playing the millennium stadium later this year! Murry The Hump have been confirmed as support for Deacon Blue's tour. For details of this tour and other Murry gigs visit their website: murrythehump.co.uk Mountain Men Anonymous have gigs at the Barfly, Cardiff, on 20 June and 25 September. Stiff Kittens have several gigs coming up: Sunday 10 June - Music In The Park, Pontypridd Park 15 June - Rhyd-y-Blew, Ebbw Vale 6 July - Checkmates, Caerphilly 13 July - The Oz Bar, Bridgewater, Somerset 28 July - Watchet Weekender, Watchet, Devon 5 August - Blackwood Miners' Institute 10 August - Bridgewater Beer Festival, Bridgewater, Somerset 8 September - The Yorkhouse, Minehead, Somerset 8 December - The Yorkhouse, Minehead, Somerset You can see exclusive photos of Stiff Kittens' recent acoustic gig at Wembley Stadium by visiting www.stiffkittens.co.uk Gorky's Zygotic Mynci play the Scala in Kings Cross, London, on 6 August with DJ support from The Delgados. Tickets are available from wayahead.com priced £10. Thanks to Joe for this info. This news was added on 2 June 2001 at 6pm Eisteddfod gigs announced Welsh Bands Weekly have received details of gigs arranged at this year's Eisteddfod Genedlaethol in Denbigh (August 4th-12th). Gigs have been arranged at four venues so far, but don't be surprised if more are added later. Here's the details we've got so far: Saturday 4th August Denbigh Town Hall: Anweledig/Chouchen/Mwsog - £5 Monday 6th August Maes B: Meic Stevens a'r Band/Epitaff/Quidest/+DJ's - £4 Enwogion, RHYL: Bob Delyn/Cajun Denbo - £5 Tuesday 7th August Maes B: Zabrinski/Gogz/+DJ's - £4 Enwogion, RHYL: Geraint Lovgreen/Caban - £5 Wednesday 8th August Maes B: Estella/Paccino/+DJ's - £4.50 Thursday 9th August Maes B: Maharishi/Metamorffig/+DJ's - £4.50 Enwogion, Rhyl: Meic Stevens a'r Band/Chouchen - £5 Y Venue, RUTHIN: MC Mabon/Dau Gefn/Pep Le Pew/+DJ's - £5 Friday 10th August Maes B: Doli/Vanta/Bois Bach!/+DJ's - £4.50 Y Venue, RUTHIN: Llwybr Llaethog + Very Special Guests/Anweledig/Estella - £5 Enwogion, Rhyl: Celt/Steve Eaves - £5 Saturday 11th August Enwogion, Rhyl: Melys/Tedi Cyffredin/Dipsomaniacs/Johnny Panic! - £5 Maes B: Geraint Lovgreen/Evans - £5 More details as we receive them. Llwybr Llaethog have confirmed that they will be playing the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, London, with Anweledig, Pep Le Pew and Estella on 18 July. Flipside are scheduled to play Barfly Cardiff on June 8th and are then taking some time off to hone up their new material. Infinity Chimps have a gig on 29 June at the Imperial Hotel in Llandudno. The gig is part of a film and music night organised by the Real Institute who have been showing films in Betws y Coed every month. TrAnSpOsEr's guitarist has gone to san francisco for 3 months so they will be live from late september. Also S4C have used their song "Inner.state" on a new drama Y Ty which being aired very soon. The band are also in the studio with electronic guru Ian gully, who famously salvaged a standard tune called "Push It" and made it into a world wide smash for a certain Salt n Pepa. He's overseeing all production duties. Due to election build up, it appears that the episode of This way Up, featuring Cerys Matthews and Larry Adler, is delayed by a week. Thanks to Margot Saint for this news. This news was added on 30 May 2001 at 1.30pm Proud Mary have been added to the support bill at Stereophonics' Cardiff Millennium Stadium gig on 21 July. It is reported that the stadium is also under consideration for staging September's Farm Aid gig, which aims to raise money for farmers affected by recent foot and mouth disease outbreaks. This from a recent Tommy And The Chauffeur newsletter: "Tommy and the Chauffeur Patrick Jones Teflon Monkey Rachel Treseize At the Hay On Wye festival. Saturday 2nd June. Starts at 8pm. The Globe Gallery. Newport Street. Tommy and the Chauffeur will perform an acoustic set. Huw Stephens will compere. Probably. NEW TOMMY AND THE CHAUFFEUR EP The very first Monday of September Tommy and the Chauffeur will be releasing a new EP. The lead track will be the