Gruff Rhys Announces New Album By Building 'Hotel Shampoo'
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Written by Dave Ball
Gruff Rhys has always been a little eccentric so his inventive approach to promoting his new solo album should come as no surprise.
'Hotel Shampoo’ will be released on 14th February 2011 and will be Gruff's third solo record. The debut single, ‘Shark Ridden Waters’, was released late last month and has been generally well received by fans. It’s video, featuring French actress Roxanne Mesquida, is described by Gruff’s Youtube channel as ‘depicting a distracted man lost in a world of social networking’ and the light, bouncy pop and distinctive vocals maintain the sound delivered by Gruff’s previous solo work as well as his Super Furry Animals material.
The album title comes from a habit developed in SFA’s early touring days of collecting various freebies while touring the world. On watching "a particularly bad episode of Casualty" Gruff decided that the large collection of soaps, shampoos and various other odds and ends from all corners of the Globe should be put to some use and decided to build himself a ‘Hotel Shampoo’. Now, 15 years on, Gruff has accumulated a sufficient amount of material and the hotel was ready to be built.
You can watch the two-day building of Gruff's ‘Hotel Shampoo’ below....and yes he does sleep in it on the final day!
To support the release of new album 'Hotel Shampoo', Gruff Rhys begins a tour of intimate venues on 13th November in Galway.
Track-listing:
Shark Ridden Waters
Honey All Over
Sensations In The Dark
Vitamin K
Take A Sentence
Conservation Conversation
Sophie Softly
Christopher Columbus
Space Dust
At The Heart Of Love
Patterns Of Power
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
Rubble Rubble
Ahead of the release of 'Hotel Shampoo', Gruff will be setting sail on a voyage of small, stripped back UK and European dates. His various ports of call are listed below.
November 2010
10th Teater Grob, Copenhagen
13th Town Hall Theatre, Galway
14th The Empire, Belfast
15th Sugar Club, Dublin
22nd Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
23rd Vic Bar, Art School, Glasgow
26th Toynbee Studios, London
29th Point Ephermere, Paris
30th Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
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