Super Furry Animals return to re-open the door into their world of ageless, multicolour melody and offbeat phantasia, surprising fans by announcing Six Supacabra Britain & Ireland Tour Dates, opening at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on Wednesday 6th May 2026.
Tickets priced from €50.70 including booking fee & €1.50 restoration levy on sale with Ticketmaster Ireland, but are now completely sold out.
Leaping into their enduring, endorphin-stirring nine-album songbook, with a singular mission to bring unalloyed joy to the hearts of the Furry family, the announcement brings to an end an almost decade-long hiatus with further dates in Glasgow, Llandudno, Manchester and London all confirmed.
Tempering the irresistible tug towards nostalgia, Super Furry Animals will release a cut of previously unreleased music on the eve of tickets going on sale, with BBC 6 Music’s Huw Stephens premiering Rock ‘N’ Roll Flu this Thu 2 October 2025 at 5pm.
Originally released on Mon 22 August 2005, the Furries’ third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft is to be reissued on double vinyl, 2CDs, including the 22-track bonus CD, Kiss Me With Apocalypse and digital formats on Fri 24 October 2025 via the Cardiff-based independent label, Strangetown Records. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led Rock ‘N’ ‘Roll Flu’, plus the distorted space-jam of ‘Cae Marw’, the band’s deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of ‘Bedw Arian’.
The album followed six, previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, offering era-crystalising singles, ‘God! Show Me Magic’ and ‘Hometown Unicorn’, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other 90’s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, ‘The International Language of Screaming’. The next decade saw the release of the first Top 20-charting, Welsh language album, Mwng (2000), followed by further experimentation and commercial success with Rings Around The World (2001) and Phantom Power (2003).
Love Kraft’s sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band’s stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies.
While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album (where four fifths of the band undertook lessons in Portuguese and the legendary Abbey Road 1968-built mixing desk, EMI TG12345 took up residence), involving another two weeks under the sun, Love Kraft’s story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album’s songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first ‘best of…’ package, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce).
Giving up only one single in Lazer Beam, backed on release with perhaps a definitive, lost ‘classic Furries’ track, ‘Sunny Seville’ and the CD-only ‘Colonise the Moon’ (both featured amongst the reissue’s extensive track listing), Super Furry Animals remained true to Love Kraft’s easy-going, love-lorn concept. Accompanied by a video directed by Welsh filmmaking duo, Palumbo & Coch, the single reached the UK Singles Chart Top 30, the promotional trail cooling thereafter, saved for an extensive tour of Europe, North America and the Far East. That trip included stadium gigs opening for Oasis in the UK, a coast-to-coast US tour backed by the upcoming Caribou and festivals in Istanbul, Japan and Taiwan.
