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Old 10-07-2005, 05:30 PM   #4
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Super Furry Animals there last week in Dublin. They have a large projector screen at the back of the stage which shows animations and other stuff during their songs.

At this gig, when the lights went out, the screen showed a blurry camera image of one of them in the SFA golf cart with a trumpet fanfare playing, in his luminescent overalls. Showed him driving along and picking up the other members of the band in various situations, like jumping out of trees, out of phone boxes etc. until they were all on there, two inside and three hanging off the back.

Then the A-Team music came on, and there was like a montage of speeded up clips of them driving around Dublin, finishing with them coming round the corner to the alleyway, through the back entrance into the venue.

Then they came out on stage in front of us in the golf cart, all jumped off and saluted the fans in their luminescent overalls.

The crowd was loving it. It was madness. Then they bust into the gig.

They finished by playing The Man Don't Give A Fuck, over-layed by a Bill Hicks soundbyte, going into one of their techno noodly dance beats. They drove off again in the golf cart, then the projector showed them driving up a ramp into a big truck out the back of the venue, with the door closed behind them.

Then they played a little farewell video, little clips of each band member with a 70s TV show style credit arrangement, where it'll pause and have like GRUFF 'G-UNIT' RHYS beside him in some comedy situation.

DId that for the whole band, production crew, road crew etc. then finished with AND YOU, THE PEOPLE OF DUBLIN and then played a sped up montage of Dublin obviously filmed early that day, of sights and people around the city.

They did something similar at Oxegen, just without the intro video. They started then with the electronica intro to "Slow Life" which was brilliant, and Gruff Rhys sang it with a microphone pressed to the side of a gigantic head thing he was wearing.

I'll try to post some photographs of the Oxegen gig.

Also at Oxegen, Interpol finishing on PDA was a hair-raising experience. Simply perfect.
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