Super Furry Animals Begin Reunion Tour with Dublin Show, Their First in a Decade

At Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre tonight, Super Furry Animals played their first concert in a decade. The show kicks off a tour announced last fall, and it arrives after a stretch where the members never exactly drifted apart, they just funneled their energy into other things.

Gruff Rhys released a string of solo records. The other four, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce, Cian Ciaran, and Dafydd Ieuan, formed Das Koolies and proved they still had something to say as a unit. A BBC6 radio session earlier this week, not yet broadcast, offered a quiet prelude. But the stage in Ireland was the real reintroduction.

Super Furry Animals were always too restless to be boxed into Britpop, and their catalog holds up without the era’s baggage. A reunion could have felt like a museum piece, yet the band’s recent creative lives make this feel more like a conversation resuming mid-sentence, not a dusty tape rewind.

The tour will continue across the UK and Europe. For now, Dublin stands as the moment a band stepped back from a decade’s pause without needing to explain themselves.