sprawling and anthemic 'Kids' Chorus' and it will be backed by three other tracks which have yet to be decided on. It will be released on Boobytrap Records (not the singles club) and will not be a subscriber single, it will simply be available in the shops. That's right. Effort. We are sorry. If any of the above is untrue then we cannot be held responsible and there is a rumour circulating that TATC will be supporting The Soft Parade in the Barfly at the end of June." Anweledig are to be on Radio Cymru on 3 July. The band are adding gigs to their schedule at a rate of knots so if you want to know when they'll be playing near you, check their extremely groovy and just-updated website, anweledig.com (if this link appears not to work, just keep trying - they've been having server problems at anweledig.com recently). Stiff Kittens play Pontypridd Park on Sunday 10 June. A duet by Catatonia's diva vocalist Cerys Matthews and Larry Adler is being shown on "This Way Up" next Tuesday (5th June) on HTV. Thanks to Margot Saint for this news. This news was added on 20 May 2001 at 1.50pm Gorky's Zygotic Mynci are supporting The Raincoats at the !ueen Elizabeth Rooms, London Royal Festival Hall on Sunday June 10th, as part of the 2001 Meltdown Festival, curated by Robert Wyatt. For more info visit the Meltdown website or phone 020 7960 4242. Thanks to Joe for this info. Stiff Kittens are to make history as the last band to play at Wembley Stadium. They play a free gig there at 3pm on 22 May 2001. Anweledig are playing the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town, North London, on 18th July. Support comes from the amazing Pep Le Pew and equally wonderful Estella. Llwybr Llaethog may be on the bill as well, however they are still unconfirmed. Keep checking Anweledig's website for details. Debs and Lewis would like to thank Pep Le Pew and Anweledig for a fun-filled few days involving watching two North Wales sunrises, talking plenty of bollocks and repeated beautiful enunciation of the words Llanrwst, drws, guarantee, runway, hideous and Trawsfynydd. If you ever want an instant orgasm without having to touch your messy bits, just have a quick chat with either Ceri Cunnington or Aron Jones and you'll be well away! Prrrrrrrr... This news was added on 13 May 2001 at 11.15pm As previously reported on this site, a new biography of Catatonia is due for publication in just a few weeks' time. To Hell And Back With Catatonia by long-time WBW supporter Brian Wright, published by Firefly, will reach bookshops no later than 1st June 2001 and will cost £12.99. WBW is also hoping to sell copies by mail order - check here after 1st June for further details. Welsh Bands Weekly readers may remember Brian's story in issue 7 where he told how, having lost two close family members to cancer, he reached the depths of despair and tried to drink himself to death. One night in Cardiff his mission was interrupted by the appearance onstage of a then un-famous band fronted by a sexy, ballsy young woman whom Brian refers to as The Lady... To Hell And Back... is more than a biography of a band. It's a story of triumph over depression, a story of the effect Catatonia have had on one man's life, an indication that there is hope and that severe depression can be overcome. A quote from Welsh Bands Weekly appears on the front cover of the book. The quote used is: "Brian Wright is possibly the most qualified person to write a Catatonia biography, not counting the band members themselves!" Although not an "official" biography of Catatonia, members of the band have provided Brian with many facts and stories that have not appeared in any other publication [NME writers take note: this is what "exclusive" means]. An interview with Brian will appear in issue 10 of Welsh Bands Weekly, which is due to go on sale at the end of June. This news (although not strictly a story about a Welsh band) was added on 11 May 2001 at 2.20pm NME invent new definition of the word "exclusive" The UK's only remaining weekly music paper (and don't we fucking know it - for god's sake somebody get out