The Pop Corporation

Welsh music fans and Super Furry completists rejoice! The 1992 LP, Hei Vidal! from Ffa Coffi Pawb is getting reissued so you can have a lovely copy on vinyl.

Formed in Bethesda in 1986 by sixteen year old friends Gruff Rhys and Rhodri Puw, this is the high watermark of the band’s work.

You’ll be able to hear the beginnings of the SFA fondness for ’70s power-pop, as well as shoegaze and jangly good stuff.

This music has been out of print for ages, thanks to signing them away to some publisher who vanished off the face of the planet, apart from a comp.

To shorten a complicated tale, the mess has been untangled and now, you can get your paws on it and that’s great news!

Gruff Rhys on Hei Vidal! “We made the record in our early 20s and it was a dream-pop distillation of our early 1970’s Glam, power-pop & Motorik obsessions – combined no doubt by our devotion to shoe gazing contemporaries from the Creation label, American college rock and our heroes of the Welsh language underground like Datblygu, John Cale and Y Cyrff. The nonsensical album title is a quote from the song Colli’r Goriad and the Vidal in question perhaps a hallucinated amalgamation of Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon; both of which were omnipresent personalities on early 90’s TV, one as a pundit the other a seemingly rolling TV shampoo advert.”

You probably know this already but in case you don’t, Ffa Coffi Pawb is a funny name because in Welsh, it meams Everybody’s Coffee Beans, but phonetically, it sounds like Fuck Off Everybody.

If you need more info, go to ffacoffipawb.com okay?

28th July. Limited to 1,000 copies. Don’t hang around.