Super Furry Animals Release Wales Football Song Bing Bong
Friday, 13 May 2016
Written by Huw Baines
Super Furry Animals have released Bing Bong, their anthem for Wales’ Euro 2016 campaign and their first single since 2009.
The track, which you can hear below, was originally written prior to Euro 2004 in Portugal but subsequently shelved after Wales lost to Russia in a qualifying play-off.
“Bing Bong is a Welsh folk idiom that we have appropriated, but its pronunciation has been partly inspired by the sonic motif of the talking robot, Twiki, in the 1979-81 sci-fi series Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century,” Gruff Rhys said.
“When we got together initially the reason why we were there was to make a song for the EUROs, but as it was the first material we've made in seven years, we wanted it to be a Furrys song as well. We wanted to make sure the two ideas could co-exist - it being a Furrys and a football song in one. I think we managed it. It's not the most obvious song, but it kinda hits the nail on the head - it's got the chants, it's got the tempo changes like you get on the terraces, it's got a singalongability. You never know, but sometimes the most unlikely songs make it onto the terraces. We wanted to write a Furrys song and hope that it makes it to the tournament. It's like that White Stripes song, "Seven Nation Army" - they didn't write that as a football anthem!”
The Super Furries will support Manic Street Preachers, who have penned the official Wales Euro 2016 song, at Swansea’s Liberty Stadium on May 28 before a busy festival season. They’re currently inked in to appear at Festival No.6, Caught By The River Thames and Electric Picnic, among others.
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