there and challenge them), appears to have invented its own definition of the word "exclusive". The newspaper's website, NME.com, has taken recently to running "exclusive" stories about Welsh bands which turn out to only be exclusive if "exclusive" means "also available on every other music site on the internet". Examples that specifically spring to mind are the two SFA stories we ran recently, about the new album and the Furrymania festivals; we uploaded the album story a good three hours before nme.com did, yet their news of the album's release details was still listed on nme.com as "exclusive". The latest "exclusive" story the site is running is that Catatonia have changed the name of their album to "Paper, Scissors, Stone" - a story that we ran on this very site on 3 May. If you scroll down a bit you'll see that our story, which we don't pretend is "exclusive", came from the 27 April edition of the South Wales Echo! A word of advice on etiquette to NME.com writers: it is considered polite to quote your sources. When Welsh Bands Weekly borrows stories from NME.com, we credit you for it. Please afford us - and dotmusic.com and rockfeedback.com and superfurryanimals@yahoogroups.com and all the other sites you 'borrow' stories from - the same courtesy. Manners cost nothing. This news was added on 8 May 2001 at 11.59pm A quote from Welsh Bands Weekly will appear on the cover of a new biography of Catatonia. To Hell And Back With Catatonia by long time WBW supporter Brian Wright is to be published by the publishers Firefly in late May. Details of the book's price and availability will be uploaded to this page soon. More Catatonia news, this time courtesy of nme.com. The band are to play at this year's T In The Park festival. Click here: nme.com for details. Mo-ho-bish-o-pi or however the fuck you spell it are supporting King Adora at the Colchester Arts Centre this Saturday. For more details visit www.mohobishopi.com Tommy and the chauffeur will appear on tomorrow (Wednesday 9 May) night's pop factory. The show (which starts at 11.15pm on bbc2 wales) will feature:- Tommy and the Chauffeur (performing Having and Wanting and forthcoming single 'Kids' Chorus') Starsailor Alabama 3 Fun Loving Criminals Stereophonics. Pep Le Pew's debut single is to be released by independent label Fitamin Un on 21st May. The three tracks on the CD are: 1."Y Mwyafrif" 2."Y Mwyafrif [Clun Helcian Remix]" 3."Y Mwyafrif [Accappella]". Track 2 was re-mixed by Steffan Cravos (Tystion/Fitamin Un) and Pep Le Pew. To order a copy, send a cheque or postal order payable to "Beatbox Taffia" for £2.50 to Fitamin Un, 8 Stryd Tywysog Leopold, Caerdydd CF24 OHT, Cymru / Wales. For more details visit the Fitamin Un website: uk.oocities.com/beatboxtaffy or e-mail: fitamin@excite.com This news was added on 3 May 2001 at 2.30pm Stiff Kittens have gigs lined up at TA's, Blackwood, on 20 May and Callaghans, Marble Arch, on 22 May. According to the South Wales Echo dated Friday 27th April, Catatonia's new album is to be called Paper, Scissors, Stone, and the release date is July 16th. This is to be preceded by the first single Stone By Stone on July 2nd. Thanks to Margot Saint for this info. Following on from the success of last year's Livestock in Abercynon where over 2000 people attended, Woolyback Media Productions will be staging the magnificent return of 'LIVESTOCK 2001 - A MUSIC ODYSSEY', which will be held in a Marquee on Abercynon Rugby Club's pitch on Bank Holiday Monday, 28 May. The concert will again be in aid of Ty Hafan, the Children's Hospice in Wales, and is hoped to beat last year's figure of £2000 raised. Headlining this year's event are DODGY, Rhondda band TALKSHOW, plus Cynon Valley bands SAL, SERIT ONIN, L.C., FORMULA, ROOSTAR, LOST THE PLOT and ELEVATOR. Other bands include top acts such as AUGUST, LEAR, JADED, WALKER and MAJOR GUBBINS. In addition, the outdoor event will also include a Bucking Bronco, Laser Zap Zone, inflatable slide and bouncy castle! The venue has a limited capacity, and with the success of last year's event it is likely to sell out fast. Tickets