Gruff Rhys @ Grove Newcastle

Portions For Foxes presents:

GRUFF RHYS

@ The Grove Newcastle
1 St Michael's Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 1QU

Friday 17th May 2024

As part of Marrapalooza Festival 2024

www.marrapalooza.co.uk 

"[Gruff Rhys is]firmly established as one of the UK’s finest songwriters" Music Ohm 9/10

"It’s hard to recall a set of songs on which Rhys’s low-key radicalism and unquenchable sense of wonder have coexisted with such ease"

Uncut 8/10

We are delighted to welcome Gruff Rhys as headliner of this year's Marrapalooza festival of Grassroots Music in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle.

One of the great pop eccentrics of his generation, Gruff Rhys emerged in the mid-'90s as the frontman for the Welsh neo-psychedelic quintet Super Furry Animals. Debuting as impish guitar pranksters, SFA quickly developed an appetite for adventure, a sensibility maintained in his work outside the band. Rhys stepped out on SFA while the group was still active, releasing the Welsh-language solo debut Yr Atal Genhedlaeth in 2005 and teaming up with Boom Bip for the electro-pop duo Neon Neon, whose 2008 album Stainless Style earned wide acclaim. Once Super Furry Animals retired in 2010, Rhys pursued a number of ambitious creative endeavors, ranging from the 2014 multi-media project American Interior and the orchestral 2018 LP Babelsberg to Seeking New Gods, a myth-making exercise about a volcano mixed by Mario Caldato, Jr. of Beastie Boys fame.