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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Dave Simpson

Gruff Rhys: ‘We sold the Super Furry Animals tank to Don Henley from the Eagles’

Gruff Rhys holding an ice-cream atop a hill on an overcast day
‘I’m surprised I’ve made so many English-language albums’ … Gruff Rhys. Photograph: Mark James

Noel Gallagher recently stated that Super Furry Animals were the best band to come out of Wales. Do you have any wild stories from the 90s involving Oasis or other Creation Records’ bands? RobJ1982
Plenty of wild stories! We were in an incredible situation, where we grew up listening to records on Creation as teenagers and then got signed by the label. I pinched myself many times. Oasis took us on tour and were generally really warm and generous to us. We had front row seats for some of the madness.

When we played the Etihad Stadium with them, they generously gave us the Manchester City home dressing room. One of our guitar techs who supports a rival team claimed to have left tiny messages for the City players all over it – the lockers, the showers, everything. I can only imagine the scenes when they came face to face with all these sarky comments.

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