are priced at £4.00, or £2.50 for under 16's (free for 5's and under), and can be purchased from the following outlets:- Abercynon Rugby Club Rainbow Records, Pontypridd Spiller's Records, Cardiff Red House Music, Aberdare Market Howell's Menswear, Mountain Ash Local businesses are invited to advertise and at the same time donate money towards Ty Hafan. Alternatively, donations can also be given towards the raffle (prizes for which include signed CD's & pictures, from the Spice Girls, Manics, Sterophonics, etc). For more information on any of the above email info@livestocklive.co.uk or visit the website: livestocklive.co.uk This news was added on 1 May 2001 at 11.45pm DJs from Pep Le Pew, the Porthmadog-based hip hop band, have been added to the bill at Woofstock. Members of the band will provide a reason to strut your stuff before and between live sets provided by Anweledig, Nar and 48F. Stereophonics have cancelled their US tour because singer Kelly Jones is ill. Diddums! Get well soon, Kelly! To find out more about this story, go to billboard.com. This news was added on 30 April 2001 at 2.45pm In anticipation of the release of their fifth album and first DVD 'Rings Around The World' Super Furry Animals will take over three UK cities for three weekends in June under the banner 'Furrymania'. The cities chosen are Manchester, Glasgow and London and the weekends' activities will include a gig played in surround sound, a screening of the DVD version of 'Rings Around The World' and club nights at which members of the band will DJ. Fans of the band are advised to look out for other special events happening during the weekends. Details as follows: Manchester Friday 15th - Evening Screening @ The Cornerhouse Cinema Late Club night @ University Cellar Bar Saturday 16th Evening Concert @ The Academy £13.50 adv Glasgow Friday 22nd Evening Screening @ Glasgow Film Theatre Late Club night @ Renfrew Ferry Saturday 23rd Evening Concert @ Barrowlands £13.50 London Friday 29th Evening Screening @ Notting Hill Electric Cinema Late Club night @ Bar Under Solo Saturday 30th Evening Concert @ The Forum £15 Admission to the screenings and club nights will cost £5, however there will be 100 wristbands available for each weekend which will guarantee the wearer entry into all events - this will cost £20 for Manchester and Glasgow and £25 for London. These special wristbands are only available via www.superfurry.com. All other tickets will be available from www.gigsandtours.com (Manchester and London) and www.gigsinscotland.com. 'Rings Around The World' will be the first album to be released on DVD as well as conventional audio formats ON THE SAME DAY - 16th July 2001. It will be preceded by a brand new single 'Juxtapozed With U' two weeks before on July 2. This news was added on 30 April 2001 at 12.50pm Internet gig booking site gigsandtours.com has been advertising two Super Furry Animals weekend events to take place in June. According to the site, the Furry Mania weekenders will take place in Manchester on 15-16 June and London on 29-30 June. Attractions (other than the obvious) include previews of SFA's forthcoming DVD Rings Around The World plus DJ sets by band members. For booking details visit gigsandtours.com. WBW are of course making every effort to confirm these details and will add further information as it comes in. This news was added on 29 April 2001 at 10.30pm Manic Street Preachers will release their new single, Ocean Spray, on 28th May - their first recorded song with lyrics by vocalist James Dean Bradfield. CD1 features new songs Groundhog Days and Just A Kid while CD2 features mixes by Medicine and Kinobe plus CD-rom extra footage of Ocean Spray live from Havana. The cassette features Little Trolls plus an Ellis Island SOund remix of Ocean Spray. The band are to be the subject of a special night on Channel 4 on 21 June. The Manics Night will feature the documentary "Our Manics In Havana", plus a repeat of "All Back To Mine" with James Dean Bradfield. Look out for the band also on Later With Jools Holland on Friday 11th May, repeated on 12th May. Fans can win tickets to the recording at the official website, www.manics.co.uk. Manics fans will be happy to know that the band's next live date is looming. They play the Dublin Heineken Festival on 4th May, their only other festival appearances this year being at the Reading/Leeds festival in August. A couple of additions have been made to the bill for Woofstock. London band Pushkin now play between Nar and Anweledig - 48F will still open the evening - and DJ sets before and between bands will be provided by members of Pep Le Pew, who did an amazing set last night at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach. North Wales' busiest band, Anweledig, have added yet more dates to their diary. Catch them live at: May 5th - Oakley Arms, Maentwrog May 6th - The Ring, Llanfrothen May 20th - The Llangollen, Bethesda June 1st - Labour Club, Rhondda July 19th- Gwyl y Bont, Pontypridd and of course at Woofstock on 16th May at Bangor University. Mclusky are going to Chicago in May to record their new album with Steve Albini - it should be out in the Autumn. The Duvals have some dates lined up in May and June to promote their new album, Beauty, which is due for release in June: May 9 - London, Poptones Radio 4 at Notting Hill Arts Club May 13 - Blackwood, Miners' Institute May 19 - London, Charing Cross Road New Barfly Club June 6 - Swansea, Subterrania June 7 - London, Dublin Castle, Camden June 13 - Northampton, Roadmenders June 14 - Cardiff, Sam's Bar This news was added on 24 April 2001 at 10.50pm Contrary to a message posted anonymously in the WBW guestbook, Big Leaves are not about to split up. According to the band's agents, Metropolis Music, Big Leaves are being courted by several American record labels, have three gigs this week (including one on Saturday 28 April at Barfly Cardiff) and will release a new EP next month. No details of the EP were available at the time of going to press, but watch this space for an imminent announcement. More Anweledig news. The band are playing at the Gwyl Conwy Festival on 23 June as part of a night entitled "Absolutely Braziliant". They will be joined by a Brazilian band and a band from Reading. This news comes direct from Tommy And The Chauffeur: Tommy and the Chauffeur. Tetra Splendour. Cubare. 26th April 2001. The Barfly. 7.30-11.00pm. £3.00 all inclusive package Damp Air. One terminal 3 bands. No depature lounge. No duty free. Limited space. No definite arrival time or destination. One Captain. No 'free' oxygen masks. One drinks cabinet. No pre-packed, warmed-up, slapped-down souffles. Beautiful stillls of previous flight disasters. www.tommyandthechauffeur.com This news was added on 24 April 2001 at 1.45pm Some news from Anweledig. Unfortunately their gig at Machynlleth Town Hall, scheduled for 11 May, has been cancelled due to the foot and mouth crisis. However, two new dates have been added to the tour schedule: 18 May – British Legion, Llanrwst 26 May – Ty Newydd, Sarn On 22 August the band head off to Brittany in their bus (which resembles that of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but that’s another story). This mini-tour lasts until 2 September and was organized by Jake from Bethesda. The band - to singer Ceri Cunnington’s amusement - are also set to appear on the Welsh news programme Heno on 2 May. More gig dates are due to be confirmed today – keep checking at anweledig.com for the latest news. This news was added on 24 April at 10.10am More Teflon Monkey tour dates, as announced by his record company, Placid Casual: 10 May - The Barfly Club, Cardiff 28 May - Gwyl Y Gelli Gandrill More Talkshow news: Talkshow now headline the Barfly@onefourfour on Thursday 10th May and not 30th April as previously stated. The full details are as follows: Bands: Talkshow plus support from El Cid, Jason Heart. Venue: Barfly@onefourfour, 144 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2. Date: Thursday 10th May, 2001. Doors 8pm. Entry: £6, £5 advance, £4 concessions (flyer, ub40, NUS). Talkshow also play the Barfly, Cardiff on May 14th. Bands: Talkshow plus support from Rita. Venue: Barfly Cardiff, Kingsway, Cardiff. Date: Monday 14th May, 2001. Doors 8pm. Murry The Hump are off on tour with Deacon Blue. Dates as follows: May 10 - Liverpool Royal Court May 12 - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall May 13 - Norwich UEA May 14 - Cambridge Corn Exchange May 16 - Portsmouth Guildhall May 17 - London Royal Albert Hall May 18 - Bristol Colston Hall May 20 - Manchester Apollo May 21 - Birmingham Symphony Hall May 22 - Newcastle City Hall May 24 - Dundee Caird Hall May 25 - Edinburgh Playhouse May 26 - Glasgow Clyde Auditorium This news was added on 21 April at 4.30pm Pep Le Pew play the Celtic Pride, Swansea, on Friday 27 April. For more info about the band visit their website: smokinshark.com. Fantastic Super Foofs play their first Cardiff gig at the Barfly on 17 May. For more details visit their website: www.foofs.com. This news was added on 18 April 2001 at 9.30pm This news comes from Boobytrap records, via the SFA Yahoo Group: Following on from a successful NME "On" night gig in London the other week, Derrero and Brave Captain are going on their first European tour this week. Here are the dates: April 20th - Munich Atomic Café 21st - Frankfurt Nachtleben 22nd - Amsterdam Paradiso 23rd - Hamburg logo 25th - Oslo So What 26th - Stockholm KGB 27th - Copenhagen Vega On Thursday 19th April, Zabrinski will have their debut session broadcast on John Peel's show on Radio 1. Zabrinski have gigs confirmed too: 2nd May - Neath Gwyn Hall 15th May - Barfly Monarch, London 17th May - Swansea - Patty Pavilion with Gorky's Zycotic Mynci 31st May - Le Pub - Newport with El Goodo 4th June - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff with El Goodo El Goodo are also set to be busy with a mini-mini-mini tour with Cubare (a future Boobytrap band), and the dates are: April Wednesday 18th - Bristol Louisiana Thursday 19th - Wrexham Central Station Saturday 20th - Aberystwyth Coops Stiff Kittens The Stiff Kittens 2001 tour kicks of with these dates: 20 May - TA'S Blackwood 26 May – Yorkhouse, Minehead 28 May – Prince of Wales, Ross On Wye Talkshow Forthcoming Talkshow dates: 22nd April - The Pop Factory, Porth, Rhondda - Talkshow plus support from Squeezebox, L.C., Rita. Doors 4pm. Entrance £2.00 30th April - Barfly@onefourfour, 144 Charing Cross Rd, London. Talkshow plus other acts to be confirmed. Doors 8pm. Entrance £6.00 (£5 advance or £4 with flyer) Other Talkshow news Talkshow play the Avanti TV studio, The Pop Factory, on Sunday 22nd April 2001. The company are developing the premises into a live venue and, due to the band's huge following, they've asked Talkshow to headline the inaugural gig. The event runs from 4pm to 10pm and Talkshow take to the stage around 8. In fact, it's the same stage that the Stereophonics used for their press conference to announce their Chepstow and Donnington gigs! The band's website is again attracting record numbers of visitors - during March the site received 31,642 hits with 2,069 individual visits! Check it out for yourself at www.talkshow.com The release date for the band’s second single on Complete Control Music has been set for June 4th 2001. The CD will contain the tracks 'Gas Mark 9', 'This Side of Silence' and 'Modern Girl'. Talkshow will launch the single at the Interactive City Event in Cardiff on Sunday June 3rd when they play Sam's Bar in St. Mary Street, Cardiff. Brechdan Tywod This Welsh/English language fanzine is about to strike out with its 7th and 8th issues, both of which promise to be big and bouncy and full of fabbo stuff. Visit their website here - here’s a translation of what it says there about the latest issues, for those of you who don’t understand Welsh: "Issues 7 and 8 of Brechdan Tywod (Sand Sandwich) are on their way soon… BT#7 is going to be a special "Art or Arse?" issue, there won’t be any words in it at all, nothing but pictures, images and graphics. It will therefore be completely international! Order a copy by sending £1.50 to Brechdan Tywod, 8 Stryd Tywysog Leopold, Cardiff CF24 OHT, Wales. Brechdan Tywod #8 will be a bumper issue, with a compilation CD including Pep Le Pew, Recall, BomBoomBomb, Yr Dim Byd, Un Caddie Renverse Dans L’Herb (Barcelona) and The Guy Who Invented Fire (England). Interviews with Datblygu, Pep Le Pew, Un Caddie Renverse Dans L’Herb, Ectogram, Jenny & The Bodybags. Watch the BT website for further details..." This news was added on 17 April 2001 at 11.05am Super Furry Animals have announced details of their fifth studio album, Rings Around The World, which will be released simultaneously on DVD. Rings Around The World will be released on 16th July 2001 on Epic Records, and will be Super Furry Animals' first release on their new label. Track listing for the album is as follows: Alternate Route To Vulcan Street Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Drawing) Rings Around The World Receptacle For The Respectable [A] Touch Sensitive Miniature Shoot Doris Day No Sympathy Juxtapozed With U It's Not The End Of The World? Presidential Suite Run! Christian, Run! Fragile Happiness A running order has not yet been finalised. Other musicians guesting on the album include Paul McCartney and John Cale, and Sean O'Hagan and Marcus Holdaway of The High Llamas has contributed string arrangements to certain tracks on the album. The first single from the album will be released on 2 July - Juxtapozed With U - and will appear on CD, cassette and 12" with two brand new songs - Tradewinds and Happiness Is A Worn Pun. All tracks were produced by Chris Shaw and Super Furry Animals and recorded over a period of seven months at Monnow Valley Studios, Monmouth, and Bearsville Studios, Woodstock. All tracks were mixed at Metropolis Studios, London. Rings Around The World was mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, although the DVD will also carry the normal stereo mix. For the project Super Furry Animals commissioned twelve different films exclusive to the DVD format to accompany each track. The filmmakers include Martin McCarthy, Darren Watkins, Sean Hillen, Pete Fowler, Dylan Jones, Neil McFarlane, Peter Gray, the Dogme collective, 4K, Fukme99 and The Ministry Of Truth. The DVD will also carry remixes of each track as well as bonus tracks and films. In addition, the DVD will also carry a large 'extras' section containing previously unreleased footage, and a cd-rom section which will link directly to a new Rings Around The World website. The DVD will be shown at cinemas in towns across the UK on the Sunday night before release. More details to follow. Other news added today Acid Casuals are back after a long absence. On Saturday 21 April they play the first of a number of gigs, this first one at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff. Guest DJs include Gruff Rhys, Guto Pryce and Cian Ciaran. Further dates to be announced. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Teflon Monkey are off on a short Welsh tour. Dates as follows: May 16th - Wrexham - Yales Club May 17th - Swansea - Patti Pavilion May 18th - Pontypriddy - Muni Arts Centre May 19th - Narberth - Queen's Hall For more Gorky's information visit their website: www.gorkys.com. This news was added on 13 April 2001 at 9.55pm This report on Super Furry Animals from the SFANews Yahoogroup: NMEINDIE.COM was privileged to be present at a playback of the new Super Furries record this week. 'Rings Around The World' is the band's first LP for Sony, but any worries that signing to a major would dilute their sound can stop worrying. It's AMAZING. Look out for a more extensive look at the record we're already calling a 'Pet Sounds' for the 21st century. Seriously. You won't believe your ears. This news was added on 13 April 2001 at 12.40pm Tommy And The Chauffeur play the new Barfly venue in Cardiff on 26 April with Tetra Splendour and Cubare. Doc Savage have a secret gig lined up at Newport Riverside on Tuesday 17th April, with Dopamine in support. The band, along with 8.4%, also support UK Subs at The Aneurin, Penyrheol, Caerphilly on Friday 27 April. Doors open at 7pm, first band on at 8pm, tickets cost £5 in advance (tel. 02920 860 490) and a limited number of tickets will be available on the door for £6 each. Bands wishing to play at the new Barfly club in Cardiff should send demos to Jonathan Wing, Barfly Cardiff, Ty Cefn, Rectory Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QL. Email enquiries should go to jonathan.wing@barflyclub.com. The Crocketts are playing at the venue tonight (13th April) and Murry The Hump, who in May are due to release their debut album, are tomorrow night's headliners. This news was added on 6 April 2001 at 2.50pm A recent announcement about Super Furry Animals' next album has turned out to be a hoax. Someone claiming to be Gruff Rhys posted a message on an internet guest book which said that the next album, TextMessaging Is Killing The Pub Quiz As We Know It, is being released on 24th August 2001. The message went on to give a track listing for the album. However, after making a quick check with the Furries' press officer, Welsh Bands Weekly can confirm that the message is "not genuine at all". This news was added on 5 April 2001 at 1.20pm Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews has told a fan the release date for the band's fourth album, and has said that the band will be on tour in the autumn. Cerys told the fan, catatoniawales@aol.com, that the new album is due for release on 4th June and that the band will do a UK tour in August or September. Welsh Bands Weekly is attempting to get the story verified by the band's official spokesperson and we will report back when we have more details. Anweledig's recent gig in Cardiff was met by double disaster. According to a message from the band posted in the guest book at their website, not only did they have their laptop stolen while in Cardiff, but their tour bus was also vandalised, with a 'nameless person from Big Leaves' defacating on Dan Dan The Bongo Man's coat and pissing on singer Ceri Cunnington's clothes. To read the band's original message (in Welsh) click here In the meantime, Anweledig have several gigs lined up over the next couple of months - check the band's website for further details. This news was added on 4 April 2001 at 5.40pm Llwybr Llaethog have released their sixth album, Stwff, on Neud Nid Deud. The album is a mixture of musical styles ranging from Dub through Techno to Orchestral. To order a copy, visit Fitamin Un's website: http://uk.oocities.com/beatboxtaffy/index.html. Fitamin Un also sell various recordings by other Welsh bands including Tystion, Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front, DJ Lambchop, Melys and Brave Captain. Llwybr Llaethog, Pepe Le Pew, DJ Mint Source and DJ Dave Grooveslave have a gig coming up on 28 April 2001 at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, price £4. The club is open from 10pm to 2am. Llwybr Llaethog have been commissioned to remix new Super Furry Animals tracks for their next album. The remix(es) will appear on the DVD version of the Furries' new album. Fitamin Un will be releasing a new single by Pepe Le Pew in May. The Welsh-language hip hop band have been causing a bit of a stir at Welsh Bands Weekly, and we're hoping to have an interview with the band in Issue 10. As well as gigging the band are busy working on their debut album, to be released some time this year. If it's anything like the demo we've recently received, this band are destined to go far... Catatonia play the Unison Campaign For A Living Wage gig on 28th April 2001 at Manchester Evening News Arena. Tickets cost £10 in advance and are available by credit card on any of these numbers: 0161 930 8000, 0115 912 9000, 0161 832 1111 or in person at the Manchester Evening News Arena box office. Older news Anweledig released their second album, Gweld Y Llun, on 19 March. Catch the band on tour around Wales over the next couple of months, plus headlining Welsh Bands Weekly's Woofstock charity event at Bangor Uni's Amser/Time venue on 16 May 2001. To join the band's email discussion group, send an email to anweledig-subscribe@yahoogorups.com. For up to the minute news on Anweledig, visit their website, which is growing hourly! www.anweledig.com Home